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Re: if plasmas are brighter, why do they not seem so?

The brightness of a LCD panel is determined by how bright the backlight is. This means that you can make the panel almost arbitrarily bright. Brightness alone, however, does not make a good looking display. If you make the whites brighter you will also make the blacks brighter. What you need brightness for is brightly lit environments. For the average living room the more important measure is contrast ratio. The contrast ratio of a plasma display is many times that of a LCD. This is why they look better than LCD's, at least when they're new.


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