So what's wrong with using a red filter in front of the display?
This has the advantage of giving the display additional protection
against physical damage and a nice look when the display is off.
KISS

"Peter L. Peres" wrote:
>
> On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Pic Dude wrote:
>
> *>About to order a 24x2 or 40x2 LCD, but before I do....
> *>
> *>For either LED or EL-type backlit LCD's, can I change the backlight
> *>color easily (to red)?
>
> No.
>
> *>Okay, forget "easily" -- can it be done w/o
> *>destroying the display?
>
> Sometimes. Older displays had the backlight a slab of plastic with chip
> leds molded in it and you could take it out and change it for another.
>
> Newer displays almost always have the backlight unit laminated to the back
> polariser to improve light transfer. Attempts to take those off lead to
> bad results.
>
> Peter
>
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