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Originally Posted by gmw
How often have you seen an LCD screen arrive with poorly balanced colour settings?
In my experience it seems quite typical for LCD screens to be sent out with brightness higher than necessary (for anyone intending to sit staring at it for long periods, as when reading).
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Typically near maximum for monitors and a setting suitable for outdoor use on phones and tablets. The last phone I could use in DIRECT sun was a Nokia E65 with a transreflective screen almost monochrome in sunlight.
I only use the tablet indoors and it's at about 5%. It's too shiny My laptop is at about 8% and I can read it all day as it's totally non-reflective, the room light is to the sides and curtains closed. Actually 2/3rds of the windowsill has bookshelves.
I've never seen automatic brightness that worked properly as none average the light falling on the screen. They first appeared on TVs in late 1950s and the current phone/tablet/TV screen ones are no better.
The screen brightness needs to be adjusted for the average ambient light on the screen.
The eink with front light off and adequate ambient light is most like reading paper as:
View angle has no effect on colour, contrast or brightness.
Screen brightness perfectly tracks ambient light.
An LCD may need readjustment to be perfect as you move it in your hand or your reading position.
Cheaper LCD backlights are too blue or purple/blue under artificial light and adjusting the LCD colour balance has a limited effect. View angle (parallax of filter) is an issue. Some LCDs are better, OLED might help. Most phones & tablets are shiny so reflections cause the eyes to unconciously refocus and you can get a headache if the reflection moves, even if it's just how you hold it.
So I've LCD laptop & monitors nearly as good as eInk, but because shiny is cheap and looks good in showroom and microetched is expensive and cheap matte blurs, you don't see many portable screens (LCD or OLED) that are good other than for casual use.