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LCD displays don’t emit light by themselves. They need a light source, and LED backlights are now dominating the market. In this article, Orient Display’s Bill Cheung provides a complete overview of LED backlight technology, discussing different types, driver technologies, color deviation, brightness options and more.

LCD (liquid crystal display) has long been the dominant technology in the display world. Certainly, there are some emerging competing display technologies—such as OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) [1] and micro-LED—that have the potential to threaten LCD’s position in the market. But both are currently only used for niche and high-end markets.

An LCD display can’t emit light by itself. In order to have an LCD display [2] used in a dim environment, a backlight has to be used as the light source. There are a few different technologies that are able to produce backlight ranging from EL (electroluminescent), CCFL (cold cathode fluorescent lamps) and LED (light emitting diode). However, a breakthrough in blue LED technology by Shuji Nakamura [3] led to LED backlights dominating the market.

One of the greatest benefits of LED backlighting is its long lifetime. Normally, LED lifetime can be measured with half-life when the original brightness decreases by 50%. With different LED chip manufacturing materials, technologies and environment used, the LED life can vary from 20,000 hours to well over 100,000 hours.

LED backlights have low power consumption and produce much less heat than other backlight technologies, which extends the durability and performance of the other display components. Furthermore, this reduces the risk of fire and explosion. LED backlights are also driven with DC (direct current) and low voltage (can be as low as 1.5V), which are good for battery drive and emit no interference to the circuitry. With the development of LED technology, the LED chips become small. So, it is possible to produce very thin backlight (0.5mm thick or thinner).

Although white LED is the most popular color, LED backlight can be made into different single colors, bi-colors and tri-colors [4] (Figure 1) (Figure 2). With RGB LED backlight color mixing, normal 8 color LED backlight can be produced (Figure 3).

LED backlight can be classified as bottom (array) lit and side (edge) lit backlights, and each have their plusses and minuses. The advantages of the bottom lit (array) backlight are that it is uniform and bright. Its disadvantage is high current draw, thickness, heat dissipation and cost. Meanwhile, the advantages of the side lit backlight are its thinness, flexibility in design, low current and lower cost. The main disadvantage of the side lit backlight is its non-uniformity—hot spots can be seen from most of the side lit backlight from certain angle. Figure 4 compares the bottom lit and side (edge) lit backlight LCD types.

Now let’s look at LED backlight structures. An LED backlight can be simplified into layers starting with a LED chip, light guide, diffusor and reflector (Figure 5). This is the lowest cost structure. Except for some very low current efficiency LCD displays—such as utility meters, battery-powered clock, watch, GPS and so on—most LCD displays need backlights to be visible in the dim lighting. Most often the backlight is actually at the back of the LCD. In rare cases, this light can be done as front light. The traditional LCD structure with LED backlight shown in Figure 6.

Direct current driving: This is the simple and low-cost way to drive a LED backlight, however, be mindful of the current limit otherwise the LED life can deteriorate quickly. The solution is simply to add a current limiting resistor in the circuit. Current limitation resistors value calculation formula: R = (V0– Vf)/If.Also be mindful of reverse drive, otherwise, the LED chip can break down easily.

LED driver with constant current: The advantage of constant current LED driver is that it will be the best option to use when building your own fixture or working with high powered LED because they avoid violating the maximum current specified for the LEDs, therefore avoiding burnout/thermal runaway. They are easier for designers to control applications, and help create a more consistent bright light.

LED driver with constant voltage: Using a constant voltage LED driver makes sense when using an LED or array that has been specified to take a certain voltage. This is helpful because constant voltage is a much more familiar technology for design and installation engineers. Moreover, the cost of these systems can be lower, especially in larger scale applications.

There are a variety of ways to connect a backlight and LCD module electrically. It can be done with wires that are soldered on the LCD or LCD module. It can be connected using pins, which can be soldered onto the LCD or LCD module. A third way is to use a FPC (flexible printed circuit), which can be soldered or plugged in a ZIF (zero insertion force) connector. And finally, there is the connector method. With this method you use connectors which can be plugged into mating connectors.

As the LED is manufactured via the semiconductor process, there are some color deviations that can be a quality control issue. One way to solve the issue is through a process of selection and sorting after manufacturing the LEDs. The LEDs are sorted into different categories or bins. How this sorting is done and what each bin actually contains is defined differently by each LED manufacturer. The backlight manufacturer can choose from which bin they take the LEDs for backlight color hue.

