Glossy v. Regular?

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    How many of you guys with a negative opinion on glossy have actually worked on or sat down in front of a glossy screen? I hear a few of you who have macbooks, but the rest.... are you getting your opinion from what you've heard online? That's complete b.s. Like I said before, I was a skeptic too until I sat down in front of one and tried it out. The first was at an Electronics store with massive overhead lights... they were not an issue when sitting down in front of the screen. The other two glossy screens were at my last job. No more glare than normal. Sure, when trying to look over the persons shoulder who is sitting at the computer there was some glare absolutely, but when you're right in front of it it's minimal at best. This reminds me of the guys who b*tched about the iPhone not having a universal headphone plug and thought Apple only did it to sell their headphones exclusively. I'd bet 90% of those people never even looked at the iPhone before passing judgement from what they heard online. Look at the phone, it has rounded edges, how can you flush mount a headphone jack on a rounded edge?... it would fuck up the nice curve, so you sink the jack into the curve and uh oh... people think you did it to fuck everyone out of their headphones. It boggles my mind. Sorry for the rant. 2 cups of coffee before 8 am. I'm flyin.

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    • +1madirish
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      thoose glossy monitors suck. yes, i have worked on them, yes i chose against one for my own cause they are not representative of 99% of users online. :)      madirish
    • FFS!
      do not rep. 99% of users online and thus make my job not accurate.      madirish
    • haha... it's like each of your split personalities just gave me a + and -. jk about the s.p. thing. just crossed me as funny.k0na_an0k
    • so your colors aren't accurate. are they ever across all monitors and all user settings? no. color is a non-issue cause they'll never be the same.k0na_an0k
    • ...they'll never be the same colors across all monitors. brightness, contrast, quality... you can't control that.k0na_an0k
    • hell, take the same monitors and plug one into a mac and the other a pc. the pc will be darker.k0na_an0k
    • absolutely. but to that end, why would i want to *knowingly* take on ANOTHER variable in this game?madirish
    • when there is more of a critical mass of glossy, hyper-saturated monitor displays, i will take on another monitor.madirish
    • same reason i do not know a *single* photog using or WILL use a glossy monitor; the output of corrected imagery to all mediums in not consistent.madirish
    • FFS!!
      ... and medium is not consistent.      madirish
    • SHUT THE HELL UP!jox
    • LOLmadirish
    • i'm tried matt monitor and glossy. never had any problem with both but i still prefer glossy.pango
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