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Investing in good blinds can help with this. If you picture strings and plastic or wooden panels that can get wrecked by kids or pets (or sometimes wreck the kids or pets), blind technology has come a long way since then.
I got some dual layer ones where one layer is zebra stripe transparent/translucent and the other layer is blackout. Balanced such that I just need to lift or lower it and it stays put where I let it go. Helps with the heat, too.
It looks like Brendan Frasier got beaten with The Ugly Stick
Thats how normal people look… Go outside and see.
Matte screen gang does not relate.
Matte screen representttt
Nor does 2000nits screen gang
My head is super itchy though…
To me that’s a terrible workaround. You have to make the screen painfully bright to drown out visible reflections. The screen brightness literally has to be brighter than the brightest light source that’s creating reflections
Not really. It has to be enough brighter than the reflection that it’s not visually disturbing. And that criterion depends on what’s displayed: a high contrast image is much more robust than a bright single colour which is much more robust than a dark single colour.
Screens nowadays have anti-reflective coatings to make the brightness of a reflection far, far less than the actual light source if you looked directly at it.
Screens nowadays have anti-reflective coatings to make the brightness of a reflection far, far less than the actual light source if you looked directly at it.
So… You say you need a matte screen for the increased brightness to work?
No, anti-reflective coatings are not matte. They work by producing destructive interference in a target band of wavelengths right at the surface of the coated material from front and rear reflections. Because the effect is wavelength specific, they tend to tint the colour of the reflection, as well, allowing you to tell when they’ve been applied.
As far as I understand it, you need less brightness for the same result thanks to modern anti-glare coatings. Or use the same brightness for a better result.
I mean, it’s not terrible, I believe a rival light source interrupts the waves from the screen so it doesnt hurt as much (is also the science behind monitor bars), but I agree – I’d probably prefer a no-image-compromise, scratch-resistant, effective antiglare coating to a simply brighter screen. Can’t say for sure though as my phone doesn’t have an *obvious coating
Paid a little extra, did not regret
I thought I remembered seeing glossy cost extra before, which was funny to me.
Less funny when you look at the cost of matte today
My company once gave me the big Apple monitor to use. All the graphic designers loved it because it had some crazy high resolution and such. After one day I told desktop support to take it away because if I wanted a mirror I would just buy one.
Black Mirror
