Luminus PhlatLight LED backlighting grabs a gold award
by Steven Kim 
posted May 16th 2008 at 12:41AM
No doubt, emissive displays like plasma and OLED get lots of oohs and ahs, but for right now, LCD dominates the market. With plasma moving to the niches and OLED still on the horizon, we're happy to see that innovation in LCD performance keeps on coming. No doubt the biggest innovation we saw last year was the introduction of LED backlighting. Fashion being what it is, though, Luminus Devices' PhlatLight technology -- which puts LEDs along the display edges as opposed to directly behind the panel -- makes it possible bring LED backlighting to increasingly thin cabinets. Personally, we'd go for a slightly thicker display to get HDR capability from our LEDs; but we're on the fringe like that. For its contribution to making thin, evenly backlit, energy efficient LCDs, Luminus will be given the Society of Information Display's Gold Award next week alongside two other gadgets familiar around these parts: the Apple iPhone and Sony XEL-1.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
HDpurist @ May 16th 2008 12:58AM
Luminous what? No need for this hot air LCD technology. What exists now and is king of HDTV is Pioneer Kuro. Nuff said.
Daniel @ May 16th 2008 12:30PM
plasma stll have have burn in issues htefore they cant be the king. i was looking forward to sed but i guess i will live with the oled.
img eL @ May 16th 2008 2:15AM
I can not let it go I'm massively upset about no VOOM!!! I guess that Sat DISH launch that went nuLL really F**k'D us up. We want VOOM back up as soon as a good sat fly for DISH! As for LED, Samung DLP LED is rocking. DISH have VOOM back up just in time for LASERVUE!