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if you're in the market for a tv or monitor you probably know that stores

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will try to sell you and how more is better bigger screens higher resolutions

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and increasingly more brightness indeed apple has recently announced an absurdly

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expensive 5 000 display and is touting the fact that it

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has 1600 nits of peak brightness but why

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does brightness matter so much and what the heck is a knit anyway well if you've

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ever tried to use a phone in direct sunlight where the screen couldn't get

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bright enough then you know that having sufficient brightness is incredibly

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important if you want to make out details on the screen even if you're

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lying in the dark with your phone turning the brightness all the way down

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to minimum can cause certain screen elements to be much harder to see than

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they would be if you turned up the brightness just a small amount but at

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the same time why is brightness suddenly such a hot selling point now like you

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probably don't have very many problems making out what's happening on your

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run-of-the-mill tv set or monitor that you got a black friday so what's going

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on well as visual fidelity has increased on our displays manufacturers have

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sought other ways to enhance the viewing experience than simply cramming more

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pixels onto the screen or making your tvs and monitors bigger and recently

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displays with high dynamic range or HDR

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have promised notably better detail than devices without it you can learn more

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about HDR up here but the basic idea is that HDR capable displays attempt to

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show brighter brights and darker darks than standard displays and HDR sets can

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also typically display a wider color grammar all of which adds up to a

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crisper more realistic image but simply

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supporting an HDR protocol may not be enough for you to tell a huge difference

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in picture quality in order to bring out those sharper details and richer colors

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that HDR screens promise they need to be able to hit certain amounts of

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brightness this is where those knits come in which are a measure of

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brightness commonly used for electronic displays many average tvs and monitors

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can only get up to a few hundred nits peak brightness but for HDR content the

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general baseline is that you want your display to be able to hit 1 000 nits at

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peak for true HDR now 1 000 nits is

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fairly bright and you might even be uncomfortable with something that bright

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if you're sitting really close to your monitor like if you're gaming for example but the idea is that an HDR tv

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worth its salt will only put out that much light in certain situations that is

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when there's an image on the screen that needs additional illumination because

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certain parts of it feature bright colors so you probably won't need to

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worry about putting on a pair of sunglasses just to enjoy your shiny new

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HDR display and the higher peak brightness the more versatility the

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screen will have to accurately reproduce more types of visual content in fact

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sony demonstrated a 10 000 nit prototype 8k tv at the consumer electronics show

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in 2018 which by all accounts delivered fantastic looking results because of the

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huge variety of scenes it could faithfully display and because under

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normal circumstances your screen is only going to get that bright on tiny areas

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or quick flashes there's even been interest in going even higher especially

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for settings like movie theaters but how much is too much i mean apple's pricey

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new monitor claims a 1 000 nit typical brightness meaning that's what you'll

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usually be exposed to as opposed to it being a maximum that only activates when

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necessary well the answer is it really depends on how you perceive the

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experience if you're checking out a high-end display at your local big box

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store and it's so brilliant that your eyes feel uncomfortable then of course

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you might want to pass on it but i would say that there's nothing wrong with getting the highest knit display that

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your eyes and your wallet can handle while making sure you're not spending

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way too much just to get the highest net count that you can get on the market

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today as a thousand it peak brightness screen should look good enough to

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satisfy most people and just in case you're wondering the

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sun is about 1.6 billion nits so definitely don't go that high you'll

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