http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/ Engadget Comments for Sharp's 1,000,000:1 Mega-Contrast Premium LCD vs regular LCD http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/
LOL..]]>Jan 15th 2007 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/Jan 15th 2007 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/Jan 15th 2007 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/Jan 15th 2007 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/
This freakin' makes me cry, knowing contrast like this is out there... albeit far out of my price range.]]>Jan 15th 2007 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/Jan 15th 2007 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/Jan 15th 2007 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/
I saw pictures and that thing was sick...about half an inch thick...and beautiful color and black reproduction. ]]>Jan 15th 2007 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/Jan 15th 2007 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/Jan 16th 2007 12:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/
Some LCDs list their "dynamic contrast" in that range, but that includes manually adjusting the backlight, not available contrast for normal viewing (unless you like adjusting the backlight on the fly while you watch movies...) Most LCD's "usable" contrast is in the 1200 to 2000:1 area.

10k:1 contrast is plasma territory.]]>Jan 15th 2007 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/Jan 19th 2007 6:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/Jan 15th 2007 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/Jan 15th 2007 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/
On the other hand, it's quite clear that the monitor on the left is losing a lot of highlight detail - look at the planetary views in some of the shots.

My guess is they jacked up the brightness of the monitor on the left. Honestly, even in fairly low-contrast LCD's, I've *never* seen contrast this bad. Look at it this way: not even CRT's, with their deep blacks, approach anything like "1,000,000:1" contrast ratios. Contrast ratio really has nothing to do with black level. It's like knowing a car's top speed and trying to infer its 0-60 time from that. You're missing several key pieces of info. Speed and quickness are not the same thing, and neither are contrast and black level.

The screen on the right clearly has very good black levels. But I'm not convinced from these pics, which are obviously set up to favor the more expensive model, that it's really any better than any other LCD screen. It may have a higher *white level* threshold, but that's absolutely useless beyond a certain level - nobody wants to feel like they're staring at the sun while watching TV or movies. White level is a lot easier for an LCD to do than black level, so it's one way a lot of these companies manipulate their contrast ratio numbers.
]]>Jan 15th 2007 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/
We need to go back to B&W and read more books! ]]>Jan 15th 2007 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/Jan 15th 2007 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/Jan 15th 2007 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/Jan 15th 2007 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/
a really good display , calibrated properly, will have very deep blacks, and you will still be able to see the details in the shadows.]]>Jan 15th 2007 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/Jan 15th 2007 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/]]>Jan 15th 2007 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/Jan 16th 2007 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/
contrast ratio, is to do with the difference between dark and bright colours. With high contrast ratio shadows and detail should be better. Ideally you want to be able to see all of the background detail like the stars in the first image, but have the black level the same as the one in the second one.

Like for sonys oled tvs, they showed off high contrast high quality digital photo type shots on the screen. You could see, that the red in one flower was ever so slightly lighter than the other, you could see the shadows, you could see the texture for want of better word. I dont see that contrast level in this tv. ]]>Jan 16th 2007 8:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/
It helps to understand that lower contrast rations produce black pixels that STILL "emit" light.]]>Jan 16th 2007 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2005/10/04/brightside_hdr_edr/1.html]]>Jan 16th 2007 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/But a good HD CRT projector will get the job done as well.]]>Jan 17th 2007 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/Jan 18th 2007 7:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/sharps-1-000-000-1-mega-contrast-premium-lcd-vs-regular-lcd/
I'm know that my Macbook doesn't have that contrast ratio, so yeah. I wish I could see one of these sets for myself though.]]>Jan 22nd 2007 12:03PM