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Old 05-01-2012, 05:47 PM   #78
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Originally Posted by tdonline View Post
Stupid question alert:

If reading a backlit screen does give me eyestrain, why would a screen lit from the edges not?
For the same reason that reading a peice of paper with a lamp over to the side does not. Unless of course that DOES, then this probably will, too.
It's a fact that some folk find backlit screens perfectly comfortable.

I suspect, without any science to back up my hunch, that for me, it's the difference between having soft light reflected off a diffuse near-white surface vs. staring into a half a million little specular light sources.

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