• morrowind@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Are you talking about pwm? Most screens don’t refresh if nothing is changing

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      4 months ago

      This isn’t technically correct. CRT, LCD, and OLED displays are generally constantly refreshing the image. There are some niche exceptions like memory-in-pixel displays but they are few and far between. eInk displays are very different in this aspect because the display itself acts as a physical memory of the image because its mechanism of creating an image involves physical changes (pigmented particles moving closer or further away from the visible plane).