Liquid-crystal display televisions or LCD TVs use the technology from the same name (LCD), allowing the TVs to be much thinner therefore much lighter than cathode ray televisions or (CRT) that have a similar screen size. Because LCD TVs have much more convenient features than CRTs, and following the lowering of LCD TVs manufacturing costs, LCD TVs are now dominating the television market.
As a matter of fact, numbers showed that, in 2007, LCD TVs sales surpassed the number of CRTs sold worldwide, and since, the number of LCD TVs is accelerating even faster, even displacing its major competitor, plasma TVs and rear-projection TVs. Today, LCD TVs are the most widely manufactured and sold TV technology. Pushing all of the other technologies in more specific roles.