14 DAY TRIAL // It appears that tablets aren't the only things gaining profile on the US and worldwide markets, as it is revealed that a certain other type of device has been getting more and more popular, or so sales figures suggest.
The display market, like pretty much every other facet of the IT industry, has been recovering quite well after the recession.
In fact, with things getting back to balance, certain technologies began to gain popularity, despite price issues and the like.
LED backlighting wasn't overly widespread among LCDs (liquid crystal displays) back at the start of 2010, since it really only emerged back in Q2 of 2009.
Still, due to its visible power efficiency advantages and high levels of brightness, it began to sell better and better, price premium or not.
To these benefits is added the extra asset of allowing for thinner monitor and TV form factors.
The situation on the US LCD TV market is one of the more promising ones for this solutions, as found by iSuppli.
Apparently, 22.5% of all LCD TVs sold in the US used LED instead of CCFL (cold cathode fluorescent lights).
“LED-backlit LCD TVs made up 22.5 percent of TVs bought in the U.S. market in the fourth quarter last year, up almost 3 points from 19.6 percent in the third quarter,” said Riddhi Patel, director for television systems and retail services at IHS.
“In comparison, a full three-fifths of consumer purchases were for LCD TVs featuring the older technology of cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL).”
“LED models are brighter, more power efficient and have thinner profiles, but they are also much more expensive than their CCFL counterparts, which explains the market disparity between the two flat-panel LCD technologies,” Patel added.
Considering that, back in Q4, 2009, the share was of just 6 percent, this is quite the gain.