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What is the difference between an LCD and LED TV?

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Updated on January 05, 2016

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Answer: The main difference between LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) and LED (Light Emitting Diode) TVs lies in the backlighting technology: 1. LCD TVs: LCD TVs use a liquid crystal display panel to create images. These panels do not produce their own light but require a separate backlight source to illuminate the screen. In traditional LCD TVs, the backlight source is typically a Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp (CCFL), which is positioned behind the LCD panel. LCD TVs are known for their relatively thin profiles and energy-efficient operation. 2. LED TVs: LED TVs are a type of LCD TV that uses Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) as the backlight source instead of CCFLs. LED TVs can be further categorized into two types based on their backlighting technology: Edge-lit LED and Direct-lit LED. - Edge-lit LED TVs: In edge-lit LED TVs, the LEDs are positioned around the edges of the screen and emit light across the entire display panel. This design allows for thinner TV profiles and more even lighting but may result in less uniform brightness and potential light bleed along the edges. - Direct-lit LED TVs: In direct-lit LED TVs, the LEDs are positioned directly behind the LCD panel, providing more precise control over the backlighting. This design offers better contrast, deeper blacks, and more uniform brightness across the screen but may result in thicker TV profiles. Overall, LED TVs offer several advantages over traditional LCD TVs, including improved energy efficiency, better contrast ratios, and enhanced brightness and color accuracy. However, it's essential to consider factors such as backlighting technology, display quality, and features when choosing between LCD and LED TVs.
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Answer: In their screen technologies, generally most TVs are LED
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Answer: The term LED stands for Light Emitting Diodes. One of the differences that separates it from LCD TVs is that LCD TVs use fluorescent lights, while LEDs make use of diodes. These diodes are extremely small lights, which in turn helps to save space. In addition, the placement of these lights can also differ.
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Answer: The difference is in the backlights. While a standard LCD monitor uses fluorescent backlights, an LED monitor uses light-emitting diodes for backlights. LED monitors usually have superior picture quality, but they come in varying backlight configurations.
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Answer: Just the brightness, and graphics are higher quality on a LED TV.
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Answer: Liquid Crystal Display and Light Emitting Diode
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Answer: The fluorescent lights in an LCD TV are always behind the screen. On an LED TV, the light emitting diodes can be placed either behind the screen or around its edges. The difference in lights and in lighting placement has generally meant that LED TVs can be thinner than LCDs, although this is starting to change.
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Answer: A LCD tv has a liquid-crystal-display it uses liquid crystal to produce images. LEDs are light-emitting diodes. LED tv's are a type of LCD tv that use LED's to backlight the LCD display.
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Answer: LCD stands for “liquid crystal display” and technically, both LED and LCD TVs are liquid crystal displays. The basic technology is the same in that both television types have two layers of polarized glass through which the liquid crystals both block and pass light. So really, LED TVs are a subset of LCD TVs. LED, which stands for “light emitting diodes,” differs from general LCD TVs in that LCDs use fluorescent lights while LEDs use those light emitting diodes. Also, the placement of the lights on an LED TV can differ. The fluorescent lights in an LCD TV are always behind the screen. On an LED TV, the light emitting diodes can be placed either behind the screen or around its edges. The difference in lights and in lighting placement has generally meant that LED TVs can be thinner than LCDs, although this is starting to change. It has also meant that LED TVs run with greater energy efficiency and can provide a clearer, better picture than the general LCD TVs.
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Answer: LCD is an older type of set indicates liquid crystal display and the backlighting is usually florescent. where all the new sets use an array of bright LEDS to furnish the illumination of the set hence the term LED designation and each point of light is a Light Emitting Diode.
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Answer: Marketing confusion designed to charge you more. LED's provide the backlight. LCD's use non LED light sources. Nowadays, LCD's use LED's. There aren't LED's in the pixels. Needlessly confusing.
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Answer: LED is the newer version of a LCD providing energy savings and picture quality improvements.
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Answer: LCD is an older technology and LED is the replacement. It is a superior design and they are already onto to new forms of LED.
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Answer: A Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) TV uses a small number of white backlights (usually arranged at the edges of the TV) and a special LCD film. The LCD film can be set on a pixel-by-pixel basis to control the amount of backlight that comes though the LCD film at each pixel. A color filter is used such that instead of white light, varying amounts (as controlled with the LCD film) of red, green, and blue are passed through. A Light Emitting Diode (LED) TV uses the same LCD film as an LCD TV. Instead of having just a few white backlights situated at the edges, an LED TV uses a large number of small white LED backlights arranged in a 2D grid. The brightness of each individual backlight can be controlled. For dark or black parts of an image, in addition to blocking the amount of light passed through the pixels in the LCD film, the corresponding LED backlights can be dimmed or turned off. In brighter parts of the same image, the corresponding backlights can be kept fully on. Thus deeper blacks and better contrast ratios are associated with LED TVs. Additionally, the use of LED backlights typically results in less power consumption than LCD TVs.
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Answer: LCD is the older flat screen and LED are the newer flat screen tvs
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Answer: Liquid Crystal Display vs a Light Emanating Diode Display. Standard LCD are normally a hybrid and a predecessor to the LED which is lighter and more economical to manufacture.
Audio Plus
Answer: LED is just a different acronym for LCD. the difference is LED is newer and uses an array of small efficient light emitting diodes to light up the screen. LCD uses cold cathode florescent lamps for back lighting.
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Answer: An LCD uses electricity to excite a liquid that produces color and picture you see. An LED tv has many small lights that make picture on the screen.
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Answer: On a LCD television the fluorescent lighting is always placed behind the screen. Where on LED the light emitting diodes can be placed behind the screen or around the edges.
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Answer: An LED TV is an LCD TV. ... Ordinary LCD TVs use cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs) to provide backlighting, whereas LED TV's use an array of smaller, more efficient light emitting diodes (LEDs) to illuminate the screen, which gives them a few advantages.
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Answer: led creates less heat than plasma
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Answer: Liquid Crystal Display and Light Emitting Diode are 2 different technologies. LED is lighter and uses less energy to produce a picture. The quality of the LED tends to be better, as more enhancement features can be added without using too much energy.
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Answer: And LCD screen uses fluorescent tubes to emit the image whereas LED uses light emitting diodes. Both are very similar in quality.
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Answer: lcd-liquid crystal displsy led-light emitting diode
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Answer: The difference, is that an LED TV is not lit using fluorescent tubes, but rather a series of light emitting diodes (LEDs). LED are typically thinner in depth.
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Answer: liquid crystal display vs light emitting diodes
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Answer: As stated in the introduction, an LED TV is just a new generation of LCD TV. The difference, is that an LED TV is not lit using fluorescent tubes, but rather a series of light emitting diodes (LEDs). There are three basic types of LED televisions, and each has its own specific format.
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Answer: Flatter
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Answer: An LED TV is just a new generation of LCD TV. The difference, is that an LED TV is not lit using fluorescent tubes, but rather a series of light emitting diodes.
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Answer: L.C.D is liquid crystal display. L.E.D light emitting diode.
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Answer: Mainly the brightness
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Answer: Led tv is just the new generation of Led tv. The difference is that an led tv is not lit by floresent tubes but rather a series of light ommitting diodes. Lcd tvs there are 3 basic types all with there own formats
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