Hey, this sounds like a pretty worthwhile project to me! If this new technology can truly prevent TV smearing, then I believe a lot of future LCD TV owners will be more happy than you could ever know.

A flickering strip light usually calls for a quick replacement, but Philips Electronics figures it is the ideal lamp to rid thin screen televisions from their main shortcoming: image smearing.

Smearing, also known as ghosting, is a problem in thin liquid crystal display (LCD) televisions because the tiny pixels that create the image take time to switch on and off.

The problem, widely recognized as the main drawback of LCD TVs, is apparent in fast moving objects such as tennis balls, but even slower moving images get fuzzy around the edges. [Read the rest]