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We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Are you old enough to remember Philips Ambilight? If not, it was a brilliant feature on some Philips TVs that cast a glow onto the wall behind ...

Philips has quietly dropped its advanced, blinking fluorescent backlights for flat televisions, and will instead focus on LED backlights which are smaller, the Dutch electronics group said on Monday.

TV backlighting is perhaps one of the more unnecessary bits of tech you can invest in. As much as I personally love it, it's certainly not something you need, especially given how much it can cost to ...

The limited transmittance of LCD panels can be observed as a waste of energy, leading to a limited brightness. Light leaking through LCD panels driven to black, can be observed as a poor black-level, ...