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by adamwathan 1552 days ago
This isn't true — the native 1600 nits mode only uses 1600 nits for HDR content. Regular content/OS UI/etc is still limited to much less brightness.

Check out this HDR YouTube video at this timestamp to see how bright white actually is at 1600 nits:

https://youtu.be/NlAsAuBtmps?t=180

Here's a photo of my XDR display with a pure white rectangle in Figma next to white content in an HDR video, with the display set to the 1600 nits mode:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rmvu6r6vugaxg95/xdr-brightness-com...

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Huh, I was not aware of that. I will take a closer look.