As a result of this, we test at 100% APL in order to get an idea of perceived brightness. While there may be some need for lower APL testing, it’s important to also consider cases such as OLED aging which will lower peak brightness over time. It's also important to consider that the delta between 80% APL and 100% APL in this case is around 44 nits. This makes for about an 18% delta in brightness, which ends up being around the noticeable difference in most cases. While our testing is subject to change, in the case of brightness we currently do not see much need to dramatically alter our methodology.

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Here's where we remind you that a manufacturer's claim and a real-world nits number are often not the same. In CNET's TV reviews we measure the light output in nits of every TV for both HDR and standard material, and we've found that some TVs live up to the claim and some do not. And some have other imitations, for example the tendency of some Samsung TVs to vary their light output over time, dropping to half brightness or less after a certain period. Caveat emptor.

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As TVs get brighter and brighter, manufacturers are using their brightness, often measured in nits, as a marketing tool. Here’s what you need to know.

In order to determine what picture content to use for a measurement of maximum brightness, we must turn to a measurement known as Average Picture Level (APL). This is best explained as the percentage of the display that is lit up compared to a full white display, so a display that is completely red, green, or blue would be 33% APL.

Sony's stunningly gorgeous 10,000 nit "full-spec" HDR prototype shown at CES 2018. Even in a darkened room, the image wasn't too bright to watch, it was just impressively realistic.

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As you can see, many of the screens in Android's interface as well as web pages and third party apps have a high APL. There are exceptions, like the Calculator application and any application with a dark theme, but the overall trend is clear. Google's new interface style also means that applications are more likely to adopt interfaces with large amounts of white than in the past.

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The short version is that it's a colloquial term for a unit of brightness. That description might be enough for you. Lots of nits = lots of brightness, which helps the image look better in a bright room or with HDR TV shows and movies.

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In practice, it turns out that with Lollipop and almost all web pages, the average picture level is quite high. It’s increasingly rare to see cases where displayed content is below 50% APL. According to Motorola, 80% APL represents an average APL for light UIs and in light of this, it seems appropriate to test at similarly real-world APLs. Taking a look at some commonly used applications in Lollipop, we see that the APL is regularly at or above even Motorola's 80% figure. I opened some of the applications on my Nexus 6's homescreen to take screenshots of whatever they had open when they came up, and I've tabulated the results below.

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To break this system down further, we can look at the backlight. In the case of mobile devices, the only acceptable backlight system for thickness and power efficiency reasons is the edge-lit LED, which places a line of LEDs along an edge of the display, which is then diffused through a sheet of transparent material with strategically-placed bumps in the material to create points of light via total internal reflection. For the most part, LEDs in use today are blue LEDs with yellow phosphors in order to increase efficiency, although this means that the natural white point of such a backlight is higher than 6504k and requires filtering in order to reach a calibrated white point.

If you're still reading, I assume this is because you're looking for something a bit more in depth. I've got you covered.

While we generally avoid going into deep detail when it comes to our display testing, in light of statements that seemingly contradict our testing it becomes important to contextualize our display tests. Many people are often confused by contradicting statements regarding the peak brightness of an AMOLED display, as we will state that the Samsung Galaxy Note 4’s display reaches a maximum of 462 cd/m^2, while other sites often state that the Note 4’s display reaches a maximum of 750 cd/m^2. Another commonly cited discrepancy is that we rate the Nexus 6’s display to reach a peak brightness of 258 nits, while others have rated the Nexus 6’s display to be as bright as 400 nits.

You may have seen mention in TV and projector reviews of "foot-lamberts." This is the Imperial version of nits, so they're directly comparable: 1 nit = 0.29 foot-lamberts. So a TV that puts out 1,000 nits is putting out 291.9ftL. Generally, though, everyone (including CNET reviews) uses nits now.

Modern  TVs  can be much brighter, with the top-of-the-line HDR TVs putting out over 1,500 nits. In the next few years, we'll likely see even higher light outputs.  Sony , at  CES  2018, showed a prototype TV capable of 10,000 nits.

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AMOLED is a fundamentally different approach to the problem, which uses organic emitters deposited upon a substrate. These emitters are designed to emit red, green, or blue when voltage is applied across two electrodes. Similarly, TFTs are needed to control each pixel. As one can see, AMOLED is a simpler solution, but in practice the issues with such an implementation can be quite complex.

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In the case of the Nexus 6, we can clearly see dimishing returns after 40% APL as there is efficiency droop on AMOLED displays that are similar in nature to LED backlights. While now it’s easy to understand why it is that AMOLED can vary in maximum brightness, the question is which brightness is “correct”. While an AMOLED display can technically have a maximum brightness of 750 nits, it’s unlikely that people will look at images effectively equivalent to 1% of the display lit up with white.

