Arfa Daily coughed up some electrons that declared:

Just had one of those weekly e-ads from a local department store that we
use sometimes, trumpeting the latest "Ultraslim LED TV" from Samsung.

Ha! I thought. I haven't heard anything about this. Is it OLED ? At sizes
up to over 50", that didn't seem likely, so I followed the links to see
what it was all about.

Seems that these sets still actually have an LCD display panel, but the
*backlighting* is LED ...

OK, so I can see that there are advantages size-wise - these things are
only 32mm thick - and also power consumption savings, as we all know that
flourescent tube backlighting is very inefficient, but is it right to
actually call these "LED TVs" ? Seems like a bit of a deliberately
misleading use of the terminology to me - or is it maybe just me being a
picky grumpy old sod ? d:~)

Arfa

This is more descriptive, though the tile seems misleading:

http://www.comet.co.uk/shopcomet/adv...amsung-7series

The bit about turning backlights on and off selectively to enhance blacks is
fair enough - a genuine advancement. But it's still not an LED TV, it's and
LED enhanced (or "intelligent LED backlight") LCD TV.

Here's what Samsung say:

http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/d... tents_series7

They seem to be rather overplaying the LED card, mentioning "single seamless
crystal" (I thought LCD meant Liquid Crystal)

And here's what TheRegister says:

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/01...sung_le40a786/

That seems to get to the point. The LED arrays are not pixel resolution.

All rather fuzzy...

They should just be honest and say "Smart LED lit ultra thin LCD" - I'd
still be impressed.