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High-performance addressing

High-performance addressing (HPA) is a passive-matrix liquid-crystal display (LCD) technology commonly found on low-end laptop computers. Versions of HPA have been developed by both Hitachi and Sharp. HPA enables higher response rates and contrast, displaying up to 16-million colors; however, HPA displays lack the crispness that is found with an active-matrix display. HPA uses a technique called multiline addressing in which the incoming video signal is analyzed and the image is refreshed with a frequency as high as possible.

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High-performance addressing (HPA) is a passive-matrix liquid-crystal display (LCD) technology commonly found on low-end laptop computers. Versions of HPA have been developed by both Hitachi and Sharp.1 HPA enables higher response rates and contrast, displaying up to 16-million colors; however, HPA displays lack the crispness that is found with an active-matrix display.2 HPA uses a technique called multiline addressing in which the incoming video signal is analyzed and the image is refreshed with a frequency as high as possible.1

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  1. "Input/Output Systems and Peripheral Devices" (PDF). utcluj.ro. 2010-11-18. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2011-01-30.
  2. "High-Performance Addressing - HPA". Computerhope.com. Retrieved 2011-01-30.