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Crystal polarization always makes the viewing in portrait quite odd

• tgb 9y ago
  What's the difference between that for desktop displays and a handheld display that we frequently reorient without complaint? The smaller range of viewing angle? Different technology?
  • occamrazor 9y ago
    Text has many almost vertical oblique lines, but few almost horizontal ones. On non-retina displays Cleartype is more useful with vertically oriented sub-pixels.
• secabeen 9y ago
  On TN panels, yes. IPS panels aren't so bad.
• petecox 9y ago
  I must say I've never noticed but my old Samsung monitor explicitly came with a rotatable stand, so maybe it was designed for both. rant: can people taking eyewitness videos please shoot in landscape? It's one thing to view portrait on a phone but when your footage gets picked up by global news, billions are watching your 15 seconds of fame on a widescreen TV!