LED backlit displays, easier to read off of?

[Cuffz]

Just wondered.

[Funkstar]

I assume you mean the LED backlight on LCDs as opposed to the cold cathode backlight?

As far as I was aware, the benefits are lower power consumption, thinner and lighter and possibly better colours (this last one I'm not sure about). I don't think they are easier to read, although I don't find LCDs difficult to read at all. Being in direct sunlight obviously changes this, but the form of backlighting won't change that, they are still backlit.

OLED and electronic paper are different because they aren't backlit. OLED produces it's own light from each pixel and e-paper uses the ambient light just like paper.

[Webby]

As Funkstar says LED backlit LCD panels offer lower power consumption, thinner screens and more uniform light distribution across the panel so you do not get lighter and darker areas on the screen like you can when using a CCFL backlight. Colour reproduction is really a factor of the panel technology rather than the backlight.

And it will not be easier to read unless your current monitor has an appalling backlight which means you have vast differences in brightness which are causing it to be difficult to read obviously if this is the case changing to any other monitor will alleviate the problem.

[Cuffz]

Interesting, are OLED displays as good as e-paper for reading?
I mean I can't solid reading for more than 10minutes on any lcd/etc display but can read a book for hours..

[Funkstar]

Probably not.

Neither technology is that mature at the moment, but e-paper is far more like reading actual paper than anything else out there. And every year it gets better. still doesn't beat a real book though

[Cuffz]

I hope OLED is significantly better than LCD at least.

[Giraffe]

I'm waiting for OLED to mature and drop a lot in price. It seems to be good but has a few issues, e.g. water can destroy the display so sealing is imprtant and isn't yet reliable.

I'd love a 26" monitor (nice big pixels) but the cost, power and already having a couple of spare monitors means that I can't justify it.

Be good when OLED TVs are affordable and bigger as well.

[Funkstar]

There used to be a problem with the compound that produced blue pixels, it only had a fraction of the lifetime of red and green. there has been a lot of work in this area recently and I think I read somewhere at least one set of researchers had made significant improvements. This should help push OLED into more applications.

However samsung has said the largest TV they can possibly produce at the moment is a 40" and that was a one off, commercial production is some years off yet and the very least.

OLED will become mainstream eventually, but in the mean time LCD will get better and better so it's a moving target as far as price, power consumption and picture quality is concerned

[Cuffz]

So long as its backlit, its hopeless for easy reading though, right?
No way would I buy OLED until its mainstream, I'm just dreaming about the future.

[Funkstar]

Well personally I have no problem with backlit screens.

If you have probles reading material on a screen where the light is being produced by the screen, OLED won't help you. e-paper is what you are after as it is a purely reflective technology.

[Cuffz]

I guess, thats here and now+ much cheaper. As a guess I think OLED will be better pixel lit versus backlighting systems... .