Some customers might request very fine binning by the LED manufacturer, which can be very expensive since only a very small percentage of the LEDs manufactured would meet the requirements for a specific bin. Figure 7 shows an example of the bin selection from Nichia, the most renowned LED manufacturer in the world. Figure 8 shows the 1931 CIE chromaticity diagram. And Figure 9 shows the color deviations (bin definition) by Cree for a qualified production lot.

In actual LED backlight production, most customers will accept the LED color for two big categories: white with yellowish (warm) and white with bluish (cold). Of course, the LED brightness will also need to be defined. For general application, most customers will accept a brightness tolerance of 70 percent.

It is extremely hard to estimate the LED backlight lifetime or MTBF (mean time between failures) because there are so many variable factors. However, the most important is the temperature on the LED chip. The factors that can affect the LED chip temperature include: surrounding temperature, humidity, driving current, voltage, backlight design (how many LED chips to be used, how close to each other, heatsink design), backlight manufacturing process (type and thickness of adhesive), quality of the LED chip and so forth.

To test the LED life is also very time consuming, requiring at least 1,000 hours. That’s the reason why no LED manufacturers can guarantee LED backlight life and most backlight manufacturers also are reluctant to provide lifespan data. As for LCD manufacturers, they need to discuss it with the customer to understand the applications and provide suggestions. It is normal that the LCD datasheet lists the typical life time and avoids providing a minimum lifetime. From Figure 10, we can see that over room temperature, the current needs to decrease as the temperature increases. At over 85°C, the LED is not usable.

To estimate LED backlight lifetime, you can use ballpark estimation or theoretical calculation. Let’s first examine the ballpark method. To take white LED as example, the nominal biasing current is 20mA. If we use a safe lifetime estimation, we can estimate using Table 1.

Now let’s use the theoretical calculation approach. As we previously mentioned, LED life is affected by a lot of factors: surrounding temperature, humidity, driving current, voltage, backlight design (how many LED chips to be used, how close to each other, heatsink designed), backlight manufacturing process (type and thickness of adhesive), quality of the LED chip and so on. LED chip manufacturers are not willing to give absolute values of LED chip lifetimes, but there is a theoretical calculation that we can use.

Temperature is the determination factor for LED chip life, while LED chip manufacturers use LED junction temperature to predict LED chip life more accurately. An example is:

Finally, let’s look at ways to increase LED backlight brightness. There are many ways to increase LED backlight brightness, but all these measures are balanced with performance and cost. Here are some of the methods:

For the LCD module side, using better aperture opening ratio, anti-reflection coating on surface, optical bonding. This results in higher cost. Actually, this measure is not to increase LED backlight brightness directly but to increase to the visibility to users.

Bill Cheung is an engineering lead and marketing manager at Orient Display, an LCD and display technology provider with over two decades of industry experience in delivering cutting edge display solutions. You can browse Orient Display"s knowledge base [7] to learn more about LCDs.

Our requirements for the best LCD/LED TV, including full-array local dimming and a true 120 Hz refresh rate, mean that most TVs out there don’t qualify for testing and contention in this guide. Also, TV makers have started reducing the number of 4K models they have, or reducing the features in those TVs, as they focus on 8K for their most high-end displays. We don’t think 8K is worth the investment yet, just as 4K wasn’t at the start, so we dismissed a number of premium TVs—but we still expect that prices on 8K TVs will come down over the next few years, and that 8K sets will replace 4K models as our best LCD/LED TV picks.

Because 8K LCD TVs are still so expensive but very little 8K content is available, we’ve opted not to consider 8K TV series from Samsung (QN900B, QN800B, and QN700B), LG (QNED99 and QNED95), and Sony (Z9K).

The Sony X90K impressed us with its brightness and color saturation, but for what you’re paying—$1,200 or more for a 65-inch size—it doesn’t offer the same value and local-dimming prowess as models equipped with mini-LED backlights. Test results included peak brightnesses upwards of 700 nits and very impressive black levels (as low as 0.006 nits) during ideal conditions, but the lack of mini-LEDs meant we saw more bloom (backlighting visible around bright objects situated against a dark or black background) than we’d prefer in this category. The X90K also isn’t capable of the same color saturation as models using a quantum dot substrate, which became apparent during HDR testing and viewing. If you’re specifically buying a TV to pair with a PS5, however, it’s a decent choice: Sony has designed its 2022 models to exhibit a specific parity with current PlayStation consoles. But we think most readers will be better served by mini-LED-equipped models that cost the same (or less) than the X90K. We did not consider the Sony X85K because it does not have local dimming, nor the Sony X80K because it is limited to a 60Hz refresh rate.

