Samsung's UN65KS9800 at $ 3,999 provides literally twice as much
peak brightness as the OLED65G6, meaning it reaches the bright HDR parts the LG OLED simply can not reach.
Rather the 5.15 inch FHD panel of the Xiaomi Mi5 is the brightest of the lot with
a peak brightness as high as 600 nits.
Not exact matches
As the evening sky darkens during November, Venus will be near its
peak of
brightness low in the southwest.
It is well known that full array local dimming (FALD) backlight systems produce better black levels — and therefore better contrast —
as well
as higher
peak brightness, all while minimizing cloudiness and halos around bright objects on dark backgrounds.
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 21ms.
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.
It's not about
peak brightness,
as some believe.
Each TV will meet all the aforementioned criteria — including the 65 - inch size —
as well
as having 1000 nit
peak brightness, and an integrated NVIDIA SHIELD (that's the Android TV part).
Unfortunately this feature is restricted to auto -
brightness, so if you're a manual
brightness person, you won't achieve
peak brightness anywhere near
as high.
Additionally,
peak brightness (spots of brilliance, such
as exploding fireworks) has been increased by 25 percent, and a new anti-reflective treatment should reduce glare.
Pixels can suffer from lower aperture at higher resolutions,
as transistor sizes can't be shrunk further, reducing
peak brightness and wasting energy.
I am pretty darn sure it's the same generation panel
as the S8, but Apple has 3D Touch across the whole displays which adds an extra layer which could explain the
peak brightness, still plenty bright compared to LCD's.
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.
Stratospheric prices; lower
peak brightness than some LCD sets, uncertainty about how screens will fare over time, including whether they will retain «ghost» images (also known
as burn - in) from displaying a static picture for too long.
Regarding
peak brightness, which we measured in each set's Vivid mode, the E7 (446.5 nits) didn't fare
as well
as the Sony (684 nits); neither came anywhere near the Samsung's 1008 nits.