We just learned about the Display - Refresh Rate.
Another part of the monitor is the Video Cable, or display cable.
This is one of the wires that comes out of the back of the monitor and goes to the computer.
The cable will send messages from the computer to the monitor to tell it what pictures to show on the screen.
If the computer is a laptop, then the monitor is connected right to the computer and it won't have a video cable outside the laptop.
Through the years since the monitors have gotten better at showing picturs, the cables have had to changes so they could keep up with the better pictures.
One of the first cables that was very popular was called the VGA cable, where VGA means Video Graphics Array.
This cable had 15 wires in it that the computer used to send the pictures that would go on the monitor.
Later on people wanted to make better pictures with the monitors so they came up with better cabels that could send more information faster to the monitor.
There are a few different types right now that people can get, but one of the most popular is called HDMI, which means High-Definition Multimedia Interface.
HDMI cables can come in different sizes like standard, mini and micro.
(from: wikipedia - vga connector)
(from: wikipedia - hdmi)
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