So Hitachi is showing off their super high contrast ratio (8,000,000:1)
"hybrid" LCD at CEATEC today, and we'll be completely honest, we were totally underwhelmed. As we learned before, the panel uses two LCDs -- one panel, and one LCD projector firing into the panel -- to achieve those higher-end contrast ratio numbers, but to these eyes everything just looked grainy and mushy, and the viewing angle and 700cd/m2 brightness were nothing to write home about. For our money, when it comes to uncommercialized / prototype display systems,
SED,
OLED, and even a really good LCD or plasma produce far better pictures. Perhaps we'll have to revisit this one in a year or two when Hitachi irons out the kinks.
posted Oct 2nd 2007 2:46AM
Doesn't look very contrasty to me... OLEDed!
Blame that on the digital camera and/or the source player/content (disc) may not even be able or outputting that much detail. Seeing in person is believing.
Oh boy.. Does this mean that the contrast ratio is now the TV equivalent of the camera megapixels, i.e. a somewhat relevant attribute has now been taken over by marketing as the ONLY relevant measurement of picture quality.