Unlike previous years, the Samsung QN95B is available to buy in the US market in 2022, but according to our contacts at Samsung, it’s almost identical to the QN90B we’re already testing save for its use of Samsung’s “One Connect” box, which puts all the AV connections in a separate box. While this simplification might appeal to some buyers, we don’t expect to test the QN95B Series unless it’s revealed to have markedly different performance. We also don’t intend to test the QN85B or Q80B because they use IPS (in-plane switching) LCD panels, which can’t produce the superior contrast that our picks can. We did not consider the Q70B because it uses edge LED lighting, nor the Q60B because it’s limited to a 60 Hz refresh rate. Samsung’s “BU” range of 4K LCD TVs for 2022 lack the hardware upgrades to gain consideration.

Likewise, many of LG’s 2022 LCD TVs—including the QNED90, NANO80, and NANO75 (which have IPS panels), the QNED80 (which is edge-lit), and the UQ Series—have hardware limitations that led to their dismissal.

The Hisense U8G improves upon the previous H9G by adding more zones of local dimming, full HDMI 2.1 support for new video game consoles, and highlights that pushed past 1,500 nits in our measurements. But in a situation similar to last year, in this model the Hisense hardware is let down by software that isn’t as refined as the competition’s. In our tests of SDR and HDR content, the gamma curve and EOTF, respectively, were too bright no matter what picture mode we selected, and we were unable to correct the problem. As a result, images looked more washed out and lacked pop compared with what we saw from the competition. With SDR video, shadow areas appeared closer to gray than black unless we significantly lowered the backlight, and then the image was too dim for many rooms. HDR images were brighter than they should have been, which also caused colors to be less saturated than on competing TVs, so the extra brightness was wasted. Dolby Vision content looked good, since Dolby Vision forces the image to be more accurate, but that doesn’t help with non-Dolby content. The video processing also fell behind, with noticeable jaggies on interlaced content like HDTV broadcasts or DVDs, which none of the other tested TVs had issues with.

Samsung’s QN85A has many of the same features as the QN90A but uses a different type of LCD panel with wider viewing angles but lower contrast ratios. It also uses a mini-LED backlighting system, but it can’t get as bright as the QN90A and has fewer dimming zones (though it costs less). Since the QN90A already does a good job of offering wider viewing angles than a conventional LCD, we chose to review and recommend it instead.

The more affordable Samsung Q80A also meets our requirements for this guide but, like the QN85A, uses a different type of LCD panel with especially poor black levels. Without the mini-LED backlighting system that the Neo QLED models use, the Q80A TV offers very poor contrast, making it almost impossible to recommend.

The TCL 6-Series (model R648) is a 2021 update to the 6-Series that adds 8K resolution and full HDMI 2.1 features, including 4K at 120 Hz, variable refresh rate, and automatic low-latency mode. Its full-array local dimming worked well in our tests, and its dynamic tone mapping better preserves HDR highlights. The HDMI 2.1 gaming features worked perfectly, too, with the TV automatically detecting our Xbox Series X and enabling variable refresh rate and game mode while displaying everything at 4K 120 Hz. But 8K is a feature that we don’t think you need right now due to the price premium, and it can actually have negative effects. This TCL model has to scale all 4K content to 8K to display it, and in our tests it scaled some content incorrectly—so a yellow and red neon sign became only red, for example. And film grain on Blu-ray discs was amplified; instead of being a fine grain, it was more apparent and noisier. For the same price, you can get either an OLED TV or our upgrade pick, the Samsung QN90A, both of which offer superior 4K performance today. If you need 8K, the TCL 6-Series R648 is a good option, but sticking with 4K gives you a better TV for the price.

We tested Vizio’s 2021 P-Series Quantum (P65Q9-J01) and found that it offers image quality almost indistinguishable from the Hisense U7G’s results, with nearly 1,000 nits of brightness. It also has a pair of HDMI 2.1 inputs that support 4K 120 Hz with HDR. But Vizio’s SmartCast streaming platform isn’t as nice to use as Android TV, and the app selection is far more limited. In addition, Vizio is still working out bugs in the 2020 models in relation to certain game consoles and other devices, which makes us wary of recommending them right now.

