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LCD stands for liquid-crystal display, which refers to how the monitor works. Behind the screen, liquid crystals are sandwiched between two layers of glass and used to change the colors of pixels ...
A selection of LCD screens, including Samsung's 6 and 7 series, showing the differences between backlighting technologies. The screen on the right features a fluorescent tube backlight.
LCD TVs, also called "LED TVs," have been prevalent on the market since the early 2000s. The best ones feature technologies like quantum dots or local dimming to create a vibrant, 4K HDR image.
Traditional LED, QLED, or LCD TVs, in contrast, require a backlight to illuminate their pixels on the screen. OLED's ability to control the brightness of individual pixels leads to the superior ...
LED stands for light-emitting diode, a more advanced form of LCD display D3sign/Getty Images Light-emitting diode displays, or LED for short, are technically an offshoot of LCDs.
Are you confused between LCD, OLED, QLED, and miniLED display technologies? Here's a comprehensive guide to every display type.
Plasma TVs were popular in the early 2000s. Think of these as the granddaddies of today’s best OLED TVs. In a plasma TV, each pixel is lit individually, whereas the technology that succeeded it, LCD, ...
During the Consumer Electronics Show back in January, we noticed that some TV manufacturers were debuting LCD TVs with a new type of LED backlight, a direct-lit LED backlight. At the time we didn ...
The Present: LED I have some sad news: Plasma is dead. Right now, if you want a new plasma HDTV, your best bet is a Samsung screen manufactured in the last two years, but even Samsung is phasing ...
An LED monitor is also an LCD monitor since it also uses a liquid-crystal screen. However, this specific type of display where the backlight is composed of light-emitting diodes instead of ...
LCD and LED are the most popular 4K TVs on the market. Most of the TVs made by LG, Panasonic, Samsung and Sony use these types of display, ... If you're shopping for a new set and it's classified as ...