AFIK US signed an agreement about using the international units system
with the beginning of 2007 so, the units for brightness is not the
nit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candela_per_square_metre

However, let's don't talk about religion&politics. :)
>From my experience (and I've saw many LCDs, most of them being
japanese products) there isn't any being able to display satisfactory
in full sun. Most of them will look like have been shutted down or the
backligt HV supply is dying.

The solution  is using a large view angle LCD and mask as much from
the sunlight with a sort of high bezels.

On 3/31/07, Dave King <KingDWS@shaw.ca> wrote:
> Just was reading the thread about case mods and looked up the source
> of the LCD screen the guy used. I noticed the prices of lcd's have
> dropped to the point where they are reasonable or about 1/10 of what
> they were when I first started working on my project. The high brightness
> or high nit lcd panels are about 3x the cost of the standard tft panels.
> My project requires visibility in sunlight.
>
> So here is the question...
>
> Would it be possible or has anyone taken a standard tft lcd panel and
> added high brightness side lighting (cft or led) and managed to make
> it work in bright sunlight? Or am I missing something on the differences
> of a standard lcd verses a high nit lcd?
>
> Dave
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