Let the sun shine: LED backlighting, sunlight-readable displays are all the rage.(Perspective)

Wandering the floor of last month's Society for Information Display (SID) show in Long Beach, Calif., I thought back to when I was a kid watching my family's first TV, a 10-inch Hallicrafters in glorious black and white. Who then would have dreamt of a thin 108-inch set--in COLOR!--like the one mounted in the Sharp booth?

But enough of my drooling over something that won't ever make it to my living room wall. The hot topics at SID, it seems to me, were the emergence of LEDs to replace fluorescent backlighting, and the growth of sunlight-readable displays. In many cases