Use of LED-backlight TV panels to explode: iSuppli
As the prices of thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels using light-emitting diode (LED) backlights are expected to fall in the coming years, the adoption such panels in TVs are expected to explode, predicted iSuppli, a major technology value-chain researcher and advisor.
According to iSuppli, the global shipments of LCD-TV panels with LED backlighting will rise to 90 million units in 2013, up from just 438,000 such panels in 2008. The penetration of LED-backlight technology in LCD-TV panels would increase to 39% in 2013, up from 3% in 2009, the company said.
Sweta Dash, senior director, LCD research at iSuppli, said that the price gap between LEDs and cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs) traditionally used for LCD backlighting has narrowed due to the higher yield rate of LEDs, as well as the oversupply that resulted in a drastic price reduction for LEDs in the second half of 2008.
In conjunction of the advent of green technology, power-savings and thinner form factors, more branded manufacturers are looking at LED-backlit LCD-TVs in 2009. These factors are spurring brand-name TV manufacturers to adopt LED backlighting.
Branded TV manufacturers have offered LED-backlight LCD-TVs for some years without much success. Mostly, this was due to a higher price and larger cost differential between LED and CCFL products. But there is a renewed interest in LED backlight-based LCD TVs with the use of white LEDs.
The lower price differential between CCFL and white LED solutions, combined with the lure of thin TV, has led to an increasing adoption rate of LED-based TVs. Branded manufacturers such as Samsung also are focusing on shifting a significant portion of their LCD-TV offerings to LED backlights.
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