Display characteristics

This is quite an interesting read, although it goes well past my level of interest in the topic. I suspect it may be right up Stefan's alley, though.
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Al

What a great article! Thankyou.

Very interesting and eye opening. Shouldn't be surprised really, that commercial companies are in a battle of one upmanship for sales.

Thanks for the link. Amazing stuff. I had wondered whether someone would claim infinite contrast ratio (simply by turning the backlighting off!). Does debunk so much of the marketing.
Andy

Thanks for the link, only knew about the dynamic contrast thing.

The same thing happens also with lenses now, they say that you for example get much better bokeh with rounded or more blades but that's only a small part of the story.
Just compare the DFA 100mm and the DFA 100mm WR, they both have the same optics but the WR has rounded blades.
But of course it's a thing that's easy to advertise, the same is true for calling a zoom lens Macro only to make it more interesting.

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yes flossie you are right it is really very good article and it have great information.thanks for this Aero.

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Well you do have these monitors.
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Here is a full explanation on how they do it link

The price start at $25.000,00 just in case you want one.

Sad but true. Was bad even for CRT's but the LCD specs started out wrong and then got worse over time.

All you can really do if your not in a professional setting with calibration equipment and a budget to match is try to research the panel type and whether it is really 6-bit or 8-bit, and then change the color temperature when you get it. Leaving the rest of the settings alone unless you have guidance that it will really improve something. (Color temperature is always set way too high on monitors and TVs so that they "look good" under intense sodium lighting in block stores.)

Also remember that the 60/120/240Hz numbers are usually 50/100/200Hz in Europe. But the author's point on 100/120Hz "upgrades" is very valid. Take the otherwise pretty good Samsung 5 and 6 series LCD TVs. Using same panels (with just a few differences as to what is actually enabled in the same firmware set) the primary difference is the 50/100Hz "refresh rate". I've read several tests out on the 'Net showing results of the 6 Series as worse than the 5 Series due to higher number of artefacts - unless the 100Hz option is disabled!

And in many cases you'd be better off buying an LCD monitor manufactured a few years back. Many of the touted improvements esp. in typically used panels are simply cost reductions - ie. manufacturing "improvements" which please the cost accountants not technical improvements, in fact with things like dithered 6-bit they are anything but!

BTW, if you enjoy watch a movie or 2 on your home TV, I'd advise you not to study these artifact issues too closely. Once you've trained your visual receptors to detect video artifacts you will never be able to not see them again.