

A motherboard from the inside of a typical computer monitor. But the point is that there’s more going on behind the scenes to translate the digital input from your computer, DVD player, or game console into a visible image than you might initially realize. It isn’t as complicated as a conventional PC, of course-it doesn’t need to be. Even for a screen that doesn’t have any “smart” web-connected features, there’s quite a lot of electronics hiding inside the plastic housing, including processors, memory, and all the other stuff you’d generally expect to find in a computer.

First, you probably understand that your TV or computer monitor isn’t just a dumb screen connected to a video cable. Before we start, we need to cover a few basics.
