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Originally Posted by fjtorres
It's not as if there is any shortage of HDTVs with *side* lighting. So anybody writing about consumer electronics should know at least the difference between side-lighting and backlighting.
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The side light of HDTV is still a back light though. The light source may be on the sides, the light itself still goes through the back of the display. It can't actually go through the sides (light can't pass sideways into a display).
No one really cares about technicalities. Maybe backlight is simply a term to describe the light source of a display. Same way blackboards aren't black but green etc.