So, here are a couple of shots. This is the same dark road on different days, so ambient light is a little different. Also not same spot on the road, but close enough. Also, on the LED pic , my fog lights were on with the headlights. I changed the settings in Alpha to make fog lights LED in anticipation of my new bulbs, and my morimoto LED fogs quit working, so the HID picture does not have the fog lights on. In the picture, the LED looks brighter, but in person and when driving, the HID are far brighter. That gap in light on the HID pic in the lower left corner is because no fog lights. You can see the outline of the same gap in the LED pic, but the fog lights kind of fill it in, so dont take the foreground the immediate side coverage into account, because it is not a fair comparison.
There's also a pic leaving my neighborhood. If I had to guess, I would say the brick wall is 50-60' away. There is a 3 lane road (1 coming, 1 going, and a turn lane), and about 10 feet of grass on each side of the road between me and the wall. You can see the slope of the passenger side cutoff, but there just is no hotspot. That is how the LEDs looked as well. They were bright, they just didnt really put out a hotspot, and to the naked eye kind of faded off in the distance. The HID are definitely brighter and more intense. If I could just fix the hotspot on the passenger side, and get my fog lights working again, I would probably leave them alone. I am planning to pull the Morimoto fogs and install the VLED bulbs and OEM housings today (got 5000k VLED bulbs for the fogs to match color temp of the head lights). If they still dont work, I'll switch the setting back to no for LED fog light in Alpha and see if that fixes it.
For reference, I darkened the exposure on the photos when taking them. I took pics without darkening them first, and for both sets, it literally washes out the road so you just cant really tell anything.
HID:
LED:
HID on wall:
For giggles, here are the full brightness photos.
HID:
LED: