Understanding consumers' desire for products that reduce their household energy costs, both of LG's 3D LED HDTVs have a variety of energy-saving features, such as Intelligent Sensor to automatically calibrate and optimize brightness, contrast, white balance and color, based on the ambient light in the room, thereby saving on energy output under most circumstances.

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Tilt the screen downward and the contrast quickly plummets, and the color balance appears pretty sickly when gazing onward from any other direction.

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That was a contrast from 2011, when the fortress balance sheets and more predictable earnings power of firms like JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo drew more buyers.

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In contrast, expanding state welfare would tilt the balance between state and market toward more government power and less individual responsibility.

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The overall net balance for projected export activity in the next three months was -3%, in contrast to 5% in the previous quarter and a huge drop from the 21% balance recorded in the same quarter last year.

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These anemic job numbers stand in contrast to the steadily improving financial results and strengthened balance sheets that corporate America has been reporting, quarter after quarter.

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Thankfully, there's a decent selection of tweaks you can play around with, including exposure, contrast, saturation, sharpness, and a set of white balance presets.

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This showed, in complete contrast to the government's almost untrammelled power at Westminster, the more even balance between the powers of the Scottish executive and its Parliament, and the ability of backbenchers to make progress with private members' bills.

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