Instrumentation: Competing display technologies struggle for superiority: A comparison of display media, including light emitters and controllers and CRTs, reveals which are best for what

Competition among established and evolving display technologies is becoming ever more fierce as pressures mount to reduce display costs and bulk. And the increasing use of displays to interface humans and computers - displays that also emphasize digital address, linearity, and intrinsic memory, as well as low bulk - adds strong impetus for the technological refinement of large-display designs. In fact, unless the newer, easily integrated planar techniques can be improved beyond the present state of the art, both technically and economically, the inevitable result may be that displays will be the bulkiest and costliest components of terminal electronic apparatus.