Screen contrast and brightness are easily adjusted for comfortable viewing in any lighting conditions.
The XBR LED Internet TV features Sony's Intelligent Peak LED Backlight which uses full-array local dimming for better detail in black, and improved brightness creating incredible on-screen contrast.
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Over on the small screen, the contrast between Globe contenders and Emmy Award hopefuls is often that much more stark.
But it also promised a higher-contrast screen, faster page turning, more battery life and storage and, most importantly, a sleek new design that erases the clunky-looking asymmetry of Amazon's first crack at the gadget.
Tilt the screen downward and the contrast quickly plummets, and the color balance appears pretty sickly when gazing onward from any other direction.
They persuaded the festival to screen a strand of Sherlock Holmes films - a rare chance to compare and contrast some very different screen portrayals, from the recent thriller Reichenbach Falls to Buster Keaton and Douglas Fairbanks' take on the pipe smoking detective.
Kindle Paperwhite's screen has 25% higher contrast - the blacks are blacker, and the whites are whiter.
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Among them: The look of the ink varied by batch and there was uneven contrast on the screen.
Kindle Paperwhite's screen has 25% higher contrast than the previous generation Kindle- the blacks are blacker, and the whites are whiter.
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The new tablet should also be attractive to current Kindle customers who are not wedded to the high contrast E Ink screen (which has less glare and is great for outdoor reading).
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Without busting out the contrast spectrometer to test Amazon's claim, I'm going to go with what I can see, and when compared to my last-generation Kindle, it's clear Amazon has indeed increased the contrast of the screen.
The TL350 is equipped with a three-inch AMOLED screen providing users with a higher contrast ratio, deeper blacks and more accurate, vivid colors, even when viewed from an angle or in direct sunlight.
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Featuring LED Plus technology, the LX6500 combines edge lighting and local dimming for greater control of individual sections of the picture, based on the actual on-screen content which will deliver better contrast, amazing clarity and color detail, as well as greater energy efficiency compared to conventional LCD TVs.
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Consumers' acceptance of Wal-Mart's flat-screen TVs and other expensive gizmos is a stark contrast to their rejection of its higher-end clothing.
Super Contrast Booster maximizes contrast and brightness by enhancing parts of the screen where necessary.
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NuvoMedia, in contrast, uses its own "transflective" screen technology.
In contrast to existing tablets, its unprecedented dual screen presentation and usability allows its displays to be combined and used as a large screen or for different functions such as playing video on one screen while showing control buttons on the other.
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Germany's DNP has unveiled the Supernova Flex Screen, which claims to deliver "ten times" the contrast and "double" the brightness compared to standard screens when used in daylight.
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By contrast, an iMac with a comparable 20-inch diagonal screen weighs in at just 20 pounds.
So the first Apple TV boxes couldn't tap the millions of new YouTube clips posted each month--in contrast, Apple's new iPhone made YouTube a special opening-screen feature.
It also sports an "ultrafine" .0065-millimeter pitch along with a "high-contrast filter" that allows the projected image to be reflected by the screen while it absorbs incidental light from other sources.
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The intelligent contrast engine constantly analyzes the signal and enhances the brightness of the bright objects on the screen while maintaining the black levels on the rest of the screen.
The process of marrying the screen to the tablet using different forms of chemical bonds prevents condensation, delivers cleaner text, improves contrast, and reduces glare and light reflectivity making the tablet easier to read outdoors.
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In our trial of the Kindle 2, its screen technology was barely distinguishable from the older model in terms of faster page refreshes and identical in terms of contrast.
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