Raster Display Summary

Disadvantages

  • Requires screen-sized memory array

  • Discrete spatial sampling (pixels)

  • Moire patterns result when shadow-mask and dot-pitch frequencies are mismatched

  • Convergence (varying angles of approach distance of e-beam across CRT face)

  • Limit on practical size (< 40 inches)

  • Spurious X-ray radiation

  • Occupies a large volume

Advantages

  • Allows solids to be displayed

  • Leverages low-cost CRT H/W (TVs)

  • Whole Screen is constantly updated

  • Bright light-emitting display technology