It’s relatively easy to find a dead LCD these days even without diving into a dumpster. Most of the time all that’s wrong is the backlighting mechanism went out, too, leaving a perfectly good LCD ...

For a bunch of years now, Philips has made some of its TVs with a feature called Ambilight. This feature used colored LEDs on the back of the TV to backlight the wall or surface behind the TV to match ...

New DIY site Do Design DIY has instructions on how to build a cool backlit photo lamp. This project is a simple table lamp that backlights and displays inkjet prints of ANY photo or art, bringing out ...

LCD televisions are a technological miracle, but if they have an annoying side it’s that some of them are a bit lacklustre when it comes to displaying black. [Mousa] has a solution, involving a small ...

Elvis Shida is a Tech/Hardware Writer from Kenya. He has been building PCs for a decade and is keenly interested in motherboards, monitors, and gaming TVs. When not building PCs or writing about ...

As lighting topologies have advanced, backlighting technologies have evolved to keep pace. At one time, cold-cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs) were the dominant technology for backlighting ...

Cupertino giant Apple is the first company to mass produce the commercially available keyboard backlighting in laptops back in 2003. In fact, these backlit technology makes it easier to type during ...

CCFL backlights are the most common backlight technology and are used in displays ranging from 5.7 to 23 in. or more diagonal. They can have from one to 24 or more lamps mounted along the edge of the ...

A typical LCD consists of liquid crystal material with transparent electrodes and polarizing filters. Applying voltage across the liquid crystal layer allows light to pass through in varying amounts.