it's surprising how much light is really needed, those led strips are made to be direct replacements for the ccfl, while they may be an improvement over the ccfl, I wouldn't expect it to be a drastic improvement really.
my screen backlight is estimated at somewhere in the 30,000 nit range before the screen, that's 32 1 watt luxeon leds that can be driven to around 1,000 nits each.... I estimate after the lcd I'm consevatively in the 1,400-1,500 nit range... making this much light will normally bring extreme heat....
that's the beauty of transflective & reflective, they harness the ambient light & utilize it... a transflective screen can be rated at like 170 nits & still be viewable in the sun... the reflective screen I'm using in my new install can be at 0 nit brightness, no light at all, inverter unplugged, & it still looks insane in the sun. that being said, my super bright lcd definatley looks better than the transflectives & reflective all around, but after going thru everything I did, I think trans or reflective is *choke*, good enough I guess
