Has anyone bought monitors with LED backlighting? Are they really better than regular ones?

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Has anyone bought monitors with LED backlighting? Are they really better than regular ones?

Answer 1

Sorry, but the comment turned out to be gigantic ... I updated my monitor six months ago ... and I approach such purchases thoroughly.
The backlight type does not affect brightness, contrast, image quality, viewing angles, etc. The above depends on the type and quality of the matrix itself. No matter what you highlight from behind, it will not add quality to the matrix itself.
What we have when buying a monitor with LED backlight:
+ less power consumption. 2 models similar in characteristics from Samsung: LED backlight - 26W, lamp - 48W. This is just for comparison ... but for example, my viewsonic vp2365wb (by the way, a very worthy monitor for the home) eats up to 130W (... and to your health!).
+ slightly more compact. Everything is clear here - diodes are much smaller than lamps ...
+ more uniform backlight (theoretically ... and definitely not in budget and middle class). Now the manufacturer has more ways to place light sources in its arsenal, in comparison with lamps (I stuck it this way or that and then we configure the box ... + the glow of the lamp itself is uneven).
+ survivability. On the one hand, diodes, theoretically, live longer than lamps (in practice, I only met a couple of times when one of my friends had a monitor / laptop lamp die of old age). On the other hand, if the lamp fails, then we lose the backlight completely, if one of the diodes fails, then we lose only the section ... (this is just my thoughts ... it all depends on the diode connection scheme).
— games of marketers add prices to products ...
- over time, the light / brightness characteristics of diodes change, and not identical for everyone ... and then everything can turn out to be more complicated than with a lamp ...
- ... maybe I forgot something else ...
myths:
LEDs heat up less.
LEDs don't whistle.
LEDs don't burn your eyes.
LED is brighter, more contrasty, juicier... oh-lo-trololo... not for nothing that they are more expensive =)
This is all the intrigues of enemies, the above listed depends only on the filling! And, yes, so that nothing cuts and does not itch, sit less at the monitor ... spring is on the street, friends! =)
As a result, apart from a slightly lower power consumption for a higher price tag, I don’t see any pluses (I’m not talking about laptops, everything is clear with them - every watt counts in an autonomous system) I don’t see yet. In the above comparison of the power consumption of 2 monitors, given the difference in cost of about 1500r-2000r, we will start saving on electricity somewhere in 5 years. So choose a matrix, not a backlight.
PS for the house I HIGHLY recommend to look narrowly at monitors on e-IPS.

Answer 2

Now I'm looking at the LED monitor.
1. Such a monitor costs a little more, but in theory this money will be saved on electricity over time.
2. Looks stylish due to the fact that it is very thin.
3. The quality of the picture probably needs to be measured with special devices in order to tell the difference. To the eye of an ordinary person (this is me) - the same.

Answer 3

They are better in terms of power consumption and dimensions. The rest depends on the type of matrix and its quality.
In laptops, most LEDs are shit.

Answer 4

I now have 2 24" monitors, one with LED and the other with normal backlighting. In LED, the color is much brighter.

Answer 5

I compared a pair of laptops for ~$500 with led and with a regular monitor. led seems to be brighter, but both monitors are full ge. that in colors, that in the corners. I think everyone in this price range is like that.

Answer 6

I have a sony laptop with led backlight ...
They write correctly above that everything depends heavily on the matrix. My display is quite dim (16:9). I didn’t notice a special difference with non-led ...
At the expense of energy saving (this is, as it were, important in laptops), so here this saving is so negligible that against the background of the rest of the iron, I don’t see any reason to consider this as a plus.
By the way, at home there is still a Samsung laptop ~ 3 years old (16:10), and so there is the usual backlight ... it is much more contrast. True, I can’t work for him for a long time ... my eyes burn. Lowering the brightness doesn't help.
Can anyone tell me how to reduce the contrast on the laptop? And then I gave it to my mother, I'm afraid for her eyes ...

Answer 7

In my subjective opinion (because I didn’t sit at different people at the same time, everything is consistent), LEDs have several advantages:
1. Better lumen / watt characteristic - that is, they either eat brighter or consume less energy. Or both, but a little bit.
2.Matrices on led are much thinner - especially noticeable on laptops, however, on desktop laptops
too manufacturers bother - you will not notice the difference.

Answer 8

Illumination uniformity?

Answer 9

At work, there is a 22 "Philips with LED. Before that, there was a Samsung 20" regular. In my subjective opinion, Philips is brighter and the backlight is more even.

Answer 10

Had a Dell latitude e4310 laptop with LED backlight. Purely subjective - it seemed to me that the backlight was more even, the screen heats up less. In the car, there was a Lilliput 7" in the carpc - the LEDs were also pleasing.