For what it's worth, the material safety data sheet on the website claims up to 3 power packs are allowed in airplane cabins.

Multiple shots is necessary when doing high dynamic range photography. Most cameras are limited in their dynamic range due to a global white balancing. By taking multiple shots at different ranges (typically adjusted using exposure compensation settings) and combining them in postprocessing, you can get images that look more realistic (i.e., how you or I would normally see the scene). Hope this helps.

More likely it's just how the light reflects off the letters. If the light is dead on, it should reflect brightly but if the light source is on an obtuse angle, you might not see the letters.

Personally I'd like to see the chip in some decent 1080 HD camcorders, but it'll most likely make its way to DVDR settop boxes first.

How does one give a ticket to a bicycle rider who is not carrying any ID? As far as I know, NJ doesn't have a "bicycling" license nor requires one to carry ID while bicycling. And given the number of teenagers with cell phones who don't have driver's licenses, I'm unsure how this could be constitutionally implemented.

100,000:1 seems pointless unless the video source actually contains that much information. Since most media displayed on a HDTV like this is bound to be digital, it's already limited. Sure the black (0 red, 0 blue, 0 green) value is going to be darker on this tv than on a 1000:1 tv, but as other people mentioned, ambient light will reak havoc on contrast anyway...

GhostDoggy,

Akin to what DaMan wrote, there are many reasons the contrast near the man in the picture looks better than what's on the TV. Remember, you're looking at a digital photo of a tv under less than ideal settings. I'm not exactly sure how the tv's contrast was measured, but the perceived contrast and the actual contrast are not always the same. With actual contrast (Michelson), they're measuring the luminance of a white spot vs the luminance of a black spot in isolation (i.e., the only light source is the TV). Perceived contrast also involves reflected light, distribution of light elements in the picture, etc. And let's not forget, the camera is taking a picture of the TV at an non-orthogonal angle, which typically reduces contrast with most types of technologies (not sure with SED though). Anyhoo...

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