I've heard a good point that our eyes have, in fact, a boring 1:100 range of brightness. Eyes can rapidly adjust, but the real game changer is our ability to create an image in our video memory, which has an unlimited brightness range. Eyes give us maybe a 2d uint8 framebuffer, but our mind creates and updates a float32 3d buffer. This is why this experience cannot be reproduced on a screen.

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hnuser123456 a day ago | parent [-]

If our eyes can only see 100:1, why is OLED taking off? LCD has been claiming 1000:1 for decades

	▲	perching_aix a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Because of fast & per-pixel level light control. Though this is true even if we completely ignore whether human eyes actually manifest a 100:1 auto-adapting dynamic range window.
	▲	__alexs a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		In my case it's because the motion clarity of OLED is excellent.