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We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Are you old enough to remember Philips Ambilight? If not, it was a brilliant feature on some Philips TVs that cast a glow onto the wall behind ...

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 ...

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Elvis Shida is a Tech/Hardware Writer from Kenya. He has been building PCs for a decade and is keenly interested in motherboards, monitors, and gaming TVs. When not building PCs or writing about ...

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 ...

The backlight tech is just a concept for now, but it could lead to more detailed displays without the drawbacks of OLED. The backlight tech is just a concept for now, but it could lead to more ...

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Sony has announced a new “next-generation display system” based upon a “high density LED backlight” with individual control over the red, green and blue primary colors. The new display tech is being ...

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