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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
I've been reading on my LCD for 7 years(?) I've no problems with eyesore and I do a lot of heavy reading... I think it depends on the person. I've known people that could watch at a 60Hz CRT screen without getting a headache (while I got one just glancing at it...)
I did wonder how long I did with one battery charge on my PDA... I think I'll try to measure it this week...
When I read at night, I have a black screen with an off-white lettering. Works perfectly. When I'm reading in the sun (yes, I can read in direct sunlight), I've an off-white background with black lettering.
Which leads met to wonder what kind of LCD screen it is, transflective or not... I wonder if people who think that you can't read from a LCD screen ever seen a transflective screen. It makes all the world of a difference.
Comparing the two PDA's we have at home, one with a transflective screen and one with a more conventional display, I notice the main difference is the way the backlight works. On my PDA (the transflective one), you cannot see the backlight, it is evenly spaced across the screen. On the older PDA, you can see where the backlight is hidden behind the screen. There are two brighter areas. And you can't see anything on that older PDA if you're outside... While on my PDA, it doesn't matter at all whether I'm inside with the backlight on or outside, in full sun-light, with the backlight off.
Edit:
Some searching found me this:
Graphical-subsystem
Display+Type: color transflective TFT display
Display;Color;Depth: 16 bit/pixel (65536 scales)
Display-Diagonal: 7 " (178 millimetres)
Display+Resolution: 800 x 480 (384000 pixels)
Viewable  isplay-Size: 6.01 " x 3.61 " (152.63 x 91.58 millimetres)
Dot_Pitch: 133.1 pixel/inch (0.19079 millimetre/pixel)
It is starting to look better and better! |
You could call it transreflective, though a 'reflective' screen would be a more correct name.
Reflective screens for laptops are of the last 5 years, and are basically screens that have no anti-glare filter on them,allowing the sunrays to 'freely' travel through and back the LCD screen.
I also used my laptop outside on minimum brightness, but due to different polarization filters my screen looks green/yellow/greyish.
An anti glare filter will scatter any incoming light, so you won't be distracted by reflections on the screen, but the con is that in strong sunlight, the light will be shattered all over the filter, and you will not be able to see anything of the display or screen.