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TechTips: Contrast Ratio - Dynamic vs Static

Have you ever looked at video on a (non-ToteVision) TV or monitor and noticed the white areas were not very white, or maybe the black areas looked gray? What you were seeing is the contrast of the monitor, and while it could be adjusted through changing the settings, there is a specific contrast ratio that was created when the LCD panel was made; it is a limitation of the panel.

Contrast ratio is an essential specification that indicates the difference between the lightest (white) area of an image on the monitor/TV screen and the darkest (black) area. It is depicted as a larger number compared to the number ‘one’ (ie. 1,000:1 which we refer to as “one thousand to one contrast”). We consider ‘one’ as the baseline and the other number as the range of contrast; the larger the number, the greater the contrast.

There are two types of contrast numbers and the variance between them is typically huge and getting bigger all the time. Click to read more. http://bit.ly/2sUtVhn