After their recent introduction to the market LED monitors are the hot topic in the world of display technology. LED stands for light emitting diodes, which translates into images with very high brightness and color gamut.
At the same time, the LED monitor is an improvement over the LCD or liquid crystal display monitor. LED technology is in fact a subset of LCD, albeit an improvement thereof. Basically, an LED monitor is still LCD but with backlighting added.
No doubt, various TV and computer display manufacturers are scrambling to offer their own versions of the LED technology. Perhaps the best way to understand the LED LCD monitor is to compare it with a competing technology, the plasma that has amazing picture clarity and sharper blacks. In the pre-LED days, LCD made black tones actually look grey, but thanks to the LED innovation, LCD technology can now put this all behind.
The standard LED monitor, just like its parent, uses less power than the standard plasma display that only uses slightly less power when compared to the cathode ray tube or CRT technology. As such, the LED monitor is destined for greatness in an era of environmental awareness.
The Samsung LED monitor, or more specifically Samsung Syncmaster PX2370, displays what LED technology can accomplish. While plasma displays are still struggling to shed some weight, the Samsung monitor in questions is a tiny 16.5mm thick. After all, only LCD technology can rightfully claim complete scalability in size from the tiniest display to the bigger formats that used to be the plasma’s exclusive domain.
Meanwhile, the LG LED monitor can not be left out of the competition. The company fully exploits LED technology’s backlighting feature, by delivering picture quality that can be viewed with precision at any angle. Previously on LCD systems, images could get blurred when viewed from an angle. Well not anymore. A perfect example is LG’s E40 Series.
As with most flat screen displays in the market today, an LCD/LED television can be used as an LED computer monitor. All it takes is a cable to turn one’s television set into a computer display. This is especially recommended when someone is stuck with a notebook computer with a tiny screen. By connecting the notebook to the LED television, one can instantly enjoy editing PowerPoint presentations or even a challenging Microsoft Excel sheet. Those streaming movies and videos will also look more impressive when viewed from one’s LED TV rather than the notebook screen.
The LED monitor is certainly here to stay judging from its warm reception in the marketplace. It has certainly helped the LCD technology get over a few humps, such as picture quality. As with humans, the leanest of the bunch wins the race, and between a plasma and an LCD/LED monitor, guess which one still has weight issues to overcome.
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LED monitors are used extensively in the computer manufacturing industry, and can provide crisp images of fast moving objects, and darker blacks than LCD, or liquid crystal display monitors. LCD monitors are backlit by a single light source and use a liquid crystal display to produce the image. LEDs also use a liquid crystal display, but use a large number of LED to backlight the display. Because of this advantage, LED displays can produce images which are of a higher quality than LCD displays, and LED displays are beginning to rival high definition plasma television in image quality, in face so much that the two technologies could be indistinguishable to the average television aficionado.
Currently, LED technology is expensive, making LED monitors some of the more expensive monitors that you could buy. However, experts in the field of LED monitor technology will likely be able to decrease the price of LED monitors even further as new improvements are made. If you want a monitor larger than 40 inches, you will have to buy something else than an LED monitor, which currently max out at 40 inches. However, given the interest of crossing over LED technology to the television market, it is likely that much larger screens that support LED technology will be available in the future.
As we all want to decrease our carbon footprint, LED technology offers a decreased energy consumption, perhaps as much as 30 percent when compared to plasma, and likely the technology will improve and thus lead to even greater energy savings with later models. If you want to get an LED television today, models such as Samsung’s 40 inch HD LED television, cost around $1,500 plus tax, and these prices will most certainly decrease in years to come. If you want to use your HD LED television for a computer monitor, this can be easily accomplished as most new HD LED televisions are able to hand a variety of input.
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