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Hmm.. I remember the Glare/Reflection arguments very well... actually there are still some people to this day that argue about it... when we're talking about LCD Monitors.
Good god it was so annoying to read the reviews of people who went and looked at the new MacBooks Apple was putting out at their store a few years back. They claimed to have reflected the entire world back to the user making everything completely unreadable. Apple was doomed, the world was ending, this is the worst idea ever who would think glossy displays are okay?
4 years of glossy displays later... Apple sales are up, MacBooks are incredibly popular computers and the glossy display has spread to a number of their other products. There's still a camp that is freaked out by the idea but it's dwindling.
This reminds me a lot of the eReader people. Based on reviews alone I cancelled an order for a PRS-700 and went with a PRS-505. Many of the online reviews made it sound like reading a 700 was comparable to trying to watch a movie underwater with no goggles.
Finally a few months after having my PRS-505 (Which I loved until I slept on top of it last week and smashed the screen) I ventured into a Sony store and asked to see the 700 display model. I was pissed. I thought I was barely supposed to be able to read the screen? Sure, it wasn't as contrasty as my PRS-505 - okay - but it wasn't anywhere near the doom and gloom reviews I've had seen and would have been HAPPY to own it.
Last week while shopping for a Kegorator I came across a display at Best Buy with the PRS-600. Best buy has huge bright lights beaming from the retail heavens above which did not seem to ruin my reading experience at all. Now that my 505 is broke and will probably cost me 200 times its unit cost to fix the screen I've opted for the 600. The only reason I'm unhappy this time around is because I really wanted to wait for the Daily Edition; maybe I'll sell this it a few months, but it won't be due to the glare on the screen.
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