A LED-backlit LCD is a liquid-crystal display that uses LEDs for backlighting instead of traditional cold cathode fluorescent (CCFL) backlighting.TFT LCD (thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display) technologies as CCFL-backlit LCDs, but offer a variety of advantages over them.

While not an LED display, a television using such a combination of an LED backlight with an LCD panel is advertised as an LED TV by some manufacturers and suppliers.

The local dimming method of backlighting allows to dynamically control the level of light intensity of specific areas of darkness on the screen, resulting in much higher dynamic-contrast ratios, though at the cost of less detail in small, bright objects on a dark background, such as star fields or shadow details.

A study by the University of California (Berkeley) from January 2016 suggests that the subjectively perceived visual enhancement with common contrast source material levels off at about 60 LCD local dimming zones.

LED-backlit LCDs are not self-illuminating (unlike pure-LED systems). There are several methods of backlighting an LCD panel using LEDs, including the use of either white or RGB (Red, Green, and Blue) LED arrays behind the panel and edge-LED lighting (which uses white LEDs around the inside frame of the TV and a light-diffusion panel to spread the light evenly behind the LCD panel). Variations in LED backlighting offer different benefits. The first commercial full-array LED-backlit LCD TV was the Sony Qualia 005 (introduced in 2004), which used RGB LED arrays to produce a color gamut about twice that of a conventional CCFL LCD television. This was possible because red, green and blue LEDs have sharp spectral peaks which (combined with the LCD panel filters) result in significantly less bleed-through to adjacent color channels. Unwanted bleed-through channels do not "whiten" the desired color as much, resulting in a larger gamut. RGB LED technology continues to be used on Sony BRAVIA LCD models. LED backlighting using white LEDs produces a broader spectrum source feeding the individual LCD panel filters (similar to CCFL sources), resulting in a more limited display gamut than RGB LEDs at lower cost.

The evolution of energy standards and the increasing public expectations regarding power consumption have made it necessary for backlight systems to manage their power. As for other consumer electronics products (e.g., fridges or light bulbs), energy consumption categories are enforced for television sets.

Using PWM (pulse-width modulation), a technology where the intensity of the LEDs are kept constant but the brightness adjustment is achieved by varying a time interval of flashing these constant light intensity light sources,

A first dynamic "local dimming" LED backlight was public demonstrated by BrightSide Technologies in 2003,Sony in September 2008 on the 40-inch (1,000 mm) BRAVIA KLV-40ZX1M (known as the ZX1 in Europe). Edge-LED lighting for LCDs allows thinner housing; the Sony BRAVIA KLV-40ZX1M is 1 cm thick, and others are also extremely thin.

LED-backlit LCDs have longer life and better energy efficiency than plasma and CCFL LCD TVs.mercury (an environmental pollutant) in their manufacture. However, other elements (such as gallium and arsenic) are used in the manufacture of the LED emitters; there is debate over whether they are a better long-term solution to the problem of screen disposal.

Because LEDs can be switched on and off more quickly than CCFLs and can offer a higher light output, it is theoretically possible to offer very high contrast ratios. They can produce deep blacks (LEDs off) and high brightness (LEDs on). However, measurements made from pure-black and pure-white outputs are complicated by the fact that edge-LED lighting does not allow these outputs to be reproduced simultaneously on screen.

Quantum dots are photoluminescent; they are useful in displays because they emit light in specific, narrow normal distributions of wavelengths. To generate white light best suited as an LCD backlight, parts of the light of a blue-emitting LED are transformed by quantum dots into small-bandwidth green and red light such that the combined white light allows for a nearly ideal color gamut generated by the RGB color filters of the LCD panel. In addition, efficiency is improved, as intermediate colors are not present anymore and don"t have to be filtered out by the color filters of the LCD screen. This can result in a display that more accurately renders colors in the visible spectrum. Other companies are also developing quantum dot solutions for displays: Nanosys, 3M as a licensee of Nanosys, QD Vision of Lexington, Massachusetts and Avantama of Switzerland.Consumer Electronics Show 2015.quantum dot displays at CES 2017 and later formed the "QLED Alliance" with Hisense and TCL to market the technology.

Mini LED displays are LED-backlit LCD with Mini LED–based backlighting supporting over a thousand of Full array local dimming (FALD) zones. This allows deeper blacks and higher contrast ratio.

