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Summary: A monitor, or computer screen, displays the information coming from a computer so that the user can see and work with that data. Discover how monitors are similar to television screens with information from a certified computer technician in this free video on computer monitors.
Jonathan Ayres has more than 25 years of computer industry experience with all types of computer hardware and operating systems. Along with a Microsoft certification, he is also...read more
"I'm Jonathan Ayres with Network For Success and today we're going to talk about what is a monitor. Well, a monitor is a device that displays information on a screen. Monitors look just like TV sets except they're flat. Well, our new generations of TVs is flat also, they're known as LCDs or Plasmas. But our computer screens are what we commonly know as monitors. So for example, I have behind me right here a computer screen on a Macintosh computer and this is a monitor. What it does is it displays the information from the computer so that I can see it and work with it. Now also, right next to me I have another type of computer screen monitor. This one also displays the information and allows me to operate my computer."
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