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| I couldn't have said it better, except I would compare a matte screen to the yellowed headlights of a '47 Nash Rambler rather than an '87 Honda, but that's just me. I think one of the problems with a matte screen is that the treatment they apply to it, while attempting to diffuse the reflection, causes the reflection to occur nearer to the monitor surface, rather than deep into the glass as a glossy monitor would do. In so doing, it makes it more difficult to focus short of the reflection -- the two focal planes are too close together. That's my theory, but I don't have a matte monitor to test it at the present time. Pete On Jul 30, 2013, at 6:00 PM, After Effects Mail List wrote: > BIG huge second on that. The reflections on matte screens are unbearable. > Glossy screen reflections are easy to see past because they're pin points - > whereas matte screens are just blurred nasty blobs of reflections that > obscure the whole screen and make your graphics/video look like old foggy > yellow'd headlights from a 1987 Honda. At least that's been my experience > since the beginning of glossy screens. > > I have a big window behind me and never really notice it on my 27" Apple > display (LOVE) - but when I go to work on my cintiq (matte screen+wacom > surface) - it really bothers me and I have to black it out. > > So don't count glossy screens out - they really have a depth and > gorgeousness that can't be matched. I'd never buy matte again either. |
