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Re:Fixing Annoying Blue Standby Lights by btbuildem on Monday January 01, 2024 @08:08PM (#38836949)
Blue LEDs were deemed a huge breakthrough at the time; they enabled full-colour LED displays (think large panels viewed from a distance) by adding the long-missing B in the RGB.
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Re:Fixing Annoying Blue Standby Lights by analog31 on Monday January 01, 2024 @08:29PM (#38837078)
Indeed, and they are also the basis of single element white LEDs, which are a blue led covered by a white phosphor. The inventor of the bright blue led worked for a chemical company that made phosphors, and invented the white one as well.
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Re:Fixing Annoying Blue Standby Lights by cryptonector on Monday January 01, 2024 @09:39PM (#38837434)
They also enabled bueray DVDs.
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Re:Fixing Annoying Blue Standby Lights by wlonkly on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @02:09PM (#38845632)
Enough of a breakthrough to be worthy of a Nobel prize, even:

https://medium.com/predict/why-blue-led-earned-nobel-prize-i...

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