Terms You Should Know About Displays And Monitors! Hertz And Nits Explained!
If you are looking into buying a new monitor or display you should definitely read this article carefully and also take a quick peep at some our other articles from the Topics and Posts section above under Widely Covered Topics or here. We suggest you to read all of those articles to make the best purchase decision. If you are going to buy a display, while browsing through the options on Amazon or something you must have noticed things like Hertz or Nits in the spec sheet or sometimes even on the name. Even if you are not going to buy a new display you can still learn about Hertz and Nits on your current device by reading this articles.
If you are thinking Hertz is that frequency related thing that I learned in school, well, you are absolutely right. Hertz is the unit used to indicate the Refresh rate of a display generally a monitor. Heinrich Hertz, The German Physicist made a lot of important contributions to the study of electromagnetisms. Hertz replaced the term CPS or Cycles per second largely in the 1970s. The hertz (Hz) is the consequent unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second. It is named for Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, the first person to provide conclusive proof of the existence of electromagnetic waves. Hertz are commonly conveyed in multiples: kilohertz (103 Hz, kHz), megahertz (106 Hz, MHz), gigahertz (109 Hz, GHz), and terahertz (1012 Hz, THz).
LCD displays which are based on IPS panel technologies are commonly found with refresh rates 60Hz. The Highest-end LCD display today has a refresh rate of 600Hz. The difference between 30Hz or 30FPS (Frames Per Second) or 60Hz or 60FPS might not be very visible to your eyes at first but it is pretty noticeable to a professional or a person who switches between them often. But, the difference between a 60Hz display and a 120Hz one is noticeable. If you have not looked at a 120Hz display, you should we highly recommend it. And 240Hz display is the best for consumers and we have not looked at one of those displays yet, but it seems like they are amazing.
Moving on with Nits. Nits is a unit of visible-light intensity, commonly used to specify the brightness of a cathode ray tube or liquid crystal display. Nits is the amount of light or the measurement of amount of light thrown out by a display to your eyeballs from a certain area of the display. An average display has an output of 100 Nits to anywhere between 250 Nits. It is to be noted that a display with HDR (High Dynamic Range) capabilities many have outputs from up to 400 Nits to 2,000 Nits. There is a difference between bright monitor and a glowing monitor. A Bright monitor makes all of the colours on the screen brighter whereas a Glowing monitor makes the display whiter. So you need to keep that in mind when buying a monitor based on the number of Nits. When you turn up or down the brightness of your display, you are varying the amount of Nits.
We hope that helps you pick a better display and not get fooled by just looking at the Nits count, Because sometimes Bigger or more is not better. There are some other terms related to displays and other monitor technologies so return here in the next few days. And to know more about display we have already published a lot of articles on it which you can read here. And to read more about Technology and Tech news, come here more often at Rohan Wayangankar’s Tech Blog and Know about the tech that has value for you.
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If you are thinking Hertz is that frequency related thing that I learned in school, well, you are absolutely right. Hertz is the unit used to indicate the Refresh rate of a display generally a monitor. Heinrich Hertz, The German Physicist made a lot of important contributions to the study of electromagnetisms. Hertz replaced the term CPS or Cycles per second largely in the 1970s. The hertz (Hz) is the consequent unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second. It is named for Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, the first person to provide conclusive proof of the existence of electromagnetic waves. Hertz are commonly conveyed in multiples: kilohertz (103 Hz, kHz), megahertz (106 Hz, MHz), gigahertz (109 Hz, GHz), and terahertz (1012 Hz, THz).
LCD displays which are based on IPS panel technologies are commonly found with refresh rates 60Hz. The Highest-end LCD display today has a refresh rate of 600Hz. The difference between 30Hz or 30FPS (Frames Per Second) or 60Hz or 60FPS might not be very visible to your eyes at first but it is pretty noticeable to a professional or a person who switches between them often. But, the difference between a 60Hz display and a 120Hz one is noticeable. If you have not looked at a 120Hz display, you should we highly recommend it. And 240Hz display is the best for consumers and we have not looked at one of those displays yet, but it seems like they are amazing.
We hope that helps you pick a better display and not get fooled by just looking at the Nits count, Because sometimes Bigger or more is not better. There are some other terms related to displays and other monitor technologies so return here in the next few days. And to know more about display we have already published a lot of articles on it which you can read here. And to read more about Technology and Tech news, come here more often at Rohan Wayangankar’s Tech Blog and Know about the tech that has value for you.
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