700:1 is the same contrast ratio that Apple's 30-inch display has. It's not "poor contrast performance" by most people's standards.
C-Net says "Some manufacturers use a full-screen contrast-test technique, which yields artificially inflated ratios that are much higher than those we obtain when using the checkerboard pattern." http://reviews.cnet.com/Labs/4520-6603_7-5112469.html
Granted, that page is about projectors, but I remain skeptical of any claims of radical contrast ratios.
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700:1 is the same contrast ratio that Apple's 30-inch display has. It's not "poor contrast performance" by most people's standards.
C-Net says "Some manufacturers use a full-screen contrast-test technique, which yields artificially inflated ratios that are much higher than those we obtain when using the checkerboard pattern."
http://reviews.cnet.com/Labs/4520-6603_7-5112469.html
Granted, that page is about projectors, but I remain skeptical of any claims of radical contrast ratios.