LED backlighting is the wave of the future in all LCD's. It basically solves the one big problem inherent to LCD's - poor black level. The LED's are all individually lit depending on what's going on in the picture, so if there's an area of the picture that's supposed to be black, it really is black - the LED's simply stay turned off.
The extended YCC thing might forever be relegated to high-end sets (it's not really the kind of thing a lot of people would notice in a TV, unless they're major videophiles), but supposedly affordable LED-backlit panels are less than a year away and I predict this technology will be in mainstream sets starting in 2007 or 2008.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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LED backlighting is the wave of the future in all LCD's. It basically solves the one big problem inherent to LCD's - poor black level. The LED's are all individually lit depending on what's going on in the picture, so if there's an area of the picture that's supposed to be black, it really is black - the LED's simply stay turned off.
The extended YCC thing might forever be relegated to high-end sets (it's not really the kind of thing a lot of people would notice in a TV, unless they're major videophiles), but supposedly affordable LED-backlit panels are less than a year away and I predict this technology will be in mainstream sets starting in 2007 or 2008.