Could TCL's next flagship Mini LED TV be too bright?

[What Hi-Fi?]

TCL has announced its latest 4K Mini LED flagship TV which will feature a claimed peak brightness of 6500 nits and over 14,000 dimming zones.

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[Friesiansam]

At 5000 Nits, there is no could be about it.

 

[Wales1]

All this fuss about Nits is Nuts

 

[Arron]

"Could TCL's next flagship Mini LED TV be too bright?" -- no. The whole point of high brightness is to reproduce bright environments. If a scene is set on a beautiful Caribbean beach, the director wants to get you as close as possible to feeling the sun beating down... for the glints of the sun on the waves to make you feel like you're there.

 

[Wales1]

"Could TCL's next flagship Mini LED TV be too bright?" -- no. The whole point of high brightness is to reproduce bright environments. If a scene is set on a beautiful Caribbean beach, the director wants to get you as close as possible to feeling the sun beating down... for the glints of the sun on the waves to make you feel like you're there.

On a rainy day in Wales I don't care how bright that Caribbean beach is I definitely won't feel I'm there lol.

 

[Ethics Gradient]

If a scene is set on a beautiful Caribbean beach, the director wants to get you as close as possible to feeling the sun beating down... for the glints of the sun on the waves to make you feel like you're there.

I'm a big fan of HDR and I know what you mean, but I wonder whether the eye sees it in the same way. A bright sky is coming at you from all directions, whereas the TV is from a small area (even when it's a good-sized screen), usually surrounded by considerably darker areas. Does the iris react in exactly the same way?

 

[Friesiansam]

"Could TCL's next flagship Mini LED TV be too bright?" -- no. The whole point of high brightness is to reproduce bright environments. If a scene is set on a beautiful Caribbean beach, the director wants to get you as close as possible to feeling the sun beating down... for the glints of the sun on the waves to make you feel like you're there.

I don’t care what the director wants, I watch at a comfortable brightness for me and, I don’t want to have to wear sunglasses whilst watching the TV.

 

[Arron]

On a rainy day in Wales I don't care how bright that Caribbean beach is I definitely won't feel I'm there lol.

On a rainy day anywhere in 🇬🇧 it's a struggle but maybe with a heat lamp too?

I'm a big fan of HDR and I know what you mean, but I wonder whether the eye sees it in the same way. A bright sky is coming at you from all directions, whereas the TV is from a small area (even when it's a good-sized screen), usually surrounded by considerably darker areas. Does the iris react in exactly the same way?

The iris response probably isn't the same but it would be close enough to fool our monkey brains 😎

I don’t care what the director wants, I watch at a comfortable brightness for me and, I don’t want to have to wear sunglasses whilst watching the TV.

Perhaps you'd be more comfortable going back to a 12" B&W TV? 😝

 

[Friesiansam]

Perhaps you'd be more comfortable going back to a 12" B&W TV? 😝

No! I do however, remember having a small B&W TV, I was 5 when the BBC started a colour service…

 

[Arron]

No! I do however, remember having a small B&W TV, I was 5 when the BBC started a colour service…

Only a little younger. We had a 12" B&W as our only TV until the late 70s when we could finally afford a 14" colour set

On the high nits front, don't worry. Directors aren't trying to leave you blinking away after-images — well, most aren't — what they want is for you to have lots of "wow" moments... to get you emotionally engaged with the visuals

That's part of their job

 

[Wales1]

Everybody was always the first one in the street to have a colour TV 😂

 

[Arron]

Everybody was always the first one in the street to have a colour TV 😂

We got our first colour TV second hand from a neighbour. Trust us to be different