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Electricpig: We’ve managed to get our mitts on a Philips 42PFL9803 LCD television, one of the very first HDTVs to feature LED backlighting.

Most LCD televisions have poor black levels due to the lights behind the screen, which can’t be turned off – so light leaks through the black parts of the picture, making them look grey.

Not so with this “LED Lux” TV – it uses hundreds of LED clusters to light the picture, each of which can be completely switched off when needed. So while you might have a bright object in the middle of the picture, any black areas around it are unlit – so they actually look black.

It also comes loaded with Philips best picture processing and 100Hz tech, which helps by smoothing out motion judder, cleaning up noise and enhancing colours and contrast.

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T3: Philips has claimed its new backlit LED TV offers better picture quality than its flagship Aurea II television.

The 42PFL9803 incorporates a new technology called LED LUX, which equips screens with 1152 individual LEDs making up 128 segments, each of which can be dimmed independently allowing certain parts of the display to produce bright whites and the rest to remain deep black.

The Aurea II uses conventional LCD technology, meaning that its backlight can either be switched on or off.

Up until now, Philips has claimed the Aurea II to be its ultimate TV in terms of picture quality and design.

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