LED versus LCD for bedroom tv?

usignuolo

Following on from earlier posts, I am now in the market for a new tv monitor to install in my bedroom to watch lying in bed. I need it to be HD ready and have a built in DVD player and HDMI and USB ports and a 32inch screen.

So far so good. But looking up the options available on line, there are several reviews that say LED screens are best watched directly in front of your eyeline and not so easy to see if it is wall mounted higher up. Which is what I had in mind.

There are also two kinds of LEDs apparently, edge lit and back lit. Which is better? And would I actually be better off with an older style LCD monitor if I plan to mount it on the wall slightly above my eye level and watch it lying in bed?

almillar

That stuff is talking about viewing angles. Usually this is talked about horizontally (people sitting at opposite ends of a room not seeing as good a picture as someone sitting directly in front of the set, but it can be a problem vertically too, especially on cheaper, and smaller bedroom type ones (uh-oh!).
If you are way above or way below the screen, it can look like a negative or badly blown out image. You want to mount the screen so that you can tilt it vertically.
This happens on all LCDs. That includes traditional ones, which are lit by one sortof fluorescent tube, and LED too. These are lit by several LEDs, either round the edge (edge lit) or from behind (back lit).
Back lit LED is the best of these really, in the right TV, because they can be individually controlled for bright and dark parts of THE SAME picture.
Having said that, you can get cheap junk that is 'LED' these days so it's not a sign of quality.
One sign of cheap junk is usually having a built in DVD player, I'd rather keep it separate...
A good brand, at 32 inch, shouldn't have these problems, for example, on a dresser, rather than up near the ceiling.
You also say USB ports, but not what you want to do with them. You need to check each model to see what it can do through USB, they're not all the same.

esuhl

All LED-lit screens use an LCD. So it's a choice of CCFL or LED; not LCD or LED!

Anyway, I don't think that the type of backlighting will affect viewing angles. If you have a certain type of LCD TV, I guess it will have the same viewing angles whether it uses CCFL or LED backlighting.

bob_a_builder

Look for an IPS panel for the best viewng angles

Bought a non IPS for the Kitchen, but seeing as it gets viewed from all over the room, the viewing angles ( both height and L to Right) were very poor

Changed it for an IPS version - spot on !