SED unfortunately died. The technology was promising and the quality of the display was outstanding. The accountants and marketing execs, I would say, saw to its demise
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Something to note about Samsung LED technology. As has already been stated, it is an LCD TV with LED
edge backlighting. Better than the traditional fluoro backlighting but still with some of the problems associated with edge lighting. More exciting and less widely known is the Sharp technology. Instead of using edge lighting they use multiple LEDs spread directly behind the LCD panel. I have not seen this yet but I expect it to be far superior to the Samsung offering.
For all you people out there still using a CRT TVs, high definition aside, it still has a far superior picture quality to LCDs (even with LED backlighting). Only Plasma can duplicate the brightness and contrast ratios that CRTs offer. Together with a much slower pixel response rate, inferior brightness, poor contrast and narrower viewing angles it has surprised me that LCD has made the inroads that it has as compared to plasma. Ahhh...the power of marketing.....
LCDs have lower (with LEDs much lower) power consumption than plasma. That is a significant feature in these
green conscious times.
Was that more that 2 cents worth
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