Comment by klyrs
3 years ago
> While a modern "night" scene might look what a dim area looks like the first 10 seconds before your eyes adapt: dim, gray-ish.
And that's if you're watching it in a theater-like setting. If you're in a living room with any lights on, the screen is so dark that little comes through but the reflection of the room. After all these years I still do not understand why glossy screens are so popular.
> glossy screens
if its glossy, you can move so the reflection is completely out of the screen
if it's matte, it'll always look a little frosty, right?
reasonable tradeoff either way, but for home theater, i can see why sleek black sells (not to mention how garbage matte would look in a bright store)
> if its glossy, you can move so the reflection is completely out of the screen
What? That's really not how reflective surfaces work. When the screen is dark, I can see the walls, the ceiling or the floor, the bookshelves... moving around does not help, it only changes what's in the reflection.