LCD Panels

Unlike conventional LCD panels that use mercury lamps as its light source, the new Samsung 2-sided Edge-lit panel uses LEDs lit on the left and right edge side of the display as its sole light source. As a result, panel is 52% more energy efficient than conventional LCD panels of equal size. Samsung’s 2-sided Edge-lit technology works like this: While a direct-lit LED backlight will project light forward across the full expanse of the display from the front, 2-sided edge-lit LEDs emit light from 2 LED bars, on the left and right edges of every panel, requiring proportionately less power. The 2-sided edge-lit technology gathers the light towards the center of the display and bends it, reflecting it forward through a light-guide plate that precisely focuses the light for outstanding picture quality. Local dimming is the backlighting unit (BLU) driving technique used, which divides the BLU into 2 x 8 blocks and controls each block’s luminance independently according to RGB pixel data within a block. The local dimming technique significantly enhances power savings and the quality of the moving picture.

Samsung panels are RoHS compliant (does not use lead, cadmium or other RoHS-identified chemicals harmful to the environment). In addition, Samsung panels do not contain other hazardous substances sometimes used in display manufacturing, such as PVC, arsenic compounds or mercury.

Just 10.8 millimeters (mm) thick, the display allows for sale of the thinnest LCD televisions produced (LCD TVs account for over 70 percent of the TVs sold today) – TVs that can be hung just like a picture frame, a couple inches from the wall. The dimensions of the display also permit a significant savings in shipping materials. The 55” panel itself weighs only 14.5 kilograms.

TV sets using Samsung Edge-lit LED technology actually reduce greenhouse gases, thanks to their low power consumption. Furthermore, use of the local dimming technique reduces power consumption even more and enhances moving picture quality due to greater control of each block’s BLU luminance.

Samsung 2-sided Edge-lit LED backlighting requires 52% less power than conventional CCFL (cold cathode fluorescent lamp) backlighting (55-inch), an accomplishment that will help to reshape the global market for energy-efficient TV panels. Samsung's Auto Motion Plus 240Hz technology eliminates most motion blur, leaving crisp precise action for the viewer. It quadruples the frame rate from 60 to 240 frames per second in a most realistic manner, without repeating the same image to make more frames. Instead, the TV panel intelligently creates an interpolated ‘middle’ image between frame A and frame B, making the transition from one action to the next extremely fluid.

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