Sony prototype 8K 10,000 nit HDR display

[nathanddrews]

At CES 2018. It may not become a product anytime soon, but at least they have proven it can be done!

 

[Adul]

yes I enjoy eye searing brightness bring it on! 🙂

I already find my LG C7 a bit on the bright side at times, man I can't imagine dealing with 10000 nits.

 

[Aristotelian]

Oh my goodness. I haven't been on this forum in a while, but I'm still hoping for high resolution + hdr + refresh rate monitors suitable for a build.

 

[Lordhumungus]

Man, how do folks keep their retinas from melting out of their heads?!? I must be severely in the minority but I turn brightness down on everything (phones, TV, monitor et al) to usually around 25%.

I once got crazy and went all the way to 40% brightness on my desktop. The computer woke from sleep in the dead of night on a white background and I'm still pretty sure I can see into the future...

 

[mnewsham]

To be fair, the 10,000 nit brightness of this monitor is NOT the brightness you can achieve across the whole panel. 10,000 nit measurement is the peak brightness, likely using just a small cluster of pixels while the rest of the panel is black. If you set up a pure white image and cranked the brightness up, you wouldn't get anywhere near 10,000 nits across the entire display.

Where 10,000 nit brightness DOES come into play is specular highlights or similar high brightness but small size objects. The Moon tends to be a common example, think about a very dark scene in a movie at night and the moon comes out in a shot and the inky black sky looks blue/grey because the moon light is so bright that the brightness bleeds into the rest of the scene. With an OLED HDR set there is no more brightness bleeding, the moon is crisp and bright, and the surrounding pixels are dark inky black thanks to the OLEDs infinite contrast ratio.


Tldr; don't let the high brightness fool you, you NEED higher brightness levels in order to achieve HDR, and the better contrast ratio and peak brightness, the better off you are.

 

[Headfoot]

finally a good post instead of "OMG 10k NITS!!!!11!111" It's about contrast and the ability to makes lights lighter and blacks blacker.