All so-called LED TVs are really just LCD TVs that use LEDs for their backlight. This backlight creates the light that allows the LCD to create an image. However, there are multiple ways these LED ...

Maxim Integrated Products and National Semiconductor have developed LED driver families to address the key drawbacks in conventional white-LED backlighting for small LCD viewscreens. These drivers ...

[Lee Davison] acquired an Acer laptop that didn’t have a display anymore. He had enough parts on hand to add in an LCD panel and give it a CCFL backlight. But when he started looking for an inverter ...

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 ...

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, ...

CCFL backlights are the most common backlight technology and are used in displays ranging from 5.7 to 23 in. or more diagonal. They can have from one to 24 or more lamps mounted along the edge of the ...

AU Optronics Corp., the world’s third-largest maker of LCD screens, is aiming most of its research dollars at LED technology for its sharper contrasts and brighter colors, an executive at the company ...

You might have heard of LCD TVs and monitors, you might know what LEDs are, but how they relate to new TVs isn’t especially clear. Alongside their best OLED TVs, Samsung, LG, Sony, TCL, Hisense, and ...

Now that flat-panel LCD and plasma displays have all but pushed CRTs out of the market, manufacturers of the devices are under intense price competition. Picture quality, power consumption, and ...

Somewhere along the line, consumer display technology became an alphabet soup full of terms using the letters “LED.” In this succinct guide, we’ll provide a brief overview of common initialisms found ...