{"id":1422,"date":"2017-12-03T21:34:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T04:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalview.com\/blog\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2019-12-12T00:32:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T07:32:16","slug":"brightness-backlight-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalview.website\/blog\/brightness-backlight-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightness Confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few oddities in the LCD market such as TV companies referring to LED TV&#8217;s when they are really LCD based with LED backlights &#8211; this has now resulted in LED display companies having to refer to their displays as &#8220;direct view LED&#8221;, ie no LCD in front.<\/p>\n<p>Another odd one is brightness &#8211; the brightness control on a TV might adjust the black level or the backlight.<\/p>\n<p>Digital View controllers and OSD commands have followed the TV industry misnomer so you will find our commands have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brightness: This adjusts the black-level;<\/li>\n<li>Backlight: This will adjust the LCD panels LED backlight brightness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not wanting to confuse things but on our OSD PCBAs we note &#8216;brightness&#8217; to refer to the real, ie backlight, brightness.<\/p>\n<p>Update Dec 2019: We are moving to Brightness being backlight brightness and to call Black Level.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1423\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalview.com\/blog\/brightness-backlight-confusion\/diode-strip-led-lights-tape\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1423\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1423\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.digitalview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/brightness-blog-500x310.jpeg?resize=500%2C310\" alt=\"brightness-blog\" width=\"500\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.digitalview.website\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/brightness-blog.jpeg?resize=500%2C310&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.digitalview.website\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/brightness-blog.jpeg?resize=768%2C475&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.digitalview.website\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/brightness-blog.jpeg?resize=1024%2C634&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.digitalview.website\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/brightness-blog.jpeg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diode strip. 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