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 Active Matrix LCD's use three electronic switches for each picture element, each one for the colours red, green and blue, to maintain the field. The switch is usually a Thin Film Transistor -TFT- which isolates the pixel from the influence of adjacent pixels and so eliminates crosstalk. Addressing by transistors is advantageous because once a pixel is switched on, the field can be maintained by the switch until it is addressed once more. This allows faster LC material to be used, so that 'smearing' is no longer a problem. The production of TFTs is similar to those of semiconductor chips. The high number of rejections is the reason for the high production costs which make the price of those displays extremely unfavourable. (As an example, to produce a display with a resolution of 1024 x 768, 1024x768x3= 2, 36 million of transistors are requested). Obviously LCD's do not suffer from any distortion in linearity and geometry, as every pixel which is composed of the three colours red, green and blue, is situated in a fixed order.

According to the technology used you have to reckon on the following restrictions:

Missing Dots
Smearing when using fast changing videos and motion pictures
Irregular lightning from the backlight