When LED backlighting first kicked off a couple of years back the technology was deployed in the same way as a cold cathode backlight -- the LEDs went behind the panel and illuminated the LCD. This ...

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Today Sony is announcing the development of a new type of TV display that uses individual RGB LEDs for its backlighting.

After the liquid crystal display (LCD) itself, the backlight is the most important element affecting quality and consistency of the displayed image. The LCD backlight can be one or more cold-cathode ...

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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 ...

The alphabet soup of TV terminology is overwhelming enough, but you might have seen a particularly confusing term pop up lately: mini-LED. LEDs are already tiny, so what exactly could the "mini" here ...

According to the SEAD (Super-efficient Equipment and Appliance Deployment) initiative, televisions are responsible for approximately 3 to 8% of global residential electricity consumption. An analysis ...

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