LED backlights are often dimmed by applying pulse-width modulation to the supply current, switching the backlight off and on more quickly than the eye can perceive. If the dimming-pulse frequency is too low or the user is sensitive to flicker, this may cause discomfort and eyestrain (similar to the flicker of CRT displays at lower refresh rates).

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Shopping for a new TV is like wading through a never-ending pool of tech jargon, display terminology, and head-spinning acronyms. It was one thing when 4K resolution landed in the homes of consumers, with TV brands touting the new UHD viewing spec as a major marketing grab. But over the last several years, the plot has only continued to thicken when it comes to three- and four-letter acronyms with the introduction of state-of-the-art lighting and screen technology. But between OLEDs, QLEDs, mini-LEDs, and now QD-OLEDs, there’s one battle of words that rests at the core of TV vocabulary: LED versus LCD.

Despite having a different acronym, LED TV is just a specific type of LCD TV, which uses a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel to control where light is displayed on your screen. These panels are typically composed of two sheets of polarizing material with a liquid crystal solution between them. When an electric current passes through the liquid, it causes the crystals to align, so that light can (or can’t) pass through. Think of it as a shutter, either allowing light to pass through or blocking it out.

Since both LED and LCD TVs are based around LCD technology, the question remains: what is the difference? Actually, it’s about what the difference was. Older LCD TVs used cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs) to provide lighting, whereas LED LCD TVs used an array of smaller, more efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to illuminate the screen.

Since the technology is better, all LCD TVs now use LED lights and are colloquially considered LED TVs. For those interested, we’ll go deeper into backlighting below, or you can move onto the Local Dimming section.

Three basic illumination forms have been used in LCD TVs: CCFL backlighting, full-array LED backlighting, and LED edge lighting. Each of these illumination technologies is different from one another in important ways. Let’s dig into each.

CCFL backlighting is an older, now-abandoned form of display technology in which a series of cold cathode lamps sit across the inside of the TV behind the LCD. The lights illuminate the crystals fairly evenly, which means all regions of the picture will have similar brightness levels. This affects some aspects of picture quality, which we discuss in more detail below. Since CCFLs are larger than LED arrays, CCFL-based LCD TVs are thicker than LED-backlit LCD TVs.

Full-array backlighting swaps the outdated CCFLs for an array of LEDs spanning the back of the screen, comprising zones of LEDs that can be lit or dimmed in a process called local dimming. TVs using full-array LED backlighting to make up a healthy chunk of the high-end LED TV market, and with good reason — with more precise and even illumination, they can create better picture quality than CCFL LCD TVs were ever able to achieve, with better energy efficiency to boot.

Another form of LCD screen illumination is LED edge lighting. As the name implies, edge-lit TVs have LEDs along the edges of a screen. There are a few different configurations, including LEDs along just the bottom, LEDs on the top and bottom, LEDs left and right, and LEDs along all four edges. These different configurations result in picture quality differences, but the overall brightness capabilities still exceed what CCFL LCD TVs could achieve. While there are some drawbacks to edge lighting compared to full-array or direct backlight displays, the upshot is edge lighting that allows manufacturers to make thinner TVs that cost less to manufacture.

To better close the local-dimming quality gap between edge-lit TVs and full-array back-lit TVs, manufacturers like Sony and Samsung developed their own advanced edge lighting forms. Sony’s technology is known as “Slim Backlight Master Drive,” while Samsung has “Infinite Array” employed in its line of QLED TVs. These keep the slim form factor achievable through edge-lit design and local dimming quality more on par with full-array backlighting.

Local dimming is a feature of LED LCD TVs wherein the LED light source behind the LCD is dimmed and illuminated to match what the picture demands. LCDs can’t completely prevent light from passing through, even during dark scenes, so dimming the light source itself aids in creating deeper blacks and more impressive contrast in the picture. This is accomplished by selectively dimming the LEDs when that particular part of the picture — or region — is intended to be dark.

Local dimming helps LED/LCD TVs more closely match the quality of modern OLED displays, which feature better contrast levels by their nature — something CCFL LCD TVs couldn’t do. The quality of local dimming varies depending on which type of backlighting your LCD uses, how many individual zones of backlighting are employed, and the quality of the processing. Here’s an overview of how effective local dimming is on each type of LCD TV.

