TFT display vs IPS display: What are the Differences, Features, Pros and Cons?(1)

TFT display vs IPS display: What are the Differences, Features, Pros and Cons (1)

What exactly TFT LCDs and IPS LCDs are, and what are their differences? You will also find out about their pros and cons?

Understanding TFT LCD

 TFT means Thin-Film-Translator. 

 It is the technology that is used in LCD or Liquid Crystal Display.

 It is also categorically referred to as active-matrix LCDs.

 It tells that these LCDs can hold back some pixels while using other pixels. 

So, the LCD will be using a very minimum amount of energy to function. TFT LCDs have capacitors and transistors. These are the two elements that play a key part in ensuring that the display monitor functions by using a very small amount of energy without running out of operation.

TFT LCD products are diversified, convenient and flexible, easy to maintain, update, upgrade, long service life, and many other characteristics

(1) High-resolution display

Display quality from the simplest monochrome character graphics to high resolution, high color fidelity, high brightness, high contrast, the high response speed of a variety of specifications of the video display models.

(2) The raw materials of the display screen have good environmental protection

No radiation, no scintillation, no harm to the user's health. In particular, the emergence of TFT LCD electronic books and periodicals will bring humans into the era of paperless office and paperless printing, triggering a revolution in the civilized way of human learning, dissemination, and recording.

(3) wide application range

It can be normally used in the temperature range from -20℃ to +50℃, and the temperature-hardened TFT LCD can operate at low temperatures up to -80 ℃. It can not only be used as a mobile terminal display, desktop terminal display but also can be used as a large screen projection TV, which is a full-size video display terminal with excellent performance.

(4) Mature manufacturing technology

The manufacturing technology has a high degree of automation and good characteristics of large-scale industrial production. TFT LCD industry technology mature, the mass production rate of more than 90%.

(5)TFT LCD is easy to be integrated and updated

It is a perfect combination of large-scale semiconductor integrated circuit technology and light source technology and has great potential for further development.

(6) good display screen effect

TFT LCD screen from the beginning of the use of flat glass plate, its display effect is flat right angles, let a person have a refreshing feeling. And LCDs are easier to achieve high resolution on small screens.

Understanding IPS Displays

IPS (In-Plane-Switching) which is a technology used to improve the viewing experience of the usual TFT displays. 

You can say that the IPS display is a more advanced version of the traditional TFT LCD module. 

However, the features of IPS displays are much more advanced and their applications are very much widespread. 

You should also know that the basic structure of the IPS LCD is the same as TFT LCD if you compare TFT LCD vs. IPS.

1）Quick and More Stable Response Time

As you know, TFT displays do have a very quick response time which is a plus point for it. The response time of an IPS LCD is much more consistent, stable, and quick than the TFT display that everyone used to use in the past. 

But, you will gauge the difference apparently by watching TFT and IPS screen side-by-side, the difference will become quite clear to you.

2）Viewing Angle is Much Wider

The main drawback of the TFT displays as figured above is the narrow-angle viewing experience. So, as IPS displays are an improved version of TFT displays the viewing angle of IPS LCDs is very much wide. It is a plus point in favor of IPS LCDs when you compare TFT vs IPS. With a TFT screen, you cannot watch an image from various angles without encountering halo effects, blurriness, or grayscale that will cause problems for your viewing.

It is one of the major and remarkable differences between IPS and TFT displays. The main reason for such a versatile and wonderful viewing angle of IPS display is the screen configuration which is widely set.

3）Greater Transmittance of Frequencies

Now, when you want to achieve wide-angle viewing with your display screen, you need to make sure it has a faster level of frequency transmittance. It is where IPS displays overtake TFT displays easily in the comparison because the IPS displays have a much faster and speedier transmittance of frequencies than the TFT displays.

Now the transmittance difference between TFT displays and IPS displays would be around 1ms vs. 25ms. You might think that the difference in milliseconds should not create much of a difference as far as the viewing experience is concerned. Yes, this difference cannot be gauged with a naked eye and you will find it difficult to decipher the difference.

However, when you view and an IPS display from a side-by-side angle and a TFT display from a similar angle, the difference will be quite evident in front of you. That is why those who want to avoid lagging in the screen during information sharing at a high speed; generally go for IPS displays. So, if you are someone who is looking to perform advanced applications on the monitor and want to have a wider viewing angle, then an IPS display is the perfect choice for you.

4）Better Representation and Reproduction of Colour

As you know, the basic structure of the IPS display and TFT displays are the same. So, it is quite obvious that an IPS display would use the same basic colors to create various shades with the pixels. However, there is a big difference with the way a TFT display would produce the colors and shade to an IPS display.

The major difference is in the way pixels get placed and the way they operate with electrodes. If you take the perspective of the TFT display, its pixels function perpendicularly once the pixels get activated with the help of the electrodes. It does help in creating sharp images.

But the images that IPS displays create are much more pristine and original than that of the TFT screen. IPS displays do this by making the pixels function in a parallel way. Because of such placing, the pixels can reflect light in a better way, and because of that, you get a better image within the display.

As the display screen made with IPS technology is mostly wide-set, it ensures that the aspect ratio of the screen would be wider. This ensures better visibility and a more realistic viewing experience with a stable effect.