While CCFL backlights typically provide white light, LED backlights may supply either white light or a mixture of red, green, and blue. LEDs emit light when biased in the forward direction.

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 ...

This article explains the latest steps taken by major notebook makers and LCD panel makers to make the 'green' benefits of LED backlight (LED BLU: Light Emitting Diode BackLight Unit) technology ...

Sony’s RGB Backlight Tech Explained Just in case you need a refresher, the main difference between OLED and LCD panels is that OLEDs are emissive. In other words, each OLED pixel emits its own ...

Turns out our local zombie-infested Apple store was already stocking yesterday's new Santa Rosa-based LED-backlit MacBook Pro -- and so naturally we had to do our own wholly unscientific comparison.

LumiLeds Lighting is attempting to alter the face of backlights used in LCDs with an LED-based technology the company claims overcomes the color, durability, size, and environmental limitations of ...

C-ya CCFL, hellllo LED Traditional LCDs use CCFLs, or cold-cathode florescent lamps, as their backlight. While cheap, they're not as energy efficient as LEDs.

LED backlights enable thinner flat-panel TVs and save energy, but until just recently, ... or maybe the difficulty in wall-mounting the first generation of heavier CCFL-backlit LCD TVs.

[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 i… ...

But keeping it switched on all the time took a toll, and eventually the CCFL backlight failed. Here’s how he replaced the CCFL back light with a strip of LED’s and revived the instrument.

Hospitals and surgery centers are increasingly implementing light emitting diode backlight technology in their operating rooms. This echoes the example of consumers, who have been flocking to replace ...