TVs with full-array backlighting have the most accurate local dimming and therefore tend to offer the best contrast. Since an array of LEDs spans the entire back of the LCD screen, regions can generally be dimmed with more finesse than on edge-lit TVs, and brightness tends to be uniform across the entire screen. Hisense’s impressive U7G TVs are great examples of relatively affordable models that use multiple-zone, full-array backlighting with local dimming.

“Direct local dimming” is essentially the same thing as full-array dimming, just with fewer LEDs spread further apart in the array. However, it’s worth noting that many manufacturers do not differentiate “direct local dimming” from full-array dimming as two separate forms of local dimming. We still feel it’s important to note the difference, as fewer, further-spaced LEDs will not have the same accuracy and consistency as full-array displays.

Because edge lighting employs LEDs positioned on the edge or edges of the screen to project light across the back of the LCD screen, as opposed to coming from directly behind it, it can result in very subtle blocks or bands of lighter pixels within or around areas that should be dark. The local dimming of edge-lit TVs can sometimes result in some murkiness in dark areas compared with full-array LED TVs. It should also be noted that not all LED edge-lit TVs offer local dimming, which is why it is not uncommon to see glowing strips of light at the edges of a TV and less brightness toward the center of the screen.

Since CCFL backlit TVs do not use LEDs, models with this lighting style do not have dimming abilities. Instead, the LCD panel of CCFL LCDs is constantly and evenly illuminated, making a noticeable difference in picture quality compared to LED LCDs. This is especially noticeable in scenes with high contrast, as the dark portions of the picture may appear too bright or washed out. When watching in a well-lit room, it’s easier to ignore or miss the difference, but in a dark room, it will be, well, glaring.

As if it wasn’t already confusing enough, once you begin exploring the world of modern display technology, new acronyms crop up. The two you’ll most commonly find are OLED and QLED.

An OLED display uses a panel of pixel-sized organic compounds that respond to electricity. Since each tiny pixel (millions of which are present in modern displays) can be turned on or off individually, OLED displays are called “emissive” displays (meaning they require no backlight). They offer incredibly deep contrast ratios and better per-pixel accuracy than any other display type on the market.

Because they don’t require a separate light source, OLED displays are also amazingly thin — often just a few millimeters. OLED panels are often found on high-end TVs in place of LED/LCD technology, but that doesn’t mean that LED/LCDs aren’t without their own premium technology.

QLED is a premium tier of LED/LCD TVs from Samsung. Unlike OLED displays, QLED is not a so-called emissive display technology (lights still illuminate QLED pixels from behind). However, QLED TVs feature an updated illumination technology over regular LED LCDs in the form of Quantum Dot material (hence the “Q” in QLED), which raises overall efficiency and brightness. This translates to better, brighter grayscale and color and enhances HDR (High Dynamic Range) abilities.

And now to make things extra confusing, part of Samsung’s 2022 TV lineup is being billed as traditional OLEDs, although a deeper dive will reveal this is actually the company’s first foray into a new panel technology altogether called QD-OLED.

For a further description of QLED and its features, read our list of the best TVs you can buy. The article further compares the qualities of both QLED and OLED TV; however, we also recommend checking outfor a side-by-side look at these two top-notch technologies.

There are more even displays to become familiar with, too, including microLED and Mini-LED, which are lining up to be the latest head-to-head TV technologies. Consider checking out how the two features compare to current tech leaders in

In the world of TV technology, there’s never a dull moment. However, with this detailed research, we hope you feel empowered to make an informed shopping decision and keep your Best Buy salesperson on his or her toes.

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The Transmissive polarizer is best used for displays that run with the backlight on all the time. This polarizer provides the brightest backlight possible. If you have a need for a bright backlight with lower power drain, transmissive is a good choice for this TFT LCD display.

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Typical LCDs are edge-lit by a strip of white LEDs. The 2D backlighting system in Pro Display XDR is unlike any other. It uses a superbright array of 576 blue LEDs that allows for unmatched light control compared with white LEDs. Twelve controllers rapidly modulate each LED so that areas of the screen can be incredibly bright while other areas are incredibly dark. All of this produces an extraordinary contrast that’s the foundation for XDR.

For even greater control of light, each LED is treated with a reflective layer, a highly customized lens, and a geometrically optimized reflector that are all unique to Pro Display XDR. Through a pioneering design, light is reflected, mixed, and shaped between two layers to minimize blooming and provide uniform lighting.

Converting blue light to white is a difficult process that requires extremely precise color conversion. It’s why most display makers use white LEDs. Pro Display XDR accomplishes this conversion with an expertly designed color transformation sheet made of hundreds of layers that control the light spectrum passing through them.

