Sony leaving plasma market....

[knirfie]

Originally posted by Wombat
LEDs do not need to be monochromatic, they can pull off the same trick that flourescents use. There IS a white LED, which is actually an LED in the UV band, coated with phosphors.

actually, sony uses RGB strips, made by luxeon .

[dZeus]

just read that they are using loads of LEDs as backlight as to increase the dynamic range of the light emitted from LCD/TFT panels:

http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19268