Great idea, but I have yet to see any of these systems work right. My Mitsubishi rear projection CRT used a function called "IRIS" to do this. On paper it seemed great, but in reality you get a TV that is constantly jacking its own brightness up an down. I hope this is a lot better.
well, theres 2 different things... light sensor adjusts backlight according to what the room light is, independant of whats on the display.
IRIS, and sony's ACE, and other implementations of dynamic contrast will continually adjust the backlight according to whats on the display. Where it gets confused is when the tv displays a bright white and deep black at the same time.
Turn both dynamic contrast AND light sensor on, and you get unpredictable and uncontrollable results.
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Great idea, but I have yet to see any of these systems work right. My Mitsubishi rear projection CRT used a function called "IRIS" to do this. On paper it seemed great, but in reality you get a TV that is constantly jacking its own brightness up an down. I hope this is a lot better.
well, theres 2 different things... light sensor adjusts backlight according to what the room light is, independant of whats on the display.
IRIS, and sony's ACE, and other implementations of dynamic contrast will continually adjust the backlight according to whats on the display. Where it gets confused is when the tv displays a bright white and deep black at the same time.
Turn both dynamic contrast AND light sensor on, and you get unpredictable and uncontrollable results.