I made the World’s BRIGHTEST Gaming Monitor!

Sure, TVs and Monitors have gotten brighter, but NOT BRIGHT ENOUGH! That’s why we embarked on a journey to see how many NITs we can hit, how many lumens we can summon, and use HIGH POWER LEDS to make a display so painfully bright, we are putting ourselves at risk every time we use it. We were too concerned if we COULD make the brightest Monitor in History, that we forgot to ask if we SHOULD.

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:56 What is an LCD panel?
3:06 A Brief Explanation of Backlighting
4:50 Which LEDs are we using?
6:00 How do we Power them?
6:45 How do we cool them?
9:08 Testing out the Backlight
13:43 Turning it ON and testing it!
21:02 How bright is the Monitor?

[Talos]

Forget OLED burn in. I want the image burnt straight into my eyes.

[ADietCola]

Samsung engineers: "We can't make a monitor like that sir"
"Samsung Corporate Leadership: "Linus Built it in a CAVE, with spare parts!!!"

[semihylmaz]

this is like the best LMG video in a long long long while. Not because they are bad but because this is golden

[SollowP]

LTT Lab: "We want to do this again but even dumber."
Linus: "Why would you want to do that?"
LTT Lab: *shows Linus their model*
Linus: "I agree. Make this 10 times dumber and I increase your budget."

[hsm]

The unbridled enthusiasm was so so good to see. The joy at being wrong. The delight of something new. The instinctive desire to teach. This is why we try things we don't always expect to work. I love it. Great job to the whole team

[harbl]

Next episode: "We lase gameplay footage directly into Elijah's eyeballs."
"Is- is this safe?"
"Sure, don't worry Elijah. We'll all be safe behind this polarized armour glass. Now watch the birdie."

[ChadCarney-hudu]

19:29 shoutout out cameraman refelxes for changing internal ND filters right before the flashbang

[SlevinKalevera]

This is the content we subscribe for. After almost two decades of following Linus, I'm so glad to see him see his "mad scientist" era come to fruition.

This is what you do with "fuck you money"

[Adam_]

I always love whenever Linus clearly hasn't read the final script until they're shooting, so that his "wait, what??" reactions are caught on camera.

[npknzz]

Me playing CS2 at 2AM and getting flashed

[mickeyhage]

You should put dual LCD panels to get blacker blacks like what DiY Perks did.

[cogspace]

6:54 Note: The 1500 W limit is not a safety limit in terms of heat output. It's just the sustained draw limit for a standard 120V NA outlet. You can get much higher-output resistive heaters that run on 240V, typically used for heating garages and warehouses and the like.

[panagiotispappas]

OLED burn in ❌
Burning the image straight to my retinas ✅

[TheSaintOMS]

Shoutout to the sound guys/gals/editing team for getting SO much better with the clear audio over obnoxiously loud fans. Well done.

[jackpaxton]

For reference, the Sun outputs around 100, 000-130, 000 Lumens per square meter on the Earth (on a spot that is receiving direct sunlight). Also, the Sun outputs (at the source) 35.73 octillion Lumens! That is 35, 730, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 Lumens! Let's just be thankful most of it doesn't reach the Earth.

[SAMMIT]

Surprised Nick Light didn’t make an appearance in this episode 🤣

[khulhucthulhu]

The contrast is horrible, but the fact that the camera has trouble capturing its brightness is wild

[daltimond]

I forget the name of the channel, DIY Perks I believe, used two LCD panels stacked together for a project. That might help with this for contrast and of course it would then be less bright. I just wonder if that would make the picture better. Not enough to do it but I couldn't stop thinking about that. This was a great idea.

[BeowulfWLOG]

12:02 Note: Unless the display industry is abusing the units, lumens and nits are not directly comparable like this. Lumens are a unit of luminous flux (effectively: total power emitted) while nits are a unit of luminance (effectively: power entering your eye, at a fixed distance, per unit area of display). If you put two of these side by side it would double the number of lumens but the number of nits would not change, since you have also doubled the display area.

[LtSkEt]

This has been one of the best LTT videos in a while. The excitement of everyone reminded me of me being with my friends getting excited about new tech. Especially when we were kids. 😂