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I'm looking at two Samsungs: [link] or [link]
Am I correct that the second one uses LCD with LED backlighting? Both get great reviews, so it's hard to choose.
I don't care about sound or number of inputs or smartness, since it will effectively be a monitor hooked directly into an a/v tuner that also has a Mac Mini connected to it.
Hmmm... Crutchfield describes my first link above as an "LED-LCD HDTV" with "LED edge backlight for high picture contrast", so maybe THAT's the technology you were referring to, Drew?
Traditionally, LCDs have been backlit with fluorescent tubes. LCDs backlit with LEDs are brighter, have more consistent colors(and blacker blacks), and don't use mercury. It also allows the TVs to be thinner.
So which (or do both?) of those two models do that?
Just the second, it looks like.
Maybe I'll ask Crutchfield. They have excellent customer service.
I chatted with someone at Crutchfield, and it's actually the first that's an LCD with LED backlighting. According to them, so-called "LED TVs" are actually just LCD TVs that use an LED backlight instead of the standard fluorescent one. This model, for example, which seems to be the 40" version of my second link above, clearly mentions fluorescent backlighting.
I'm pretty happy with my LG LCD tv, which I've had for 2 years. (This one: [link] ) I'm not a serious AV connoisseur, but I've had no technical problems, the picture's consistently clear and crisp, and the sound is good (n.b., I'm deaf in one ear, so if there's any sort of balance issue, I'm not the one to catch it).
Why can't IE run javascript every other browser can? Or rather is there a way to get rid of every version of IE before 9? Sigh.
Heh. I was just about to ask that same question about Safari....