Is it bad if your HDTV has a low Contrast?

The lower the contrast the less crisp your picture will be and you want vivid red, blue, green.  If you have a HDTV and your contrast is around 600.  You have a very low end tv and you should try and take it back to the store.  You can get a HDTV with a better contrast ratio for the same money if you just look for the contrast ratio number.  You want to look for a HDTV that has at least 3000 contrast ratio and a refresh rate of 8ms or lower.  That wont break your wallet to much.  The high end HDTV's have 12,000 contrast ratio's, to give you some idea of what to look for as in a range.  Try to get a 27 or 32 inch Samsung Slimfit CRT HDTV.  You can get one for 750 bucks at www.curcuitcity.com , Good Luck.