What is Contrast ratio?
Have you been in the market for a new TV lately if so you've probably noticed that the TV manufacturers and big-box stores use a number of tricks to lure you in, they mostly focus their advertising on the same stuff high resolutions huge screen sizes and rock-bottom prices all designed to convince you to buy them but there's a crucial often ignored element, one that is arguably the biggest determinant of overall picture quality Constrast Ratio. But what the heck is that, well although it's not something that's always easy to find if you're buying a TV or a monitor off the shelf at a brick-and-mortar store but you should have encountered contrast ratio at some point on a spec page if you're shopping online. What do those values one thousand to one 1 billion to one even mean??? Well you see contrast ratio is essentially the difference between the brightest white that a screen can produce and the darkest black, which is very important because having the corr...