Recently Samsung have been chastised by the UK Advertising Standards Authority over their advertising for their LED TV's. In particular they were critiqued adversely for their "New generation" phraseology in the adverts where in fact the LED is just an alternative backlighting system.

With the new Sharp LE700 Preso range of LED backlit LCD panels about to come out it is a good time to introduce some of the technicalities of this new to Aquos technology.

Wheras the Samsung based LED use an edge based lighting system the Sharp panels are using a fully backlit system comprising an array of individual LED elements behind the LCD panel.

It’s been a long time between drinks for us and mainstream Televisions …

There was a glorious epoch in the early 2000s where we had on display simultaneously Plasma Televisions from Pioneer, Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC, and Marantz along with the first Generation Sharp Aquos consumer LCD panels.

When I unlocked the shop in the morning after they had been left on at night a blast of heated ozone laden air would surge by me onto Lygon St. These Plasma TVs were power hungry high voltage devices and vengefully dissipated their waste heat into the confined space of our store.