It’s advantages start with the fact that they can be produced in much slimmer sizes than traditional lcd’s, some led backlit lcd’s can be as slim as 6mm and under.

It’s not just the slim form factor where led lcd panels excel, the nature of the led backlighting technology is much more accurate at producing colours and has a much more wider range of viewable colours than traditional lcd tv technology.

Unlike the traditional flourescent bulb lcd tv panel which has a single back light positioned at the rear of the panel, Led lcd’s have multiple led lights scattered all around the tv and some of the newly released led panels have almost 400 leds positioned around the panel.

And most importantly, where traditional lcd panels show light leakage in dark scenes on a film, tv show or games, led panels are capable of producing true blacks thanks to how the technology senses onscreen material. Usually if your watching a scene in a film that’s originally intended to look pure black, the led’s within the panel completely switch off to allow no light leakage whatsoever and for the onscreen image to be shown as dark as possible. Some of led tv’s abilities in producing dark scenes are comparable to that of some high spec plasma tv’s.

Philips have recently brought out a 42 in led set and is rated very well for it’s picture performance, particularly with colour decoding and the way it produces deep dark images onscreen, all thanks to the advantages of it’s led back lighting trickery.

Hope this info helps

Chris s.