[tbolt]

Self illuminating pixels are ideal instead of a backlight illuminating the entire display

[marssaxman]

A big LED matrix? That would be cool. Do such monitors exist?

[iwanttocomment]

I think he's referring to OLED, in which each LED can organically emit light without the glow of a backlight. But in terms of most productivity monitors today, your current one was likely a great value and works just fine.