Comment on Extreme screen glare
Beacon@fedia.io 3 weeks agoTo me that's a non-workable answer. 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.
lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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 a coating