Feb 08 2011
Three Benefits that Make a Samsung LED TV Worth It
Has the question if a LED TV is worth the extra money popped to your mind? If the answer is yes, you might want to know what benefits make these television sets more fitting long term choices. There are quite a few points to be discussed, but I don’t want to dive too deep into technical details here; it would make a tedious read, and you wouldn’t get much closer to getting back into comparing those TV sets with each other.
While not an unimportant factor at all, environment friendliness could only be squeezed into the third place. As you might have heard from here or there, CCFL tubes, the backlight technology used in older or cheaper flat screen televisions, use minuscule amounts of mercury. We aren’t talking about the amount old thermometers had, but nonetheless it’s a risk when dealing with electronic waste. I like to stay on the safe side, and while it’s not the deal breaker by any means, I don’t use CCFL tubes when I have the chance not to.
Second, almost making the first place, missing it by a whisker of a cat, is power consumption. Drumrolls would be due, but since that hardly happens in written text, I have to emphasize it otherwise; cutting right to the chase. A Samsung LED TV uses as little as up to 40% less power than a similar model with a similar set of features and diagonal measurement. While that sinks in, here is another way to put it. You’re saving 30-50 watts of power just on opting for light emitting diodes alone, which is the amount an old light-bulb would have used if you haven’t thrown them all out years ago (you have, right?).
First, and most important selling point of a television set with LEDs is picture quality. There is no simpler way of going around it than popping in to a BestBuy and checking out for yourself. The colors are more accurate, and a contrast ratio you haven’t seen on anything but plasma screens can be achieved.
While TFT isn’t very good at these kind of things (contrast ratio, that is), I promise you’ll be positively surprised if you’re switching from an old non-hd, non-LED set to a new, all-singing all-dancing Samsung TV.
