Projectors and Contrast Ratio

How is contrast measured in a home theater projector? Epson's Jeff Paiva dicsusses the difference between full on / full off contrast ratio and reveals the highest contrast ratio display he has ever tested in his years of experience.

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Science & Technology

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• projector
• contrast
• ratio
• Epson
• home
• theater
• projectors
• full
• on/full
• off

[albert2090]

Can you please measure Epson 6500UB projector?? I am looking at buying that projector but doesn't really believe the 75,000 contrast ratio:(

[ProjectorPeople]

The Epson 6500UB may not actually have a 75000:1 contrast ratio, but in our "1080p shootout" video the Epson 6500UB has the blackest blacks of them all - though some models come close. In reality most of the contrast numbers are inflated a bit. What matters more to most people is it's peformance in real life conditions - and the 6500UB is impressive in person. In the future we may do our own bench testing, but Audioholics, Projector Reviews and Projector Central have reviews up for this model.

[ProjectorPeople]

Jeff did not reveal the product with the 'spectacular' contrast level, even though we asked a few times. We will see if we can get it out of him next time he's here.

[chandermahan]

superb explanation..Thanks

[warlockboyburns]

wow he really likes projectors

[warlockboyburns]

is there a filter you can get for projectors to improve contrast ratio? (to put over the lense)

[archiscale]

thanks so much

[Ghaz013]

This video was great. They defined CR right at the beginning, very nice

[savere2006]

So if he was doing this for 15 years he should know what the best projector was to produce these contrast ratios and he doesn't mention anything.

[stryker7x]

most probably Pioneer Kuros for flat screens for projectors a crt projector

[lobotq]

Can you tell me what is the best projector