Why apple only has glossy displays
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i have never understood the statement that the glossy screens can't produce true colour. coming from an artistic background i know that all painters refused to use matted glass in front of their works simply because it reduces the contrast and colour of their works.
having recently gotten a glossy MBP i am never going back to matte. the contrast is amazing, the blacks are blacker and the reflection never gets in the way when the screen is at full brightness.
however since people keep making an issue of this i chose to see what professionals are saying & it seems that i'm right:
"Matte screens diffuse the lights going into AND out of the monitor. You will see this when you point a bright flourescent light at your matte screen and you can see not glare but a sort of blurred ‘smudge’ of light on the monitor. This is good for the majority of situations (such as outside and under bright direct lights). But it is also bad in the sense that the lights and colors coming from behind the matte coating are being diffused the same way.
The way the glossy screen makes things better is that instead of ‘anti-glare’ it is using ‘anti-reflective’ principals. This is meaning that instead of light being diffused into the coating it mostly just bounces off. This gives you the glare you see on the glossy screens, some worse than others. The upside to this is that the light from inside the lcd are not being affected AT ALL, so you’re contrast ratio is up and your colors look more vibrant.
Contrary to what someone else said above this type of lcd screen IS recommended for design work since typically a person doing design will being in a less brightly lit setting and so will recieve a much nicer contrast ratio and much more vibrant colors (infact MORE true to the apple colors, since the colors aren’t being ‘mangled’ by the diffusion on the way past the coating)."
more in depth information can be found here:
http://www.screentekinc.com/pixe…
i hope this somewhat settles this argument. i'm not sure that most of the people complaining about glossy screens have ever actually used them. it struck me immediately as to the benefit the moment i owned one & spent some time with it.
also please note that the default colour settings on a glossy mac are very different from the defaults on a matte mac. just set your colour profile as you need it & you'll find the glossy's added contrast, richness of colour and depth win over in the end.
- He could just said, we looked at the Sony laptops and like the glossy screen, so use that idea.********
- "however since people keep making an issue of this i chose to see what professionals are saying & it seems that i'm right:" HAHAHAHAMeeklo
- that statement sounds like something Bill O'Reilly would say.Meeklo
- so your colors look vibrant, but no one esles does!studderine
- He could just said, we looked at the Sony laptops and like the glossy screen, so use that idea.