How does an LCD screen have such few connection points and still produce over 2 million pixels?

Question

How does an LCD screen have such few connection points and still produce over 2 million pixels?

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Answer 1

Basically, there’s this sort of chip that converts the data. Think of it like Google Translate, but instead of English to Spanish, it’s binary data to actual address lines.

Adding on, a display is basically a giant, perfectly square neighborhood. Each row and column is a street, and each pixel is like a three-home townhouse. Whenever a signal is sent, it’s like a mailman delivering something to that precise town house. Depending on the signal, or “mail”, the individual homes in the townhouse light up.

I, uh, hope that’s enough.