Anti-glare screens - are they effective?
Discussion
O/H works from home using an employer provided touch screen laptop and a 24" monitor. She has epilepsy so they've offered to supply anti-glare screens for each however I've read that there are drawbacks.
What is the collective view please and which type of screen (if any) is better? I should add that her eye sight is terrible, she wears contact lenses and glasses when working.
What is the collective view please and which type of screen (if any) is better? I should add that her eye sight is terrible, she wears contact lenses and glasses when working.
I have a magnetic anti-glare screen on my MacBook Air.
It's very good. Makes the machine more usable outdoors as any glare is diffused across a larger area of the screen.
Downsides are that: it radically reduces the viewing angles (some would say this is a benefit - stops the person next to you on the train reading your screen, for example); it does impose a very fine pattern onto the screen (i.e. the grid through which you view the screen is visible, but more as a texture than anything); and it does require the screen brightness to be turned up a bit more because it blocks some light.
I also have a film-type anti-glare screen protector on my iPad - but that was more about creating a texture more akin to paper and to protect the screen when using the stylus.
It's very good. Makes the machine more usable outdoors as any glare is diffused across a larger area of the screen.
Downsides are that: it radically reduces the viewing angles (some would say this is a benefit - stops the person next to you on the train reading your screen, for example); it does impose a very fine pattern onto the screen (i.e. the grid through which you view the screen is visible, but more as a texture than anything); and it does require the screen brightness to be turned up a bit more because it blocks some light.
I also have a film-type anti-glare screen protector on my iPad - but that was more about creating a texture more akin to paper and to protect the screen when using the stylus.
the-photographer said:
What is the 24" monitor? The majority will have a matt anti-glare screen already fitted.
Not if it's OLED. Most of them will be hideously glossy to look lovely. IPS is almost always matte already. For the laptop, third party anti glare stuff will usually be a film of matt plastic with a grain on it. I perhaps wouldn't mind that on a cheap tablet, but if you want to retain the fidelity then something better is needed. You lose a lot of detail.
I bought a Samsung S9 tablet that was so reflective it was totally unusable most of the time. The only proper anti glare thing that retained its quality that I could find was Samsung's own anti glare film which is still glossy but cut down the reflections by about 80%. There are no drawbacks with that.
There are probably better solutions that mount on the case. They likely chuck it in with a privacy screen so the main issue will be that it's dimmer overall and touch may not work.
But each screen is different. I have an Asus that's glossy but handles reflections very well. I've seen others that were intolerable.
Edited by bloomen on Tuesday 7th April 16:41
bloomen said:
the-photographer said:
What is the 24" monitor? The majority will have a matt anti-glare screen already fitted.
Not if it's OLED. Most of them will be hideously glossy to look lovely. IPS is almost always matte already. For the laptop, third party anti glare stuff will usually be a film of matt plastic with a grain on it. I perhaps wouldn't mind that on a cheap tablet, but if you want to retain the fidelity then something better is needed. You lose a lot of detail.
I bought a Samsung S9 tablet that was so reflective it was totally unusable most of the time. The only proper anti glare thing that retained its quality that I could find was Samsung's own anti glare film which is still glossy but cut down the reflections by about 80%. There are no drawbacks with that.
There are probably better solutions that mount on the case. They likely chuck it in with a privacy screen so the main issue will be that it's dimmer overall and touch may not work.
But each screen is different. I have an Asus that's glossy but handles reflections very well. I've seen others that were intolerable.
Edited by bloomen on Tuesday 7th April 16:41
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