[julie_m]

Every discussion forum needs to have a focus, otherwise it ends up with discussions about anything which peter out into discussions about nothing. And then it starts losing readers. The Internet is a big enough place already. If you want to talk about cars, then do so in your own bit of it. Links to private blogs are allowed here, and almost certainly preferred to off-topic posts.

Back on topic: LEDs are a technology I have seen mature in my own lifetime; from dim red indicator dots in the early 1970s, progressing through the spectrum in the 80s to blue and violet by the 1990s, and getting brighter with each iteration. The colour rendering has also improved vastly since the early bluish whites.

I'm replacing my CFLs with LEDs one by one as they fail; but it's going to be a rather slower process than the original process of replacing the original tungsten filament bulbs with CFLs!