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New LED Backlights For LCD Screens
stuffman64 writes: "LumiLeds has a new LED backlighting technology based on their Luxeon Star LEDs. It is meant to replace the power-hogging CCFL lights currently in use. Benefits include longer battery life for notebooks, less weight, and a larger color gamut (up to 130% of the NTSC standard). The release can be found here." I wish I could hook up one of their evaluation kits to my machine right now;) The same site has quite a lot of LED-related information throughout.
The shade of red lipstick you purchased on the Internet and viewed on your LCD monitor will be the exact color red you receive in the mail.
That would appear to be an actionably false claim. Color calibration can only go so far, especially when dealing with aspects of color that are not captured in current displays such as reflectance, and when mapping between different color gamuts.
Calibration also gives incorrect results when mapping between different kinds of color. Monitor color is additive, while real-world colors are usually subtractive.
Finally, color is heavily affected by ambient light conditions, to which monitors and real-world objects respond differently.
Calibration can reduce differences but it comes nowhere close to removing them.
Tim
Their power-saving plan works by alternating the duty cycle of their red, green, and blue LEDs at 1-65Hz. I can feel a headache coming on already.
It's okay to love your LCD monitor, just don't looooove your LCD monitor...