Advanced backlighting technology using LED-based light sources and segmented control can create a vibrant viewing experience, while also significantly reducing power consumption in LCD TVs by as much ...

Nearly every LCD TV on the market has a problem: uniformity. Certain areas of the screen are going to be brighter than other areas. On dark scenes, this can be visible and sometimes distracting. OK, ...

As lighting topologies have advanced, backlighting technologies have evolved to keep pace. At one time, cold-cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs) were the dominant technology for backlighting ...

Once upon a time, the cathode ray tube was pretty much the only type of display you’d find in a consumer television. As the ...

Somewhere along the line, thin and light supplanted picture quality as the secondary priority for TV purchases; the primary consideration for most of us being price. Perhaps it was the memory of the ...

The emergence of LEDs bright enough to backlight large LCD displays promises to reshape power requirements in LCD TVs and monitors. Recent announcements and technology demonstrations provide further ...

To serve the steady migration from cold cathode florescent (CCFL) backlighting of LCD displays to LED backlights, TDK-Lambda has launched its new ALD Series of multi-output dc-dc backlight LED drivers ...

Most of the leading edge display technologies are pretty much synonymous with the Korean or Japanese electronics manufacturers. Not this time. Global Lighting Technologies, a Taiwanese company has ...

[Keith]’s cousin gave him a LCD with a noisy backlight. He decided to replace it with a series of high output LEDs. He sourced some locally in the form of cheap LED headlamps from an auto-parts store.

Last CES, we wondered where Samsung’s superb LED TVs were hiding. Here they are: Three new LED LCD series-all with uber-dark blacks, the high end with 240Hz, and ...