X-Nico

3 unusual facts about Backlight


Backlight

In October 2008, Apple announced it will be using LED backlights for all its notebook and its new 24-inch Apple Cinema Display, and one year later it introduced a new LED iMac, meaning all of Apple's computer screens are now LED.

In 2007, Asus, Dell, and Apple introduced LED backlights into some of their notebook models.

Fujitsu introduced notebooks with LED backlights in 2006.


Elonex ebook

Screen: LCD, 5 inch colour screen, 800x480 pixels with anti-glare treatment and LED backlight.

Ennio Guarnieri

In the late sixties, for his ability to portray actresses, Guarnieri became trusted cinemtographer for stars such as Virna Lisi, Sylva Koscina and Tina Aumont, for which he made extensive use of soft focus, backlight and scrims.

Game Boy

Although, like its predecessor, the Game Boy Pocket has no backlight to allow play in a darkened area, it did notably improve visibility and pixel response-time (virtually eliminating video ghosting).


see also