Originally Posted by hilldweller

I have to grin at "a long time ago" because it's only a few years since the first colour LCDs became available for laptops and they weren't very good.

The breakthrough came with TFT which means that every dot on your screen has a transistor next to it. That's around 1000 x 700 x 3 = 2 million transistors and if even one fails you end up with a tiny spot on the screen. It's a technological miracle.

Grab a magnifying glass and look closely at the coloured blocks, in between each one is a transistor to switch it on and off and they are all wired to connectors on the edge.

So there. But I don't know the TV you mention. We have just bought a Samsung 22" and the quality hits you in the face, they really have got LCDs right, now.