The TV has okay SDR peak brightness. It’s enough to fight glare if you have a few small lights around, but scenes with larger areas of bright colors, like in hockey or basketball, are dimmer due to the Automatic Brightness Limiter (ABL).
These measurements are after calibration with the following settings:
- Picture Mode: Expert (Dark Space, Night)
- OLED Pixel Brightness: 100
- Adjust Contrast: 85
- Peak Brightness: High
- Color Temperature: Warm 50
Setting Peak Brightness to ‘Off’ reduces the aggressiveness of the ABL but also lowers the peak brightness to about 260 cd/m² in most scenes. Setting the input to Game Mode or PC Mode, or setting the 4:4:4 Pass Through option to ‘On’, locks the Peak Brightness option to ‘Off’. Here are measurements with the setting disabled:
- Peak 2% Window: 268 cd/m²
- Peak 10% Window: 269 cd/m²
- Peak 25% Window: 270 cd/m²
- Peak 50% Window: 268 cd/m²
- Peak 100% Window: 160 cd/m²
- Sustained 2% Window: 259 cd/m²
- Sustained 10% Window: 258 cd/m²
- Sustained 25% Window: 258 cd/m²
- Sustained 50% Window: 256 cd/m²
- Sustained 100% Window: 155 cd/m²