They still have CRT monitors on the ship, lol...This was understandable in the first movie when LCDs were still in their infancy, but now you would expect to see more advanced technology in the future, somehow the characters don't even have smartphones, chat apps, social media, etc...
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CRTs are the best video display technology in terms of performance, and they are also very long lasting and relatively easy to work on. The one I'm using right now to read this forum has been on pretty much all day, every day, since it was made in 2004. I've had to replace the electrolytic capacitors and resolder some joints a few times over the years, but that's not hard to do.
"This was understandable in the first movie when LCDs were still in their infancy, but now you would expect to see more advanced technology in the future"
Why would they use glorified calculator screens when they can use real monitors? The advantages that LCDs have over CRTs (less power consumption, less weight and bulk for a given screen size, feasible to make in screen sizes bigger than ~40") aren't important when you need relatively small monitors (20" size range) on an interstellar spaceship. With the massive amounts of energy that an interstellar spaceship would be able to produce, the extra power consumption and weight of CRT monitors would be negligible; a spit in the ocean.