LED-backlit LCD

An LED-backlit LCD is a liquid-crystal display that uses LEDs for backlighting instead of traditional cold cathode fluorescent (CCFL) backlighting.^[1] LED-backlit displays use the same TFT LCD (thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display) technologies as CCFL-backlit LCDs, but offer a variety of advantages over them.

Televisions that use a combination of an LED backlight with an LCD panel are sometimes advertised as LED TVs, although they are not truly LED displays.^[1]^[2]

Backlit LCDs cannot achieve true blacks for pixels, unlike OLED and microLED displays. This is because even in the "off" state, black pixels still allow some light from the backlight through. Some LED-backlit LCDs use local dimming zones to increase contrast between bright and dim areas of the display, but this can result in a "blooming" or "halo" effect on dark pixels in or adjacent to an illuminated zone.^[3]

^ ^a ^b "LED vs LCD TV Comparison". Archived from the original on 20 May 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2009.
^ Practice, Advertising Standards Authority | Committee of Advertising. "Samsung Electronics (UK) Ltd". asa.org.uk.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ Shafer, Rob (11 June 2022). "What Is FALD Blooming Or Halo Effect?". DisplayNinja. Retrieved 13 February 2023.

[ledtele-1] "LED vs LCD TV Comparison". Archived from the original on 20 May 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2009.

[asa-2] Practice, Advertising Standards Authority | Committee of Advertising. "Samsung Electronics (UK) Ltd". asa.org.uk.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[3] Shafer, Rob (11 June 2022). "What Is FALD Blooming Or Halo Effect?". DisplayNinja. Retrieved 13 February 2023.

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