LED vs CCFL

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CCFL vs LED

I recently got a 23″ Samsung monitor, my first LED-backlit display. I hadn’t noticed there being a big difference before, but my MacBook display now looks dim and hard to read.

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  1. Farhan Mannan says:
    10 January 2010 at 14:00

    Wow, you’re right. Crazy. BTW, what are those coloured squares (between “Samsung LED-backlit monitor” and “Macbook CCFL-backlit display”, under the respective pictures)?

  2. Vanderdecken says:
    10 January 2010 at 14:35

    Those are magnified portions of a block of white being displayed on each screen, so you can see the pixel structure and uniform brightness.

  3. Farhan Mannan says:
    10 January 2010 at 14:37

    Ooh. Thanks.

  4. zethraeus says:
    13 January 2010 at 13:14

    is there a clear colour difference or is it just white balance in the photographs?

  5. Alex Muller says:
    13 January 2010 at 17:04

    When they’re next to each other in a dark room I can easily tell the which has the yellow tint; if I recall correctly (and am not an idiot) I white balanced properly before taking these.

  6. ASDF says:
    9 December 2011 at 8:35

    I just stumbled upon this site. pretty late I know. anyway CCFL’s lose white tone and become yellow after time. I had my screen replaced and its white now.

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