High Dynamic Range Displays.

The article reports that the human eye is an incredible instrument. It has the ability to process a very high range of colors and even a larger range of luminance variations. Indeed, when one hear display contrast ratios like 500:1, 2000:1, or even 50,000:1, they ultimately pale to the roughly 1,000,000:1 luminance range of our eyes. And that is just why a small but growing number of applications, some as common as Adobe Photoshop CS2, and computer games are moving toward high dynamic range imagery (HDRI) and creating HDRI with as much as 16 bits per color. Now there is at least one such monitor. Brightside Technologies is a small Western Canadian company with the first HDR-capable display. Unfortunately for most consumers, Brightside's high dynamic range display; priced at $49,000 isn't likely to show up on individual desktops very soon. But, the technology is eye-opening and, hopefully, it's a glimpse at the future. To create a true HDR display, Brightside has exploited critical characteristic's of LEDs. As solid-state devices, LEDs can be turned on and off extremely quickly-within nanoseconds.