LCD stands for LCD Liquid-crystal displays. A few years back, LCDs were the good friend of notebooks only but now LCD monitors are also being used with desktops and of course, CRT monitors are phasing out. If you want to buy a monitor at the moment, definitely go with an LCD. Hardware Secrets has published a tutorial where they’ve explained everything you need to know to make the right choice when buying a new LCD monitor.
“The monitor will centralize the image in the new resolution, reducing the image size and inserting a black frame around the image. For instance, if your LCD native resolution is 1280x960 and you decreased it to 800x600, this means there are 480 pixels left horizontally (1280 - 800) and 360 pixels left vertically (960 - 600). The image will be centralized and there will be 240 black pixels above and below the image and 180 blank pixels on the sides of the image.”