Pro Display XDR extends exceptional image quality to the very edge. To ensure that LEDs along the sides of the display mix well with adjacent ones, a micro-lens array boosts light along the edges. This creates uniform color and brightness across the entire screen.

With a massive amount of processing power, the timing controller (TCON) chip utilizes an algorithm specifically created to analyze and reproduce images. It controls LEDs at over 10 times the refresh rate of the LCD itself, reducing latency and blooming. It’s capable of multiple refresh rates for amazingly smooth playback. Managing both the LED array and LCD pixels, the TCON precisely directs light and color to bring your work to life with stunning accuracy.

The display includes a resistive touch screen, full color, and a 6 o"clock viewing angle. For more information about the display, including its detailed datasheet, check out the 320x240 3.5" Touch Screen Color TFT page.

The EVE board really makes the display shine. EVE (embedded video engine) is a cool technology from FTDI/Bridgetek that simplifies the process of displaying videos and text. All display, touch sensing, backlight, and audio features are controlled by the FTDI FT810 EVE which appears to host the MCU as a memory-mapped SPI device. The host MCU sends commands and data over the SPI serial protocol. The module can support both SPI and Quad-SPI. You can connect to the EVE board via a 30-pin FPC / ZIF connector.

If you"re looking for an even simpler way to check out this display, look into the Eve 3.5" TFT Development Kit which includes everything you need to get started.

The Arduino TFT screen is a backlit TFT LCD screen with a micro SD card slot in the back. You can draw text, images, and shapes to the screen with the TFT library.

The Arduino TFT library extends the Adafruit GFX, and Adafruit ST7735 libraries that it is based on. The GFX library is responsible for the drawing routines, while the ST7735 library is specific to the screen on the Arduino screen. The Arduino specific additions were designed to work as similarly to the Processing API as possible.

The TFT library relies on the SPI library, which must be included in any sketch that uses the scree. If you wish to use the SD card, you need to include the SD library as well.

When thinking about coordinates on the screen, imagine a grid. Each square in the grid is a pixel. You can identify the placement of pixels with specific coordinates. A dot in the top left corner would have coordinates of 0,0. If this dot were to move to the top right of the screen, its coordinates would be 0, 159; in the bottom left corner, the coordinates would be 127,0, and in the bottom right it would be 127,159.

It is possible to use the screen in a vertical, (also called "portrait") orientation, by callingsetRotation(0). When you call this, the x and y-axes change accordingly, and calls to screen.width() or screen.height() change as well.

If you are using an Esplora, the structure of the program is the exact same. As the Esplora has a socket designed for the screen, and the pins for using the screen are fixed, an Esplora only object is created when targeting sketches for that board. You can reference the screen attached to an Esplora throughEsploraTFT.

To give the illusion of motion, you need to quickly erase and draw images on the screen. When using Processing on a powerful computer, you can callbackground() every time through your draw() function to erase the window contests and dra objects in their new positions. The Arduino is not as fast, is it takes a little time to clear the screen when calling background() with the TFT library.

The TFT library includes a basic font for drawing text on screen. By default, characters are 5 pixels wide and 8 pixels tall. It is possible to change the font size to 10x16, 15x24, or 20x32. For additional information on the underlying font capabilities, see the Adafruit page on graphic primitives.

The TFT library has the ability to read .bmp files off a SD card and display them on the screen. Images can be smaller or larger than the screen resolution (160x128), but there is no method on the Arduino for image manipulation. The images should be sized before you put them on the SD card.

Connecting the pins in the proper way, you can see the lcd screen working with your Uno (or Duemilanove) just uploading the simple "TFTBitmapLogo" sketch.

The Arduino Leonardo & Arduino Yún use different pins to be compatible with the lcd screen. To set the pins MISO, MOSI and SCK, you have to use the ICSP terminals.+5V:+5V

The screen will show this message: "Arduino TFT Bitmap Example. Open serial monitor to run the sketch". Open the serial monitor to view the Arduino Logo.

To connect the lcd screen to an Arduino Due, use this pin configuration and don"t forget to set the right value for the variable "sd_cs" (#definesd_cs7) in the sketch:+5V:+3.3V

Now that you have tested the basic functionality of the screen, see the TFT library pages for information about the library"s API and additional examples. It"s also recommended to visit the Adafruit graphics library page for additional information on functions not covered.