I have just received two press releases in the last 24 hours about LED TV technology and products. One is titled "LED-Backlit Televisions take the Lead in the US Flat-Panel TV Market," and continues: "In a historic shift that marks a permanent changing of the technological guard..." - you get the drift. The second press release starts: "Due to lower-than-expected consumer adoption of LED-backlit LCD TVs, TV makers have..." - to paraphrase - to find ways of making LED TVs cheaper because they can't sell enough and that means less bright and fatter LCD TVs. That's two rather different viewpoints about the health of the TV market.

Thinner edge-lit LED LCD TVs are apparently twice as expensive to make compared to older CCFL (fluorescent light) lit TVs, while back-lit LED TVs, although cheaper than side-lit, are still 40% dearer to make than CCFL ones. LED LCD TVs can cost less to run than CCFL and, if side-lit, can be very thin. They are also brighter than CCFL and last longer before fading.

Flat panel LCD TVs are basically larger monitors with a TV tuner built in, so this news kind of applies to computer monitors as well.

Anyway - do you know if your TV is an LED type?