As notebooks become thinner, the need for LED-backlit screens become more important as they take up far less space and require less power. The same is true for desktop displays, but LED-backlit LCD panels are used primarily for a different reason here: uniformity and color gamut. Samsung has announced that it will be launching several new LCD monitors that use LED backlighting, meaning they boast the highest contrast ratio for LCDs available today (greater than 1000:1). Not only this, color saturation will be top-notch as well. Samsung"s specifications indicated that the new panels will deliver color levels at 111% of the NTSC standard while traditional LCDs can only muster out 72%.
The first monitor is a 24-inch display, which according to Samsung, will rival that of even some of the best LCD and plasma televisions. The new piece of hardware boasts a resolution of 1920x1200 (standard for a 24-inch) and Samsung"s highly celebrated S-PVA (super patterned-ITO vertical alignment) technology, giving a true 180-degrees viewing angle. When the new LED LCDs will hit OEMs is currently unknown but Samsung has been known to announce monitors over six months prior to production.