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Originally Posted by ProDigit
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.
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There's a major difference between transflective and reflective...
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Reflective liquid crystals are unique because they operate without the use of a backlight. Instead, they rely solely on ambient light. This allows the device to consume very little power. In fact, the power consumption is typically reduced up to 60% more so than other liquid crystal displays, such as the transflective displays. Some of the older calculators used the reflective displays.
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Transflective displays basically adapt to their surroundings, making them somewhat superior to their reflective counterparts. When color is needed, transflective displays have become very common and often popular to use. A transflective liquid crystal display reflects most of the ambient light that may surround it and adapts to the amount of light within the user’s area.
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(from
http://www.screentekinc.com/resource...flective.shtml)
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Originally Posted by Abelturd
But then there are other things that speak in favor of eink and which drove me away from lcd screens: lcds reflect the ambient light a great deal more than eink and usually (in my experience) you have to hold the device right before you at a 90 degrees angle, because if tilted the readability goes down fast. So you can't just put it horizontally in front of you on a table or on bed, always have to hold it in your hand at near 90 degrees angle to your eye axis.
And this is not a matter of personal taste, you all must have noticed this.
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No, I haven't noticed this at all. Yes, on the older PDA that is true. But on the newer one (the transflective one), I have perfect view at all angles.