Specsavers SuperDrive/SuperDigital lenses

A branch of opticians franchised by a company that really should be called Cobblers tried to sell me a £400 pair of Varifocals that even with the pupillary distance correct were indistinguishable from my existing ones, but that offered clear vision in one eye at a time due to a wildly inaccurate pupillary distance. I told them to keep them and took my £400 back.

Per my earlier post - if your car has UV-protective glass (most do now) then the lenses won't tint in the car as no UV is hitting them. I have a pair of prescription sunglasses in the car in case I need them.

What kind of lenses did you get that had a larger intermediate area?

I just picked up my new glasses, first varifocals because I was hacked off always 'looking for my glasses' because I'd be wearing the distance ones when I wanted to read something or vice versa.
I went for superdigital because they were supposed to have the shortest time of adaption and best for phone/computer use.

A few days in and I realise I can't use a computer because the width of vision at a normal sitting distance is an patch of screen a palm's width in the screen wherever I'm looking dead at, I can't be reading a monitor like watching a game of tennis!!
for comparison, my phone screen is only barely ok to read with them - the edges of the screen are blurry if I look at the dead centre of a piece of text.
ipad sized object in portrait or landscape and it's already annoying. I don't want to read a book with my neck.

So, so far, all I can use these glasses for to see clearly is; to look down the road, look at a bullseye of a dartboard, or read my watch.
I'm not convinced I will adapt to it in a couple of weeks.

They made me another pair of SuperDigital lenses and fitted them to my frames, but they increased the size of the the intermediate area. They even gave me my old lenses back. The replacement lenses are better, however I work at a PC all day so still prefer my computer glasses for that. I could use my SuperDigitals but when looking at a screen all day then my computer glasses are better,

I didn't have any problem with them when looking at my phone, I suggest you take them back and discuss the problem, sounds like you too need the intermediate area increasing.

I keep mine by the sofa where I sit and use them for laptop, and watching TV. I had got fed up with switching from reading glasses to distance glasses.

However they are also perfect for driving so I had my free 2nd pair made but added reactive tints to them, these are kept in my car. Now I can clearly see the road ahead, and the dashboard and radio screen. I take them into supermarkets with me so I can read labels etc. They are perfect all rounders for me, but dedicated glasses will always be better for their intended purpose but its great to now have just one pair that does most things really well.

I think all glasses are a compromise, I find varifocals are good 'Jack of all trades' lenses and I like them, though sometimes they are a bit weird when walking up/down stairs as I naturally look down and out of the reading part of the lense, so have to adjust.

The problem is my distance vision is better than 20/20 but I have an astigmatism correction in my glasses. So for distance that was almost take it or leave it for a few years, but a great improvement in comfort/fatigue. Then came along the age-related reading glasses and I swapped back and forth, which is pretty tiresome and I've built some bad habits, like looking over the top of my readers, forgetting to wear my distance ones at all and this was causing headaches again. So I wanted to try varifocals and these are just not doing it for me. I think there are a couple of things I crticise from the dispensing side of the opticians and I also think the quality of the so called 'superdigital', as delivered to me is sub-par.
I'll be asking them to explain to me again, what the superdigital product is good for, and what they think I should see as a 'clear-patch' in computer and phone/book use. because I think a 4" round clear bit with out of focus around it, is a waste of time & money

System has just changed, no need to go to GP, from May 24, optometrists can refer you to secondary care directly rather than via the GP, who often simply referred you back initially to one of a few selected opticians in your area if your originally chosen one wasn't listed as approved.

It's called the Electronic Eyecare Referral System. It gives single point of access to secondary care with patient choice, less chance of communication problems, less chance of delays and referral errors, ability to attach documents, eye scans and so on. Clearly it should also improve tracking referral status and outcomes. It does depend on your optometrist being registered and approved.

Info given simply to inform and thus you're forearmed for the discussion depending on how it develops.