Please not brighter...
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2026
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Brighter for less energy is the important bit. It doesn't mean that the lowest brightness has to be higher than it is now.
But marketers must have number go up! Moar Candles!
Seriously, more efficiency is always good, but does anyone actually test monitors for low brightness performance, how good is the color at 100 nits, 50 nits, 10 nits, how low can they go? It's like reviewers have totally forgotten that dark rooms exist.
I mean, bright sunlight is the worst case for contemporary displays, so you usually don't have that. And you don't want to stare in a lamp for most of the time.
I usually have to help with xrandr --brightness and --gamma, even in daylight, because the darn thing is still too bright on it's lowest setting. What's important for me is therefore contrast, not brightness.
I'm more concerned with outdoor signs and billboards at night. There's one near me that's so ridiculously bright that it's hard to drive by there at night.
Could be useful if you want to watch TV outside in the sun 😂
you jest but doing work on a monitor outside even with non reflective screen is tough.
Seriously, I already have to put my monitors on nearly the lowest brightness as it is. So tired of extreme bright lighting. Especially offices.
Yeah, my finger can only fiddle the brightness toggle so much. Any more and I’m going to be playing Operation with the slider widget.
bright as the sun you say.
begging for meaningful action regarding how bright outdoor led displays can be at night. Forbskme of them its like they bottled the sun
Sounds like it could be really useful for VR displays. The best optics for VR right now use polarizers to fold the optical path repeatedly through the same lens, but a side effect is that only a small portion of the light makes it to the users' eyes.
Could also extend the battery life of phones; the display is the main power draw for most phones, and the higher brightness make that worse.
I understand why people are reacting badly to these being described as "brighter," but it does also mean "more energy efficient for the same brightness."
I understand why people are reacting badly to these being described as "brighter," but it does also mean "more energy efficient for the same brightness."
Exactly, it's all relative. What "brighter" really means in this context is more energy converted to light, less energy wasted to heat - which is entirely a good thing.
Fuck all. Of all the problems they could fix, brighter displays is not one of them.
These LED signs light up the night sky. No stars, affects wildlife, hope you don't live across from one, all caused by these blights.
These should be banned.
Darkskies are a right.
This thread is full of people completely missing the point. How in the world is an improvement to display technology so it uses less power a bad thing?
Sounds like we should do more of this "discovery" then
How about text I can read without a lupe?