Are LEDS more reliable than LCD's?

[Ray in Kingwood]

So my local best buy just matched my internet price on the Samsung LN52B750.

Sales manager at this store seems knowledable. ( I am not ) all I know is I viewed both and both pictures are friigin awesome......

He was suggesting I sould opt for the LED's as they are more depenbable and have a significantly longer service life than an LCD. Google as I may I cannot find any support for this claim. I am about to buy the tv anyway.

Any help from you guyz would be appreciated. Oh yeah, the led is another 8 bills as well. (not a deciding factor)

 

[Seth=L]

That series is not "LED". They are still considered an LCD tv. LED is the method that is used to backlight the LCD panel. Samsung holds the patents to LED backlit televisions along with the reflective surface they used on their more recent upper end panels that gives their displays higher contrast ratios as well as other advantages in image quality. While their new TVs are ground breaking it's not what I would considered a different "type" of television.

Concerning reliability...

LED backlighting has an advantage in more than just reliability, it's also more energy efficient. LEDs don't waste much energy, so they don't dissipate as much heat as traditional fluorescent blacklighting. Less heat means less wear all around. Assuming the build quality is as high as it was before LED backlighting then it would be safe to assume the television would have a much longer lifespan. The reason why they cost so much more is due to the cost of making the LED backlight, which is in fact many small lights. Another cost is trying to fit everything into that little frame, as well as a good backlight engine to keep you from seeing gray at dramatic contrast shifts. And finally, it costs more because it can. It's the best thing in the market, so it gets to pick it's price (although it can't get too crazy, we are in a recession after all).

They've still got it goin on though, 1.2" thick panel with the best picture I've yet to see on an LCD panel.......yeah!

 

[jamie2112]

And there you have it............

 

[bandphan]

The reference series samsung led/lcds cover the full color ntsc gamut, but other models are limited to 80% or lower depending on the display.

 

[SJTrance]

I have a 7000 series 40" TV and it's quite stunning. It works perfectly but I hear of many people complaining of flashlighting and dark corner issues. I got lucky, but I'm still a bit nervous. My boss 58" just picked up the plasma version of Samsung's super slim TV. It's also gorgeous...especially at 1.2" thick. It's the thin'ness of the TV and the super sharp picture that made me buy it. It was kind of a tough decision for me because for the money I could have easily gotten a TV much larger. My living space, however, is a small NYC apartment and I didn't want a TV bigger than 42" and this TV works perfectly.

 

[LucB]

The certainly look great, incredibly thin. Theoretically, they should be better because the brightness of a lamp decreases over time and it's less evently lit.

But I'll still wait one or two years. Prices go down and LED backlights are still in their infancy, don't know if some issues will come up in the next one or two years. First wait and see.

 

[Seth=L]

I don't like these thin panels, the ones that are side lit. The PQ was a significant step backward from the first Samsung LED back lit panels IMO.