Desktop and laptop computer LCD monitors sport a long light bulb to display the video. When this bulb burns out, the screen dims to almost black. Failing backlights can also cause the picture to ...

You could help smooth out a long-needed overhaul of Linux's backlight systems. I might give it a go, since I've got several old laptops and all of them exhibit all sorts of weird behaviour. Doesn't ...

Another broken LCD TV came [Steve DiRaddo’s] way. This one had a broken backlight that he wanted to fix. He scrapped his LCD light table in order use the inverter. The two televisions were not the ...

Smart Mobile Luminance Control (SMLC), a low-power backlight control algorithm for LCD driver chips, promises to reduce the luminance of LCD backlights by up to 50%. The unique technology analyzes ...

Do you have a laptop that's either "pretty old" or "weird in some other way"? Did it ship without Windows from the factory, or did you flash its firmware with coreboot? You could help the Linux kernel ...

Canon has admitted that the EOS 5D Mark III DSLR can suffer from light leakage from its secondary LCD backlight. Canon has admitted that the EOS 5D Mark III DSLR can suffer from light leakage from its ...