[PLUG] LCD's lit with LEDs (was: LCD thingies)

[Brent Rieck]

Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> When comparing LCDs and monitors, one should also consider power,
> radiation, deskspace consumed, pollution, and fire hazard.  A friend's
> house was burned down by flames from a failing monitor high-voltage
> circuit.  Fire can also happen with the high voltage that drives the
> CCFL backlight in an LCD (and oh how I wish they would use ultrabright
> white LEDs instead), but it does use quite a bit less power and voltage,
> so the fire hazard is less, all other things equal.

Samsung has announced a LED backlit screen, doesn't appear to be 
available in stores yet:
http://www.samsung.com/PressCenter/PressRelease/PressRelease.asp?seq=20061104_0000298342

--Brent