Turns out our local zombie-infested Apple store was already stocking yesterday's new Santa Rosa-based LED-backlit MacBook Pro-- and so naturally we had to do our own wholly unscientific comparison.

[Lee Davison] acquired an Acer laptop that didn’t have a display anymore. He had enough parts on hand to add in an LCD panel and give it a CCFL backlight. But when he started looking for an inverter ...

Backlighting in portable device displays has historically used cold cathode-fluorescent (CCFL) tubes which are difficult to power. The tubes run on alternating current (AC) and need a large initial ...

Available in STN and FSTN modes, the LM Series QVGA LCDs offer a white (LM4055) or red (LM4755) LED or a CCFL backlight. Options include negative voltage, temperature compensation, and a touchscreen.

Apple left a little mystery in their MacBook Pro announcement today, and being that this marks their first official release of an LED-backlit laptop we had to take out the guesswork and get ...

Consumer demand for higher audiovisual quality is driving the evolution of technologies behind LCD displays. Specifically, mini-LEDs, with their superior contrast and color gradation performance, have ...

Back in the days before the widespread adoption of smartphones, Palm was the market leader in PDAs. If you had one of those you’ll probably remember taking notes by writing those funky “Graffiti” ...

After several decades of supremacy, CRT technology is now in the engineering graveyard—various flat-panel technologies blasted cathode ray tubes to display oblivion. Now that flat-panel displays are ...

Somewhere along the line, thin and light supplanted picture quality as the secondary priority for TV purchases; the primary consideration for most of us being price. Perhaps it was the memory of the ...