Heck I don't know what IPS stands for either. TFT is thin film transistor though. Ask Jeeves I guess.

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Posted by Jason on February 09, 2021 at 23:56:52 EST in reply to Ah thanks. I couldn't help noticing Jason still didn't say what it stood for, although since he specified I little I would probably have been motivated enough to look it up from that point. (n/t) from Paleface.

Heck I don't know what IPS stands for either. TFT is thin film transistor though. Ask Jeeves I guess.

n/t

In Plane Switching, Zeta just said. Guess I'm taking his word for it. ; )

(Paleface)

(00:59:16 02/10/21 EST)

I find changing terms like this very annoying. When people/makers describe an “LED” screen they don’t mean that at all. It’s still just an TFT LCD screen lit with LED (instead of fluorescence) backlight. TFT is LCD with transistors in the screen instead of outboard. IPS is simply LCD again with some sort of variable grill that modulates the amount of backlight that each pixel gets. It helps a SHITLOAD but it’s still mainly LCD. OLED is in fact something else but aside from monochromatic screens on small devices I’m not very familiar with them. I don’t know if there are in fact 4K screens where the visuals are generated by OLED or if it’s just a OLED backlight instead of an LED backlight which to me would be a meaningless distinction not worth mentioning except when it comes to maybe power consumption.

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(13:13:14 02/10/21 EST)

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