4K / HDR Performance TL; DR: LG has cranked up
the peak brightness for this high performing HDR OLED, and colour vibrancy is high.
The Peak Brightness for the OLED Galaxy Smartphones have been steadily increasing, to over 1,000 nits for the Galaxy Note7, which is used in implementing the new HDR High Dynamic Range modes and content, and for improved display performance in ambient lighting.
When Automatic Brightness is turned On, the iPhone 7 produces up to an impressive 705 cd / m2 (nits) in High Ambient Light, where high Brightness is really needed — the Highest
Peak Brightness for a Smartphone for any Average Picture Level APL, including Full Screen White.
• When Automatic Brightness is turned On, the iPhone 7 produces up to an impressive 705 nits in High Ambient Light, where high Brightness is really needed — the Highest
Peak Brightness for a Smartphone for any Average Picture Level APL, including Full Screen White.
Not exact matches
For an LBV to explain SDSS1133, the star must have been in nearly continual eruption from at least 1950 to 2001, when it reached
peak brightness and went supernova.
Below we list the
Peak Display
Brightness, Screen Reflectance, and DisplayMate Contrast Rating
for High Ambient Light
for each of the tested Smartphones.
The other Tablets have somewhat higher
Peak Brightness, but since the Surface Pro 3 is larger it is less likely to be opened outdoors in unshielded high ambient light environments like Smartphones and smaller Tablets, its somewhat lower (but still Very Good)
Peak Brightness of 371 cd / m2 (nits) should not be an issue
for most users and applications.
High screen
Brightness is only needed when working in High Ambient Light, but since the Surface Pro 3 is larger it is less likely to be opened outdoors in unshielded high ambient light environments like Smartphones and smaller Tablets, so its somewhat lower (but still Very Good)
Peak Brightness should not be an issue
for most users and applications.
High screen
Brightness is only needed when working in High Ambient Light, but since the Surface 3 is larger it is less likely to be used outdoors in unshielded high ambient light environments like Smartphones and smaller Tablets, so its somewhat lower (but still Very Good)
Peak Brightness should not be an issue
for most users and applications.
· A record high
Peak Brightness of over of 1,000 nits, which improves screen visibility in very high Ambient Light, and provides the very high screen
Brightness needed
for HDR.
High screen
Brightness is only needed when in High Ambient Light, but since the Surface Pro 4 is larger it is less likely to be opened outdoors in unshielded high ambient light environments like Smartphones and smaller Tablets, so its
Peak Brightness should not be an issue
for most users and applications.
· A new record high
Peak Brightness of over of 1,000 nits, which improves screen visibility in very high Ambient Light, and provides the very high screen
Brightness needed
for HDR.
display performance improvements in the new Galaxy S6 models, including higher resolution, higher absolute color accuracy, better calibration, higher
peak brightness, better screen visibility and readability in high ambient light, and higher display power efficiency, resulting in a number of new performance records
for Smartphone displays.
· A record high
Peak Brightness of over of 1,000 nits, which improves screen visibility in very high Ambient Light, and provides the high screen
Brightness needed
for HDR.
Our detailed series of DisplayMate Lab tests that are listed below show that there are many significant display performance improvements in the new Galaxy S6 models, including higher resolution, higher absolute color accuracy, better calibration, higher
peak brightness, better screen visibility and readability in high ambient light, and higher display power efficiency, resulting in a number of new performance records
for Smartphone displays.
The iPhone 6 Plus matches or breaks new records in LCD Smartphone display performance
for: Highest
Peak Brightness, Lowest Screen Reflectance, Highest (True) Contrast Ratio, Highest Contrast Rating in Ambient Light, most accurate (pure logarithmic power - law) Intensity Scale and Gamma, most accurate Image Contrast, and the smallest Variations with Viewing Angle
for Brightness, Contrast Ratio and Color.
· A new record high
Peak Brightness with over 1,000 nits, which improves screen visibility in very high Ambient Light, and provides the high screen
Brightness needed
for HDR.
The other tablets have somewhat higher
peak brightness, but since the Surface Pro 3 is larger it is less likely to be opened outdoors in unshielded high ambient light environments like smartphones and smaller tablets, its somewhat lower (but still very good)
peak brightness of 371 cd / m2 (nits) should not be an issue
for most users and applications.
Compared to the 4th generation, the screen reflectance decreased by 23 percent, the
peak brightness increased by 7 percent, and the contrast rating
for high ambient light increased by 32 percent — all good.
Our detailed lab tests show that there have been significant display performance improvements in the new Note models including higher resolution, higher absolute color accuracy with better calibration, higher
peak brightness with improved screen visibility and readability in high ambient light, and higher display power efficiency, resulting in a number of new records
for smartphone display performance.
· A new record high
Peak Brightness of over 1,200 nits, which improves screen visibility in very high Ambient Light, and provides the high screen
Brightness needed
for HDR.
The values of 69 — 83 (depending on which
peak brightness value is used) is very high, so the Galaxy S is among the best mobile displays
for high ambient lighting.
It will be interesting to see how the Pixel 2 will incorporate and utilize the very high
Peak Brightness of greater than 1,000 nits that the latest OLED displays can produce, particularly
for the new HDR High Dynamic Range content, and
for improved display performance in ambient lighting.
· Another very noticeable and major improvement
for the Galaxy Note8 is the display is 22 % Brighter than the Galaxy S8, with a
Peak Display
Brightness of over 1,200 nits, a new Record
for Smartphones, which provides significantly improved display performance and screen readability in challenging indoor and outdoor high ambient light viewing conditions.
With Automatic
Brightness On the Galaxy Note8
Peak Luminance reaches 1,240 nits, a new Record
for Smartphones.
