Bit of a con, really ... ?

Arfa Daily · 2009-05-11T11:12:08+00:00

Just had one of those weekly e-ads from a local department store that we use sometimes, trumpeting the latest "Ultraslim LED TV" from Samsung.Ha! I thought. I haven't heard anything about this. Is it OLED ? At sizes up to over 50", that didn't seem likely, so I followed the links to see what it was all about.Seems that these sets still actually have an LCD display panel, but the *backlighting* is LED ...OK, so I can see that there are advantages size-wise - these things are only 32mm thick - and also power consumption savings, as we all know that flourescent tube backlighting is very inefficient, but is it right to actually call these "LED TVs" ? Seems like a bit of a deliberately misleading use of the terminology to me - or is it maybe just me being a picky grumpy old sod ? d:~)Arfa