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Originally Posted by Rebo
The discussion all started off with a CNET article with the author calling up his own personal ophthalmologist as an expert witness who declares that today’s LCDs will not cause more eye strain. However, I’ll take his statement with a grain of salt.
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Oh, you don't need the salt; you just need to take their statements literally. "Strain" is something that in the medical world is usually correlated with muscles. In this case eye strain refers to the effect on the muscles that are pulling on the crystalline to focus the image. I'm sure that if they get to the point where they can make an E-ink desktop screen (insanity can go that far if supported by technology), people will complain about eye strain because the problem remains that the screen is just too far for reading.
As for the rest, dry eyes for example come from the lack of blinking, and have nothing to do with the screen. If you are saying that people who have an LCD will probably watch movies, and not blink for two hours, or scroll when they are reading a book, while people who have an E-ink blink every time they turn the page, then yes, people who were looking at the LCD will get dry eyes, but strictly speaking, it will not be the fault of the screen.