Sharp LCD Display with 1,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio

i4u writes "Sharp announces in Japan that it has developed a LCD display with the world's highest contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1. The Sharp ASV Premium LCD display panel has a size of 37 inch, 1920x1080 pixel resolution and a brightness of 500cd/m2. Sharp aims the Mega Contrast LCD display at the professional TV and movie production industry. For comparison the Canon and Toshiba developed SED TV has 100,000:1 contrast ratio."

Comments

WARNING

[LiquidCoooled]

Do not look into the Sharp LCD Display with your remaining eye.

Re:WARNING

[Anonymous Coward]

It's at this point that porn suddenly becomes dangerous.

Re:WARNING

[Eccles]

Nigel Tufnel: It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.

Re:WARNING

[Anpheus]

We should be aiming for 0 K black body emissions or else it doesn't have enough contrast for me. I demand the best.

Re:WARNING

[ePhil_One]

We should be aiming for 0 K black body emissions or else it doesn't have enough contrast for me. I demand the best.

Quantum singularity. It should be so black it actually sucks the light out of neighboring pixels.

my eye does not meet its requirements

[bariswheel]

I don't think my eyes are good enough for that...I'll have to have another talk with my lasik surgeon that cheap rat bastard...

Re:my eye does not meet its requirements

[timeOday]

And how am I even supposed to know how much improvement this provides over my current monitor when the article does not provide a screenshot of the new monitor!? Let's face it, there hasn't been any improvement in displays during my lifetime. Every time I see a TV commercial for the latest high-tech TV, its brightness and clarity is at most 50% better than the TV I have now, subjectively, and that just isn't worth my hard-earned cash. Not when I can put the money where it really makes a difference, like expensive wine, high-end audio equipment, and Nike shoes.

Re:Article

[screwballicus]

110 words, the rest is ads. What an absolutely useless website.

This ignores the fact that these 110 words are themselves basically an ad for the product. My thoughts were something more along the lines of "a 110 word ad, paid for by a plethora of ads surrounding it. What an absolutely useless website."

Re:Contrast Ratio

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh, it is ten times better, it really is.

misprint

[Anonymous Coward]

Cmdr Taco misread, the actual ratio was 1,000,000:1,000.

What the heck does that mean?

[Anonymous Coward]

"#000000" = black hole; do not touch screen or you'll lose a finger as not even light can escape a black pixel on this display

"#ffffff" = surface of sun; again, do not touch. In fact, wear these protective goggles.

Re:What the heck does that mean?

[aug24]

Reminds me of the bash.org snippet:

"What does whiter than white mean?"
"#GGGGGG"

J.

Do you actually think this is a display?

[ProppaT]

(1) 1x10^6:1 LCD screen + (1) monkey holding a magnifying glass = "Tartar Word Domination!!!"

You could frickin' blow up the moon with that laser.

So...

[carguy84]

Will we finally know Michael Jackson's true color?

Re:Article

[TheRaven64]

My thoughts were something more along the lines of "a 110 word ad, paid for by a plethora of ads surrounding it. What an absolutely useless website."

Odd. My thoughts were `a 110 word ad, paid for, and additional ads, also paid for. Why didn't I think of this business model?'

Obligatory Linus quote

[halleluja]

I have _never_ seen a display that was both big enough to be useful _and_ accurate.

Sharp LCD Display with 1,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio

[Saiyine]

Sharp LCD Display with 1,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio

Yeah, but does it got better resolution than the real world?


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Not that good contrast, really

[Sulka]

I saw a photo of the screen on a website and the contrast looks exactly like my current screen. Where's the improvement?

New graviton compression technology

[tgd]

That must use dilithium crystals to push warp plasma through etched conduits to cause a graviton compression wave creating a warp field bubble at each black pixel, forming a microscopic black hole ensuring the pixel is perfectly black.

Seriously though, I close my eyes and things aren't perfectly black, so I'm not sure 10^6:1 is all that useful.

Re:Announcements I'd like to read instead

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you stupid or just dumb?

Do you know what contrast means?
If so, do you what it means when you have a very high contrast ratio combined with a "normal" brightness?

I'll give you a hint. It's something to do with darkness.

Re:Article

[h4rm0ny]

Never mind the descriptions - give me the SCREENSHOTS! I want to see how good this quality is.

Frickin' laser beams

[John Jorsett]

Does any else get the mental image of turning on this monitor and suddenly having every square inch of one's face pierced by tiny little pixel-sized laser beams?

I guess that's like a "GUI User Interface"

[mjeppsen]

Hmm, "LCD Display"...that must be something like a "GUI User Interface". Can we mod the original story as "Redundant"? :-)

Matthew Jeppsen
www.FresHDV.com

Re:It can be handy

[TheOldSchooler]

This will be a real boon to the medical industry, especially Dr. Nick. "And those smudges that look like my fingerprints... that's trauma!"