April 15th, 2010

BenQ claims new LCD TV supports 12,000,000:1 contrast

For some strange reason, the contrast race seems to be on. TV’s seem to getting higher and high contrast ratio, but LG was claiming a 1,000,000,000:1 contrast ratio, and now BenQ is claiming a 12,000,000:1. → Read More

January 26th, 2010

New polarizer film to boost contrast of LCDs more than 10-fold

A Japanese company called Zeon claims it has developed a film for the polarizing plates of LCD screens that boosts picture contrast by more than an order of magnitude. The company is already selling films for those plates to LCD TV makers like Samsung whose screens are based on vertical alignment technology. It produces films for OLED screens, too.

Zeon’s new, so-called phase difference film… → Read More