Figures from Us market research group NPD indicate that the Korean manufacturer Samsung captured almost 95% of the LED TV market for the first six months of 2009.

The sales figures for LED TV's are a reward for the considerable gamble taken by Samsung with a huge investment in this innovative technology. Worldwide Samsung have sold around 650,000 LED TV's this year.

The impressive inroads into the LED market are due in no small part to the introduction of a more affordable range of LED TV's this year, Samsung's 6000, 7000 and 8000 series.

LED TVs use a technology which replaces the traditional always-on single bar-style fluorescent backlight present on the majority of LCD's with hundreds of Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). Samsung's new LED TV's employ 'edge-mounted' rather than 'localy-dimmed' ('direct') technology present on more expensive implementations.

Commentators were rather sceptical when Samsung claimed that edge-mounted LED's could produce better contrast than locally dimmed LED's if set up correctly and that they could actually react faster to changes in picture brightness.

Confounding the sceptics, first impressions indicate that Samsung's B7000 series does offer black levels which are comparable, if not better than Samsung's and other manufacturers LED TV's which implement 'direct' LED's.

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