I am sure contrast is a variable but overall this still doesn't seem to solve the issue for me. A faint grey pencil on paper is not straining, but even the best

I am sure contrast is a variable but overall this still doesn't seem to solve the issue for me. A faint grey pencil on paper is not straining, but even the best contrast displays like OLED are very straining. It's literally again the light shining at you and the entire thing you are looking at being a light source that I believe is the problem. I don't see sparkles or glows or any of those sorts of things looking at printed text or reflective tech...but I do see it when an LCD display is backlit. Even the blackest black on an LCD, on a white background, has an illuminated feel vs a printed/flat feel. The only time reflective tech/paper bothers me is if there isn't enough light to see normally as with anyone. LCD's, esp most LED ones, it's nearly all the time. If I look at a matte LCD display (glossy doesn't work in this example due to reflection) in bright sunlight there is a narrow window of display brightness where the things are bright enough to be readable but the sunlight overwhelms the "lit" effect and it appears sort of like you would expect color E-ink too...more flat and printed like the display is now reflective rather than backlit..but it's a very narrow sweet spot that's hard to maintain and I cannot seem to replicate well with artificial lighting inside as it takes a lot more than a 60w bulb even directed right at the display and glare starts to become a factor with a more concentrated light source vs ambient, indirect light from outside. Brightness too low and it's unreadable due to contrast, too high and you get the glow again. To me the root problem is the backlighting somehow...possible combined with dithering or other rendering games that cause even static images to be moving as far as the eye is concerned. But it's not a common enough issue for industry to care about, and as with most things, until individuals suffer from something themselves, they often refuse to believe it's an issue for others.