Japan’s Sanken Electric has developed a new type of cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) backlight for LCD TVs that’s as power-efficient as LED backlights but is supposedly up to 60% cheaper to ...

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 ...

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 Samsung Electronics has announced plans to halt production of traditional CCFL-backlit LCD TVs and focus on LED-backlit models, market observers believe the penetration rate of LED-backlit LCD TVs ...

Mitsubishi Electric yesterday showed a “Laser Backlight LCD TV” [JP] the company plans to release within this year. At the press conference in Tokyo, Mitsubishi showcased a 46-inch prototype TV with a ...

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BANGALORE (Reuters) - The fast-expanding market for LCD televisions and monitors is likely to light up the fortunes of some small and mid-sized chipmakers, which make chips used to backlight those ...

Samsung television sets with light emitting diode backlights, usually called LED TVs, have a number of benefits over traditional liquid crystal display (LCD) television sets. In fact, the benefits of ...

The limited transmittance of LCD panels can be observed as a waste of energy, leading to a limited brightness. Light leaking through LCD panels driven to black, can be observed as a poor black-level, ...

Advanced LCD technology has resulted in larger screens, wider viewing angles, and higher-quality video images. However, as LCD-TV screens grow bigger and brighter, they require more voltage and ...

The iW7011 LED driver for LCD TV backlighting from iWatt Inc. is a 6-channel LED driver with a built-in intelligent digital control engine, developed to reduce the bill of materials (BOM) cost and ...

Buying a TV has become as complicated as selecting the right mobile phone plan. Before large flat panel displays invaded our lives, the only real question when purchasing a CRT (cathode ray tube) TV ...