Why LED does not mean a better picture (Albuquerque Journal)
(Credit: Geoffrey Morrison)
Don’t listen to the hype. Ignore the commercials. Leer skeptically at the
salesman. There is no such thing as an LED TV, and “LED” doesn’t mean it’s any
better than other TVs.
LED is just a type of LCD, with strengths and weaknesses that make it better
in some ways, worse in others, and rarely worth its price premium over other
technologies.
The tech All LCDs have two basic parts: the LCD “glass” and the backlight. The
backlight creates all the light, while the LCD blocks some of that light to
create an image. An apt analogy is a piece of film in a projector, if you
remember those. The projector has a lamp creating lots of light, and the film
blocks some of that light to create the image.
Traditional LCDs use thin fluorescent tubes, called CCFLs, for the backlight.
The so-called LED TVs use light-emitting diodes instead. The LCD portion is
the same.
In _edge-lit_ LED LCDs, the LEDs are along the edges of the screen, firing
toward the center of the TV. These models tend to be extremely thin, the
thinnest of all flat panels.
With _backlit_ LED LCDs (sometimes called full-array), …
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