Vehicle rearview assembly including a high intensity display

Rearview assembly of the invention for a vehicle (10) may include a mirror element (30) and includes a light management subassembly (101b) displays. The sub-assembly may include a transflective layer disposed on the rear lens element LCD. Despite the low transmittance of the transflective layer, but the present invention is capable of generating a display strength of at least 250cd / m2 and up to 3500cd / m2 visual display image. New display includes a backlight sub-assembly (116) and a new type of optical component, the optical amplification system comprising means (119), the depolarizer (121), a reflector (115) and a reflective polarizer (103b). Display can be configured to display a mirror element edge contour corresponding to the edge of the image.