The latest battleground in TV land is brightness, and leading the charge of the light brigade (sorry) is Sony. The Japanese brand is essentially fighting on two fronts (I’ll stop torturing this metaphor momentarily, I promise), with its new 4000-nit mastering-monitor infiltrating the movie industry and its new 4000-nit TV advancing on its way into homes.
I’ve been pondering how I feel about this since Sony first demonstrated its next-gen backlighting system to me at the end of last year, and I have to confess that I’m still not sure how I feel about it. I’ve been weighing up the arguments for and against in my head for months now, often when I should have been doing more important things such as sleeping or parenting, yet I’m still utterly torn. Perhaps explaining the arguments to you will help me figure out my own thoughts, sort of like tech therapy…
