With new technologies coming up one may wonder why there is such a buzz about LED TVs and how they are different from its counterparts such as LCD and Plasma TVs.  To know the advantages one must first know what an LED TV is and, thereafter, how it’s different from its counterparts.

An LED TV is an LCD TV that uses light emitting diodes to illuminate the liquid crystal display. LED TVs can either be backlit where the light emitting diodes are behind the display panel or edge lit where the light emitting diodes are around the edge of the display. Both offer great clarity. Traditional LCD TVs use fluorescent tubes to illuminate the crystal display.

LED TV’s have an advantage over the traditional LCD TVs due to their ability to provide true black pictures and consequently a high contrast ratio. This is made possible by the LED TVs due to the local dimming effect where individual light emitting diodes can be switched off unlike the fluorescent lit LCD TVs which attempt to create dark areas by closing the crystals which in effect lets some light slip out therefore ending up with an imperfect black.

Size does matter and LED TVs can now be up to as thin as 1.2 inches unlike the traditional LCD TVs which are significantly larger. This in effect facilitates the mounting of the television on a wall and therefore using little space.

LED TVs are more environmental friendly in that since they do not use mercury on their manufacture unlike the plasma TV or the LCD TVs they can be disposed of safely without degradation to the environment.

LED TVs consume less power that the plasma TV or the LCD TV due to the application of the light emitting diodes. This in effect means that LED TVs are more energy efficient and reduce the electricity bill even further.

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