Bored For A Moment - 8/9/11

So I was bored today while watching tv and decided to see how many footcandles my tv puts out.

I have a Vizio 32" LCD TV

This is what I found:

Brightness: 500 nits


So I had to find out what a "nit" is and here is my findings:

In lighting, the nit is a unit of visible-light intensity, commonly used to specify the brightness of a cathode ray tube or liquid crystal display computer display. One nit is equivalent to one candela per square meter.

So my 32" Vizio LC TV puts out 500 footcandles.