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A high-contrast display from recycled parts

Summary

An old LCD panel and a projector are combined into a display whose local illumination clearly improves the black level. The original video has the ID qXrn4MqY1Wo. Two imperfect old devices can reach a new class of quality together.

Ideas

  • A projector can deliberately replace the uniform backlight of an LCD.
  • The image signal and the projected brightness mask have to line up geometrically exactly.

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