So, does that mean two 2,000 lumen projectors will appear equally bright on the same size screen? Nope. That'd be too easy. There's no specific method to measure lumens, so manufacturers can fudge these numbers quite a bit. It's doubtful a 2,000 lumen projector will be dimmer than a 1,000 lumen projector, but take the numbers, any manufacturer-supplied specs really, with a grain of salt. An exception to that is ANSI lumens, which specifies the method of how to measure the light. Those numbers should be largely comparable across projectors.

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That amount of light, spread over a square meter, is one nit. Or to put it another way, imagine a box, 16-inches (40.8cm) on each side, with a candle in the middle. The total amount of light hitting the interior surface of that box is 1 nit.

But let's talk about the stuff that interests us here. A movie theater screen, in your average movie theater, can probably get as bright as about 50 nits. If your TV is a few years old, pre-HDR, it can probably reach between 100 and 400 nits. Plasmas (now defunct) would be on the low side of that, while high-end LCDs on the other side.

Brightness Nits vs Lumens

This isn't to say a 2,000 nit TV is going to always look better than a 1,500 nit TV, but it can be a factor. Brightness (nits) is only one half of the all-important contrast ratio equation; the other is black level. Meanwhile new technologies like quantum dots are pushing overall performance, including brightness, to levels we couldn't have imagined 10 years ago.

Or to put it simply, a projector is measured in lumens, the image it projects on a screen is measured in nits, just like a TV. Since projector manufacturers don't know what size or gain screen you're going to use, it's a lot easier to say "1,000 lumens" than "300 nits (on a 100-inch, 1.3 gain screen in a dark room with the projector sitting at screen height, unzoomed, in the Bright picture mode...)."

While the backlight is relatively simple, the actual color filtering is a bit more complicated, although we will avoid extensive depth in this case. In the case of IPS, the structure is generally quite simple in nature, with two electrodes in plane with each other, which is used to generate an electric field that rotates the orientation of the liquid crystals in plane with the display to dynamically alter the polarization of the light that can pass through the liquid crystal array. With a set of fixed polarizers before and after the liquid crystal array, by using the controlling TFTs to alter the voltage applied on the electrodes one can adjust individual color output on a per-pixel basis.

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TV manufacturers have always striven to create bright televisions. The brightest TV is the one that sold, or so the old adage went. Now, in the HDR era, this brightness has another purpose: picture quality. One of the main aspects to HDR performance is creating realistic highlights. The brighter these small areas of the screen are, the better. Imagine, for example, a glint off an aircraft's metallic skin. In real life, this with be significantly brighter than the rest of the scene. On a great HDR TV, it is as well.

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As one might already be able to guess, with AMOLED power consumption is highly dependent upon the content displayed. With a pure white image, every pixel must be lit, while with a pure black image every pixel is off. As the display typically has a maximum power use set for a mobile device, this opens up the capability for AMOLED displays to allocate more power per pixel (i.e. higher maximum luminance) when not displaying a full-white image. This is in contrast with the edge-lit LCDs used in mobile displays, which have relatively limited local-dimming capabilities. As a result, the maximum brightness of an LCD is relatively fixed, regardless of the displayed content.

One might immediately assume that one measurement is right, and the other is false. In truth, both measurements are achievable, as we’ll soon see. Before we get into any discussion of testing methodology though, we must first understand how AMOLED and LCD displays work. Fundamentally, LCD and OLED displays are almost completely different from one another, but face similar issues and limitations. LCD is the older of the two technologies, and is fundamentally quite simple, although not quite as simple as OLED. In short, we can view an LCD display as made of a backlight, and a color filtering array which has liquid crystals that control the passage of light, along with polarizers to make sure that the filtering system works correctly.

Whatis nits in mobile display

A "nit" is another way to describe a brightness of 1 candela per square meter (cd/m2). An average candle produces roughly 1 candela. Now you know where the name comes from. Happy birthday.

Or to flip it around, a 500 nit phone and a 500 nit TV are going to appear equally bright to your eye. But a 2,000 lumen projector on a 50-inch screen is going to look WAY brighter than a 2,000 lumen projector on a 150-inch screen.

Another measure of light is called lumens, and this… gets complicated. For what CNET deals with, lumens typically only apply to projectors. It tells you how much light energy something is throwing out, but not exactly how "bright" it will appear. That's because you're not looking directly at a projector. If a projector has "2,000 lumens" for example, it's going to appear differently bright whether you use a 50-inch screen or a 150-inch screen.

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