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if you're in the market for a TV or monitor you probably know that stores will try to sell you on how more is better bigger screens higher resolutions and increasingly more brightness indeed Apple has recently announced an absurdly expensive five thousand dollar 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 an it anyway well if you've ever tried to use a phone 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 turn 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 HD are capable displays attempt to show brighter brights and darker darks than standard displays and HDR sets can also typically display a wider color gamut 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 nits 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 and its peak brightness but for HDR content the general baseline is that you want your display to be able to hit 1000 nits at peak for true HDR now 1000 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 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 nits 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 screens 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 apples pricey new monitor claims a 1000 nits 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 and of course you might want to pass on it but I would say that there's nothing wrong with getting the highest NIT display that your eyes and your wallet can handle while making sure you're not spending just way too much just to get the highest nit 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