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I tried and it doesn't work on my MBA on El Capitan 11.6. There's kind of the same thing on my TV, and it sucks balls. The changes in brightness is extremely
by xgbi 10y ago
I tried and it doesn't work on my MBA on El Capitan 11.6.
There's kind of the same thing on my TV, and it sucks balls.
The changes in brightness is extremely unnerving, especially for action scenes where the light intensity varies a lot. So it was the first thing I disabled.
So IMHO this won't work that well.
- what_ever 10y agoI think you are being too dismissive. I agree that it doesn't work too well for videos. But if I am jumping between a dark terminal or IntelliJ screen and a web browser with white background, this would be perfect. Look at the gif posted in the submission.
- ulrikrasmussen 10y agoDynamic brightness on TVs was made by manufacturers in order increase contrast ratios in specs. In practice it is one of the many useless "sales" features, along with excessive sharpening filters, which has to be disabled in order to actually use the TV. That being said, I think the effect will be less unnerving in an interactive environment where you control the contents of the screen. My phone also automatically adjusts brightness based on the brightness levels outside, and I don't find that annoying.
- dingo_bat 10y agoYour phone probably doesn't vary brightness based on screen contents.
- qu4z-2 10y ago"dynamic contrast" is the worst. That said, it looks like this works the opposite way -- it dims the backlight for mostly-white content, and boosts it for mostly-black. The fading could still be annoying, but at least it won't practically turn off the backlight when I switch to a terminal...
- sspiff 10y agoThis kind of thing was baked into the Linux driver for the AMD Radeon HD6310 on a netbook I bought in 2010. It was very unpleasant and impossible to disable. Later drivers did not seem to have that feature.