if you're in the market for a tv or monitor you probably know that stores
will try to sell you and how more is better bigger screens higher resolutions
and increasingly more brightness indeed apple has recently announced an absurdly
expensive 5 000 display and is touting the fact that it
has 1600 nits of peak brightness but why
does brightness matter so much and what the heck is a knit anyway well if you've
ever tried to use a phone in direct sunlight where the screen couldn't get
bright enough then you know that having sufficient brightness is incredibly
important if you want to make out details on the screen even if you're
lying in the dark with your phone turning the brightness all the way down
to minimum can cause certain screen elements to be much harder to see than
they would be if you turned up the brightness just a small amount but at
the same time why is brightness suddenly such a hot selling point now like you
probably don't have very many problems making out what's happening on your
run-of-the-mill tv set or monitor that you got a black friday so what's going
on well as visual fidelity has increased on our displays manufacturers have
sought other ways to enhance the viewing experience than simply cramming more
pixels onto the screen or making your tvs and monitors bigger and recently
displays with high dynamic range or HDR
have promised notably better detail than devices without it you can learn more
about HDR up here but the basic idea is that HDR capable displays attempt to
show brighter brights and darker darks than standard displays and HDR sets can
also typically display a wider color grammar all of which adds up to a
crisper more realistic image but simply
supporting an HDR protocol may not be enough for you to tell a huge difference
in picture quality in order to bring out those sharper details and richer colors
that HDR screens promise they need to be able to hit certain amounts of
brightness this is where those knits come in which are a measure of
brightness commonly used for electronic displays many average tvs and monitors
can only get up to a few hundred nits peak brightness but for HDR content the
general baseline is that you want your display to be able to hit 1 000 nits at
peak for true HDR now 1 000 nits is
fairly bright and you might even be uncomfortable with something that bright
if you're sitting really close to your monitor like if you're gaming for example but the idea is that an HDR tv
worth its salt will only put out that much light in certain situations that is
when there's an image on the screen that needs additional illumination because
certain parts of it feature bright colors so you probably won't need to
worry about putting on a pair of sunglasses just to enjoy your shiny new
HDR display and the higher peak brightness the more versatility the
screen will have to accurately reproduce more types of visual content in fact
sony demonstrated a 10 000 nit prototype 8k tv at the consumer electronics show
in 2018 which by all accounts delivered fantastic looking results because of the
huge variety of scenes it could faithfully display and because under
normal circumstances your screen is only going to get that bright on tiny areas
or quick flashes there's even been interest in going even higher especially
for settings like movie theaters but how much is too much i mean apple's pricey
new monitor claims a 1 000 nit typical brightness meaning that's what you'll
usually be exposed to as opposed to it being a maximum that only activates when
necessary well the answer is it really depends on how you perceive the
experience if you're checking out a high-end display at your local big box
store and it's so brilliant that your eyes feel uncomfortable then of course
you might want to pass on it but i would say that there's nothing wrong with getting the highest knit display that
your eyes and your wallet can handle while making sure you're not spending
way too much just to get the highest net count that you can get on the market
today as a thousand it peak brightness screen should look good enough to
satisfy most people and just in case you're wondering the
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