What if the blue LED never came to be... « on: October 30, 2017, 12:48:41 AM » Author: HomeBrewLamps
So i was just laying staring up into the ceiling, noticing the warm colour of my lights i sparked a question, What if blue LED's never came to be and we were just stuck with the traditional Red yellows and yellowishgreens? I'd assume that alot of the tech we have today would be bulkier, possibly backlit by CCFL and none of the LED flashlights, streetlights, or anything involving white LED's would Exist... nor would any green, aqua or UV LED's ... the HID flashlight industry would be booming... street lighting would remain unthreatend by LED's, plasma TV's would still be common, VFD's would be far more common, and I'm sure neon would be a hella more common (neons been making somewhat of a comeback around here though). the world would likely be entirely different.
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	Re: What if the blue LED never came to be... « Reply #1 on: October 30, 2017, 01:21:53 AM » Author: dor123
LED threatend VFD even before the blue LED was commercialized, VFD and even LED calculators became obsolete even during the 80's, because of the low energy consumption of LCD displays. Plasma TV disappeared without relation to the LED backlit LCD TVs. Even CCFL backlit LCD TV still had advantages over plasma TVs, in terms of no picture burning, slimmer and more compact, and less power consumption. There were no reasons for the LED lighting to be a disruptive innovation for the electric lighting, as it have a lot of disadvantages over electric lighting. It is just Philips that wanted to force it on us, to make money, by making a cartel with Cree and other large lighting companies, and politicians and greenies.
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	Re: What if the blue LED never came to be... « Reply #3 on: October 30, 2017, 03:56:16 PM » Author: Lumex120
tl:dr, the world would be a much better place for us lighting enthusiasts.
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	Re: What if the blue LED never came to be... « Reply #5 on: November 04, 2017, 08:13:37 AM » Author: funkybulb
It would be like  going back to early 90s ,  prolly MV would still be made,  like ash  said be more CMH lighting.  Stores still have some of there high bay lighting.
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	Re: What if the blue LED never came to be... « Reply #11 on: November 11, 2017, 01:30:19 AM » Author: dor123
Phones that uses CCFL for backlighting, can have very short battery life. The reasons why the Sega Game Gear, Sega Nomad and the Atari Lynx, has a very short battery life compared to the Nintendo Gameboy, is because they had CCFL backlit LCD display, and not LCD DMD with depends on the outside lighting, like the Gameboy had.
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Please forgive me if my choice of my words looks like offensive, while that isn't my intention.

I only working with the international date format (dd.mm.yyyy).

I lives in Israel, which is a 220-240V, 50hz country.

	Re: What if the blue LED never came to be... « Reply #12 on: November 11, 2017, 09:28:05 AM » Author: HomeBrewLamps
That would likely get battery research and development on the priority list.
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