[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.

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 ...

JKL offers a broad range of replacement lights for LCD backlighting maintenance and refurbishment. The LCD lamp replacements offer an easy way to optimize maintenance costs. They include the lamp with ...

The technological revolution in light-emitting diode (LED) monitors took gaming by storm, producing thinner monitors with better graphics that use less energy. Now LED lights are branching out with ...

When LED backlighting first kicked off a couple of years back the technology was deployed in the same way as a cold cathode backlight -- the LEDs went behind the panel and illuminated the LCD. This ...

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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.

The Samsung UNES8000 series, the company's flagship model of LED-based LCD TV, delivers the company's best range of features in an LED TV, although it still doesn't have a full-array LED backlight.

Backlights are one of the most common failure points on LCD panels. Even though they usually say “no serviceable parts” on the back you might still be able to fix your monitor. Jared Bouck details the ...