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Nothing's more frustrating than working on your laptop and seeing your mug reflected on the display. NEC's new "super-transmissive natural light TFTs" might put an end to those days. They claim the screens can display vivid colors regardless of the environment you're in. So you can be plopped down at a Park somewhere on a sunny day and you'll get a glare-free picture. The models range in sizes from 10.4-inches to 15, the downside is their resolution tops out at 1,024x768. For the moment, NEC plans on using the new displays on kiosks. Let's hope they find their way onto laptop screens too.
NEC Natural Light LCD for Bright Days [LaptopLogic via Reg Hardware]
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Yeah, this new glossy screen craze is pretty annoying in my opinion. You need to be in just the right lighting or there's massive glare.
Looking at just the examples above, I'd take the screen on the right rather than the screen on the left, if that's supposed to be representative of "non-glare" LCD tech. The dull whiteout affect on the left obliterates the contrast and conceals more of the screen's contents than the sharper reflective glare on the right.
My Fuji F30's screen has an anti-glare coating and exhibts the same problem. The glare is still there, but it's just been converted into a splotchy spot that's brighter than the rest of the screen.
@Drizzten -- The pic isn't showing off NEC's new displays. It's just a reminder of how much screen glare sucks.
Now you just can't see the screens?? Or like Louis says, are these just pictures of laptops with really bad glare?
I have a cheap hp laptop with no glare problem. A friend came over so I could fix her laptop. She has some huge Dell that cost a small fortune and it has the worst glare I've ever seen.
Did they create the problem just so they could solve it? My son has a laptop circa 1993 and there is no glare problem. Am I missing something?
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