Swapped barakta's pair of decent-if-oldish Iiyama monitors for a couple of mismatched crusty Dells that were doing menial duties elsewhere, to what she reports is a vast improvement.
So, does anyone make decent matte displays in the Century of the Fruitbat? Word on the gamerwebs seems to be Eizo. I blame Steve, who will have lived in a world of impeccable lighting design and probably enjoyed fastidiously polishing his monitor every morning.
Probably doesn't help that my 12 year old Eizo L768 is matt and still performs better than most, although I would say its strength is colour rendition rather than contrast. They may have changed since then.
Given barakta's visual issues, it seems that glare reduction and elimination of flicker override pretty much all other monitor-selection criteria. I suppose I'd also consider a crusty Dell to be an improvement if it instantly cured my headache.
Given that she's got the same number of pixels that she had previously, we're going to see how she gets on with them for a while before considering an upgrade.
But yeah, shiny screens are a complete pain in the, erm, eyes. The advantages are outweighed by the disadvantages in all but the most optimal lighting conditions. I reckon they're particularly stupid on portable devices, for that reason. Humbug.