On the plus side, the iPhone 5 has a much higher
Peak Brightness (556 versus 421 to 491 cd / m2), a much lower Screen Reflectance (4.5 versus 5.6 to 6.5 percent), a much higher Contrast Rating
for High Ambient Light (121 versus 65 to 88), and therefore much better screen visibility in high ambient light.
Displaymate says that the major display enhancements introduced in the Note 7 include a new wider color gamut and new HDR mode specifically
for 4K videos and a record
peak brightness of over 1,000 nits.
But
for the Xoom the
Peak Brightness is systematically slowly lowered from 408 cd / m2 down to about 60 percent of
Peak and then it just stops and remains constant at 257 cd / m2.
The often overlooked Screen Reflectance is actually the most important parameter
for a mobile display, even more important than
Peak Brightness.
Compared to the 4th generation, the screen Reflectance decreased by 23 percent, the
Peak Brightness increased by 7 percent, and the Contrast Rating
for High Ambient Light increased by 32 percent — all good.
Aside from 4K resolution and a 10 - bit color depth, an Ultra HD Premium certificate also requires a wider BT.2020 color representation game and
peak brightness of over 1000 nits
for the best possible HDR experience.
Peak brightness is 302 candelas per square meter, which is a good result
for regular 1080p and 4K content.
The Element Plus bulbs are rated at 9.8 W
peak consumption, and offer 800 lumens of
brightness (said to be the equivalent of a 60W incandescent bulb), with a color temperature range of 2700K to 6500K (essentially adjustable from warm yellow to cool white), and are said to last
for up to 25,000 hours.
For 2017, LG improved peak brightness by about 20 percent, improved the lowest part of the black range, adding more subtle gradients for better shadow detail, changed the anti-reflective screen coating so that the display looks deep black when turned off (instead of casting a purple hue as LG's OLEDs have in prior years), and reduced input lag down to about 21
For 2017, LG improved
peak brightness by about 20 percent, improved the lowest part of the black range, adding more subtle gradients
for better shadow detail, changed the anti-reflective screen coating so that the display looks deep black when turned off (instead of casting a purple hue as LG's OLEDs have in prior years), and reduced input lag down to about 21
for better shadow detail, changed the anti-reflective screen coating so that the display looks deep black when turned off (instead of casting a purple hue as LG's OLEDs have in prior years), and reduced input lag down to about 21ms.
For Cinema settings, this means the TV will max out at about 540 nits, though the TV is capable of higher
peak brightness in Vivid and Standard picture modes.
· A 2.5 K High Resolution 2436 x 1125 Full HD + Display with 458 pixels per inch, and Diamond Sub-Pixels with Sub-Pixel Rendering
for enhanced sharpness and higher
Peak Brightness.
As the result of their very versatile power management capabilities, OLEDs are not only more power efficient than LCDs
for most image content, but they now deliver much higher
peak Brightness than LCDs because the maximum power can be delivered to just the sub-pixels that are needed
for producing the current image.
The first TV that comes to mind is Vizio's own M - series, but when you consider that the P - Series offers better contrast, higher
peak brightness, and overall better performance
for just a few hundred dollars more, this is one case in which it just makes more sense to spend that extra cash and go
for broke.
You've also got HDR Pro, which is a marketing term Samsung and other manufacturers use to imply that the color range of its TVs provide some of the benefits of HDR but don't quite hit the HDR10 standards
for peak brightness.
A record high
Peak Brightness of over of 1,000 nits, which improves screen visibility in very high Ambient Light, and provides the very high screen
Brightness needed
for HDR
We measured a very high
Peak Brightness of 602 cd / m2 (nits), the Highest
Peak Brightness that we have measured
for a Smartphone
for all Average Picture Levels APL, including Full Screen White.
For instance, there's a genuine sense of the expanded luminance range that's HDR's big attraction, with more dramatic
brightness peaks sitting right alongside those still beautifully inky blacks.
One,
for peak brightness to be more than 1,000 nits with a black level of less than 0.05 nits (we'll call that LCD; it's 0.03 nits
for mastering displays); two,
for peak brightness to be 540 nits with a black level of less than 0.0005 nits (we'll call that OLED).
This AMOLED also hits above 400 nits of
peak brightness, which is generally what I consider a good mark
for this type of display.
«Highest Absolute Color Accuracy
for any display
for Both Color Gamuts (1.35 JNCD), Lowest Screen Reflectance
for any mobile display (1.7 percent), Highest
Peak Brightness in a full size Tablet
for any Picture Level (511 nits), Highest Contrast Rating in High Ambient light (301), and Smallest Color variation with Viewing Angle (all under 2.0 JNCD).
Touting them as «QLED» sets, the new Samsung Q9 looks impressive indeed, using a new quantum dot technology that deploys a different metal
for the nano - sized quantum dots, enabling the LCD set to meet the 4K HDR demands
for a wider color gamut (up 20 percent over last year) and still more
brightness — now with
peak levels of between 1,500 and 2,000 nits.
The 55 - inch Philips 901F OLED TV,
for example, has a
peak brightness of around 650nits, which means it is capable of searing whites that share the same screen as deep, immersive black levels.
But beyond that - and perhaps more importantly - is that dynamic range capture has been widening and, through HDR (high dynamic range) presentation, the depth of black levels and
peak white
brightness for improved contrast, along with a broader colour palette, has increased considerably.
The Q7F notched a
peak brightness of 1,008.5 nits, compared with 684 nits
for the Sony Bravia and 446 nits
for the LG E7.
The other key metric
for a Premium - badged panel is a contrast ratio of at least 1,000 nits
peak brightness and less than 0.05 nits black level.