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.

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 ...

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 ...

[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 inverter ...

San Jose, Calif. — Fairchild Semiconductor claims to introduce the industry's most integrated CCFL backlight inverter drive ICs for LCD backlight systems. The FAN7316 and FAN7317 devices are said to ...

LED backlighting for LCD displays is clearly a hot topic in display design these days (see LCD backlighting using 2-D LED dimming boosts TV performance and saves power” and Turning LED backlights into ...

Ok, so I have to admit firstly that I'm a huge fan of monitors with x-IPS panels. The color gamut/accuracy and the wide viewing angle are big Plusees for me, but the CCFL backlight is somewhat of an ...

Somewhere along the line, thin and light supplanted picture quality as the secondary priority for TV purchases; the primary consideration for most of us being price. Perhaps it was the memory of the ...

Back in the days before the widespread adoption of smartphones, Palm was the market leader in PDAs. If you had one of those you’ll probably remember taking notes by writing those funky “Graffiti” ...

Large-size TFT LCD panel (10-inch and larger) backlight units (BLUs) based on non-CCFL (cold cathode fluorescent lamps), such as LED (light emitting diode) and FFL (flat fluorescent lamp) backlighting ...