The invention relates to a DSTN display with electromagnetic protection, comprising an active cell and a passive cell, whereby the active cell comprises electrodes and the passive cell faces an observer of the display. On the receiver side, when the receive quality is above a threshold, which is necessitated to execute a successful decoding of the main channel, the main channel is reproduced. In some embodiments, the current limiting component comprises a varistor that is a current limiting material disposed within a resistive switching memory element in a nonvolatile resistive switching memory device.