Dr. Eli Peli, lead investigator of the study at S.E.R.I. had found that by increasing the contrast of details of certain sizes television watching could be made more enjoyable for people with low vision.

The information from the study will aid in the development of an electronic device that will help millions with low vision due to macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and other eye diseases.

Peli and his team found that patients liked the images that reflected their own individual settings for contrast and details, more than the unenhanced video. However, personal preferences for those individual settings were only slightly higher than for the arbitrarily enhanced images.

Peli, a trained optometrist, has devoted his career to creating and evaluating new technologies to help low-vision patients regain their ability to do these tasks. The fact that he was previously an electrical engineer aids him in his current pioneering work.