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(and of course, crt's didn't lend themselves to extreme miniaturisation or battery life, lcd's were chosen not for picture quality, but because they take up extremely little space and use extremely little power... if you don't need a backlight, remember that white leds weren't readily/cheaply available in the '90s, so a backlight meant a cold-cathode flourescent tube, which requires relatively bulky high voltage driving circuitry)