Watch Out: Crazy Contrast Ratios

We've been threatening to do this for a while, but now we're getting serious: in 2010, we are going after the ridiculous contrast ratios that monitor manufacturers claim to reach.

Instead of using a commonly-agreed benchmark, they instead seem to be in an arms race to create ever higher figures, and the result is more confusion for the consumer.

Can you still believe the tech specs on a monitor? If it's impossible to reach 10 000:1 or 8 000 000:1, what are manufacturers playing at by promising such contrast ratios?

Some monitor manufacturers are worse than Bernard Madoff: they promise you millions but you end up with nothing.  How have we come to have such a massive gulf between fact and fiction?  How can the specs be so wrong?  And is actual dishonesty involved, or are consumers also guilty of naively believing the marketing promises?

Let's take a look …

> Watch Out: Crazy Contrast Ratios

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