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 ...

With the rapid increase of modern multimedia requirements, a wide range of display devices have become available. Thin-film-transistor liquid crystal displays (TFT-LCDs) are one of the most popular ...

LED-backlit LCDs are where TV’s future and present meet—they’re the best LCDs you’ve ever seen, but they’re not as stunning as OLED displays, which will one day dominate all. They’re not cheap, but ...

Eric Franklin led the CNET Tech team as Editorial Director. A 20-plus-year industry veteran, Eric began his tech journey testing computers in the CNET Labs. When not at work he can usually be found at ...

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 ...

Buying a TV has become as complicated as selecting the right mobile phone plan. Before large flat panel displays invaded our lives, the only real question when purchasing a CRT (cathode ray tube) TV ...

LCD televisions are a technological miracle, but if they have an annoying side it’s that some of them are a bit lacklustre when it comes to displaying black. [Mousa] has a solution, involving a small ...

After several decades of supremacy, CRT technology is now in the engineering graveyard—various flat-panel technologies blasted cathode ray tubes to display oblivion. Now that flat-panel displays are ...

TVs and monitors have a number of specifications, including resolution, size, refresh rate, and panel type. While resolution is the defining feature of display quality, the type of panel used is ...

We’ve been hearing more and more about new LCD display technologies and how Apple plans to adopt them in its devices this year. Follow along for an explainer on what mini-LED display tech is, why ...

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[Keith]’s cousin gave him a LCD with a noisy backlight. He decided to replace it with a series of high output LEDs. He sourced some locally in the form of cheap LED headlamps from an auto-parts store.