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For the unintiated: - TB3 is Thunderbolt 3 - DCI-P3 is an RGB colorspace - HDR600 refers to luminosity (nits) and other VESA specifications TBH I'm not sure

For the unintiated: - TB3 is Thunderbolt 3 - DCI-P3 is an RGB colorspace - HDR600 refers to luminosity (nits) and other VESA specifications TBH I'm not sure what nits are or why to get excited about them. I was kind of hoping all the initialism bingo would boil down to a high refresh rate 4k IPS display panel! [edit] removed "600 nits" because it was incorrect

dweekly 9y ago
Nits = how bright can bright get? If you want your sunny shots to be searingly so but your dark shots to still be clear the ideal is to have high dynamic range: really bright brights and really subtly dark blacks. If you don't have the former, you compress the likely dynamic range you can display under daylight conditions. So a high nit display (with HDR) can "wow" both with total brightness capability as well as broad dynamic range.
IkmoIkmo 9y ago
Nits are a level of brightness for a given level of surface area. If you like a bright monitor you can use the variable as a benchmark in the same way you gauge resolution in pixels per inch. On a sunny day (compare it to using a smartphone outside) brightness can be important. I'm not super familiar with 'low' or 'high' brightness, but as far as I know 600 is very good. The iPhone 7 for example has about 700 nits max, for outdoor use. So it seems as if this is close to an outdoor-level monitor, which should perform well under any indoor condition, especially with some light shades if necessary.
wtallis 9y ago
> HDR600 refers to luminosity; 600 "nits" No. The 600 nits (cd/m^2) brightness is just one of several requirements in the VESA DisplayHDR-600 specification: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12144/vesa-announces-displayhdr-spec-and-tiers https://www.anandtech.com/show/12144/vesa-announces-displayh...
- dogma1138 9y ago
  HDR600 doesn’t require 600nits actually it requires 320, the flash brightness is a useless metric the problem with displays that can’t provide sufficient brightness is continuous clipping of highlights not that they can’t momentarily blind you. Pretty much anything other than OLED or Sony’s full array dimming won’t have proper HDR functionality especially after calibration which tends to reduce the peak and average brightness of the display considerably. VESA has a chance to step in and do something proper they chose the have the shittiest requirements possible. The only one currently in the PC monitor scene which is serious about HDR is NVIDIAz Gsync HDR requires a 1000 nits brightness and full array dimming with 380 zones or more for LCD panels.

dweekly 9y ago

Nits = how bright can bright get? If you want your sunny shots to be searingly so but your dark shots to still be clear the ideal is to have high dynamic range: really bright brights and really subtly dark blacks. If you don't have the former, you compress the likely dynamic range you can display under daylight conditions. So a high nit display (with HDR) can "wow" both with total brightness capability as well as broad dynamic range.

IkmoIkmo 9y ago

Nits are a level of brightness for a given level of surface area. If you like a bright monitor you can use the variable as a benchmark in the same way you gauge resolution in pixels per inch. On a sunny day (compare it to using a smartphone outside) brightness can be important. I'm not super familiar with 'low' or 'high' brightness, but as far as I know 600 is very good. The iPhone 7 for example has about 700 nits max, for outdoor use. So it seems as if this is close to an outdoor-level monitor, which should perform well under any indoor condition, especially with some light shades if necessary.

wtallis 9y ago

> HDR600 refers to luminosity; 600 "nits" No. The 600 nits (cd/m^2) brightness is just one of several requirements in the VESA DisplayHDR-600 specification: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12144/vesa-announces-displayhdr-spec-and-tiers https://www.anandtech.com/show/12144/vesa-announces-displayh...

dogma1138 9y ago
HDR600 doesn’t require 600nits actually it requires 320, the flash brightness is a useless metric the problem with displays that can’t provide sufficient brightness is continuous clipping of highlights not that they can’t momentarily blind you. Pretty much anything other than OLED or Sony’s full array dimming won’t have proper HDR functionality especially after calibration which tends to reduce the peak and average brightness of the display considerably. VESA has a chance to step in and do something proper they chose the have the shittiest requirements possible. The only one currently in the PC monitor scene which is serious about HDR is NVIDIAz Gsync HDR requires a 1000 nits brightness and full array dimming with 380 zones or more for LCD panels.