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Re:Firefox 67.0 Released by copperx on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @09:53AM (#19970140)
You must mean OLED. And no, there are almost no desktop OLED monitors in the wild.
Re:Firefox 67.0 Released by jmiskovic on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @10:18AM (#19970358)
"LED display" term is commonly used for LCD displays where backlight is also actively controlled to increase dynamic range.
Re:Firefox 67.0 Released by wlesieutre on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @10:32AM (#19970477)
Backlight control for dynamic range is common, but not necessary for being an “LED display.” It just means the backlight uses LEDs instead of CCFLs like they used to.
Re:Firefox 67.0 Released by ncmncm on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @11:29AM (#19971028)
Thus the distinction "pure LED" in my previous post.

That there are plenty of deceptively labeled LCDs does not mean there are no actual LED displays.

Re:Firefox 67.0 Released by usrusr on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @02:11PM (#19972979)
There is nothing deceptive about LED backlit LCDs, they are an important upgrade over CFL backlit LCDs.
Re:Firefox 67.0 Released by rstat1 on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @03:56PM (#19974231)
I've seen a fair few TVs with LED backlit screens, advertised as LED displays. Which what I think was meant by "deceptively labeled"
Re:Firefox 67.0 Released by usrusr on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @03:22AM (#19978676)
It's a display and it "has LED". Given a clean slate language reboot for today's technology we would probably reserve the term "LED display" to "LED per subpixel" models and call LED LCDs "LED backlit", but the term got into widespread use when the backlit kind was the only one available so that's where we are now.
Re:Firefox 67.0 Released by rehemiau on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @01:42PM (#19972572)
LCD displays where backlight is actively controlled probably still draw more power when displaying black than white
Re:Firefox 67.0 Released by ncmncm on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @10:21AM (#19970386)
They are not uncommon on laptops, and quite common on phones. And, I have a couple on my desk at the office.