

It isn’t, necessarily - but the reason we do like to talk about peak brightness is that when watching HDR content, we want those HDR highlights to really gleam and sparkle, and having high brightness capabilities aids with that. Reviewers like me often talk about peak brightness as if it is the Holy Grail of TV performance benchmarks. Each bulb is putting out the same amount of light, but the more bulbs you have, the more lit up the room gets? That notion is going to be relevant here because this is one of the brightest TVs you can buy right now. It’s the same as if you had eight 60-watt lightbulbs, then stepped up to 12 bulbs, then to 18, and so on.

The biggest difference as you move up in screen size will be seen in how much this TV lights up your room, because the more screen area you have pumping out light, the more light is going to be coming at you. Otherwise, for the most part, you can expect the other QM8 sizes - the 65-, 75-, and even the massive 98-inch versions - to perform similarly.
