LED display screens use light-emitting diodes to provide backlighting instead of the conventional CCFL used in LCD monitors. LEDs are smaller, more energy-efficient, and allow for more precise control of the backlighting, resulting in better color reproduction and higher contrast ratios. More @Wikipedia
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