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fwiw, I have been paying more attention to lighting conditions for my screen use lately, and I think that's really one of the main issues with led displays: I barely ever get the screen brightness to fit its surroundings, especially so after sunset (I like to work late so that's an issue). For a screen that's not backlit, that isn't as much of a problem, works like a book: shine a light on it and you're good (well, mostly).
Also I think the "a photon is a photon" argument is very very spurious, that's like a naive 1950s view of how perception works. That is to say, your eyes aren't just passive light receptors, they focus on specific things in different ways, depending on what you're looking at (movie, picture, book, word processing, bright, dark, static, moving, etc.)
That said, for whatever reason, I've found that setting my screen to greyscale does make a ton of difference in terms of susceptibility to distraction...
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