LED vs LCD monitors...any difference?

[MrMatt]

Hi, I'm upgrading my monitor, and am looking through the selection at newegg, and see that there are LED monitors as well as LCD...is there any difference in quality here? Monitor will be used for gaming, movies, etc.

 

[Zap]

"LED" monitors are LCD monitors. It just refers to a different type of backlight. Traditionally LCD monitors used cold cathodes for the backlight. Some new monitors use LED backlights for the LCD, thus are marketed as LED. There may be some benefits over cold cathodes such as lower power consumption and possibly better color gamut (depending on implementation).

 

[0roo0roo]

xbitlabs
led is just the backlight, it is not a mark of quality. you can find regular screens that are better or worse, you still have to research.

 

[RebateMonger]

LED backlights may also be more durable than fluorescent tubes.

 

[gsaldivar]

LED = longer lasting

 

[Blain]

LED LCD's are what the cool kids are running.

 

[corkyg]

LED also = less power consumption, and in a lappy, that = longer battery life.

 

[vailr]

Apple uses LED backlighting in all their current display products. It's free of the toxic mercury found in most of the other brands of LCD displays. For that reason alone, it's probably going to become more widely used.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

LED = less power consumption

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[C1]

There is another thing that no one is taking about. In Frys when I noted to the salesman how the floor monitors took awhile to get up to brightness from standby, he told me that was purposely implemented to warm up the twisted nematic. But once I got home, I noticed that the stupid florescent bulb I was using for lighting the room did the same. So there you have it. If you use power saving frequently (I use it to keep the hours on the CFL on my rare IPS LCD monitor down), you have to put up with CFLs getting up to full brightness after being turned off & cooled to ambient (a nuisance in photographic work). I wouldnt think that LED has such issue.

 

[corkyg]

C1 makes a good point. I replaced incandescant floods (6 of them) in my kitchen with flourescent floods, and it takes about 2-3 minutes for them to reach full brightness. That relates to CFLs.

 

[pukemon]

Since nobody else mentioned it, edge-lit LED-LCD displays tend to be a whole lot thinner than CFL LCD displays. It matters if you want to wall mount or are short of available desk space.