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LED Back-Lighting – The Next Generation TV

Posted on January 31, 2010
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Ever since the first inception of televisions, they have come on leaps and bounds. You used to have to sit a meter away if you wanted to see anything at all and you only got black and white with the first models. Since then we have had stereo sound, widescreen, plasma, LCD and whole host of other developments to quench our thirst for technology.

The newest television innovation to make its way into the market is LED-lighting. LEDs are cropping up all over the place recently, in everything from car headlights to light-up crystal vases. Their popularity stems largely from their durability, their ability to create very pure light, and their energy efficiency. The old florescent lights have been the standard for a good while and have been able to supply TVs with light through many developments and generations, but the time has come for something better.

An increase in demand for faster, slicker and more defined pictures, coupled with a desire for everything to be super slim, goes some way to explain why LED lighting found its way into TVs. People want their phones, stereos and even vases slim line these days, and TVs are no different. Unlike traditional lighting, LEDs only need to be situated on the edges of the screen as a diffusion panel is used to spread the light over the whole screen evenly. What this means then is that many manufacturers are able to produce TVs only 2.5cm. They also provide greater dynamic contrast and offer a wider colour gamut.

The environmental friendliness of the LED lighting is another ones of its many benefits. The modern lighting method uses around 75% less energy than the conventional fluorescent lighting. What’s more, a lot less pollution is released into the atmosphere during the disposal process. Incredibly, tests have shown that the TVs are safer as well, being less vulnerable to damage from liquid or excess surges in power. That said, it’s not advised that you start resting your wine glasses on top of them, just in case.

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