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 ...

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 ...

[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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Austriamicrosystems announced the AS3674 and AS3490 LED backlight drivers for smartphone LCD displays. These new LED drivers enable the industry's best application efficiency at a peak level of 90%, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...