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Originally Posted by Justice Strike
This is a picture I found which clearly illustrates what i'm getting versus what I expected to get. See my silver prs600 pictures posted earlier. Those are pretty similar to what you see here. Those where taken with a fluorescent bar shaped lights with plastic diffusors. I suspect this picture was the same.
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I have a possible reason for why reflection's so bad for some people, outside of the fact that the screen is definitely prone to them... and the idea struck me after looking at that photo again.
To everyone who reads the PRS-600 and had screen issues; how many of you held them at a right angle to yourself or flat against a surface like a newspaper, with your back to a light source, and how many of you held them at a bit of an angle the way you might read a paperback novel? One thing I did notice, especially indoors (and playing with the display model) is that if you hold it at a right angle to the ceiling or else flat against a surface, the screen
WILL catch all of the light in the room and reflect it straight into your eyes. No ifs, ands, or buts - especially without some sort of book-cover style case (the Sony cases, the M-Edge cases) to cut out some of the glare from any light sources to the side. If you hold it at an angle like reading a paperback novel on a moving bus, the light mostly glares off the sides of the reader or at the very top or very bottom edge of the screen itself and away from your face.
I think the whole 'how you hold the reader' thing falls under personal preference, but I'm betting that's why Sony let the PRS-600 (and the 700 before it) leave the prototyping stage with the current design which has caused literal headaches to many of the people who were dissatisfied (and some who are satisified) with the reader. It's definitely a design issue with the reader, much as the PRS-700's even more glare-ridden screen was before it.. and I think this has to do with the way Sony's designers never seemed to think of how the reader was held, outside of adding a non-slip back to the PRS-300 and PRS-600.
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Originally Posted by Justice Strike
I think your right.... but i don't care. The screen is basic functionality. It's the most critical part of the device. If it's not working to expectiation, it really defeats the purpose of the device.
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True, but that's again a personal preference, and I suspect some of the issues people had would have been cleared up by having a book-style cover or a bit more thought on the part of the designers when considering how people would use these. I think people's reading habits do factor into how bad the glare is, unless there's also a hardware issue that makes the glare worse on some of the PRS-600's sold.