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Cheap LCD TVs for China: Single-Sided Edge-Lit LED BLU

2010.03.01

Regular LCD TVs with edge-lit LED backlights have a strip of LEDs on all four sides. Slightly cheaper versions have just two strips. Now, to get these LED backlit LCD TVs even cheaper, new designs are using just a single strip of LEDs. Lower prices are absolutely critical if you are playing the LCD TV [...]

AU Optronics: 80% Monitor Panels with LED Backlight in 2012

2010.02.26

AU Optronics (AUO) is aggressively shifting to LED as a light source for LCD backlights for LCD monitors, LCD TVs and notebook PCs. AUO president and CEO LJ Chen stated 80% of LCD monitor panels will feature LED backlights in 2012, growing significantly from an expected 30% in 2010. The global average is forecasted to be [...]

Radiant Supply LED BLU for iPad

2010.02.03

According to the Chinese-language Economic Daily News and reported by DIGITIMES, Taiwan-based Radiant Opto-Electronics will be supplying 300,000 LED backlight units (BLUs) to be integrated into the LCD used in Apple’s iPad. If this report is correct, Radiant is building the LED BLUs for integration into the IPS LCD panels from LG Display. It isn’t [...]

CES 2010: Samsung 9000 Series “LED TV”

2010.01.08

I guess Samsung was a few days late with its 9000 series but the company is showing them off at CES 2010. The 9000 Series ultra-thin LCD TVs sporting direct-lit LED backlight technology from Samsung is really quite thin. But just being ultra-thin isn’t going to cut it since LG put ultra-thin, local dimming and [...]

LG LED LCD HDTV: LED, LED Plus, Full LED Slim

2010.01.07

That’s a lot of acronyms in the title but the one to remember is Full LED Slim. That’s the top-of-the-line LED technology from LG. At the low-end is simply LED, which is an edge-lit LED backlight without local dimming. That makes it slim and energy-efficient. Next up is LED Plus that adds local dimming to [...]

Vizio Plans 3-4 Million “LED TVs” in 2010

2009.12.22

BIG BET ON LED: Vizio is planning to ship 3-4 million LCD TVs with LED backlights in 2010. The company is betting big on “LED TVs” in 2010 with shipments at around just 100,000 in 2009. According to William Wang, CEO of Vizio, LED-backlit LCD TVs will comprise less than 5% of the company’s total [...]

HannStar Display Strengthen LED Supply

2009.12.14

HannStar Display will strengthen its LED supply chain by investing in Unity Opto Technology. The Taiwan-based LCD manufacturer will invest NT$1.21 billion (about US$37.5 million) to purchase 60% of the 50 million new shares that Unity Opto will be placing at NT$40.24 per share. Unity Opto is a LED packing company based in Taiwan and [...]

Delta Electronics to Stop CCFL Production

2009.12.03

Delta Electronics announced that it will stop production of CCFL in March 2010. CCFL continues to be the dominant light source for LCD backlights but the transition to LED is rapid. Delta has 31 CCFL production lines in Taoyuan, Taiwan and in Wujiang, China. LED backlights for LCD applications larger than 10 inches are expected [...]

LED Bright in 2010

2009.12.03

Everlight Electronics and Lite-On Technology are optimistic about LEDs in 2010. Everlight expects record revenues in the first quarter of 2010 while Lite-On plans to capture 20% of LED backlights for worldwide notebook PC applications in 2010; currently the company’s market share is 12%. Lite-On expects to ship 7.5 million LCD monitors with LED backlights [...]

Himax Infinity Color Technology

2009.12.03

Himax’s Infinity Color Technology (ICT) is an image processing technology that saves power for LCD TVs and LCD monitors. The backlight unit (BLU) of a LCD consumes the most energy and typical solutions have centered around content adaptive backlight control (CABC). CABC does indeed reduce power but also loses gray scales leading to lower quality [...]


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