Glossary: Contrast Ratio

The ratio of brightness to darkness of a scene. Most projector and plasma screen manufacturers quote "full on/full off" contrast ratio which is the difference between white light being displayed and black.

• Capacitive touchscreens
• CCD
• Chroma
• Chroma Corrector
• Chroma delay
• Chroma noise
• Closed captioning
• CMYK
• Colour banding
• Colour depth
• Colour Difference
• Colour Space
• Combing
• Component Video
• Composite
• Compression
• Convergence

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