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It really bugs me for my monitor to not be at or near max brightness because of how terrible the colors look at low brightness, even on high end IPS panels. Thi

It really bugs me for my monitor to not be at or near max brightness because of how terrible the colors look at low brightness, even on high end IPS panels. This isn’t an issue on my OLED phone, which has great colors even at the lowest brightness, but nobody makes 27” OLED monitors and if they did they’d be prohibitively expensive.

tadfisher 8y ago
Are you speaking subjectively, or are you saying reducing the backlight level is affecting the color reproduction of your IPS display? I've found that while I may need to recalibrate with my Spyder, color accuracy is essentially unchanged at 50% brightness.
- TimTheTinker 8y ago
  Display brightness establishes the absolute limits of its output color space (i.e. the display's dynamic range). By which I mean: bright colors won't be anywhere as bright with a dim display as they would be when the brightness is turned up. And the difference between dark and light colors is more pronounced with a higher brightness level.
brobdingnagians 8y ago
I use Redshift continuously day & night and at first it looked really weird with the red tint, but after awhile my brain got used to it and now I don't notice at all (and it is a lot more comfortable), looking at other peoples' screens looks blindingly bright; makes me feel like a vampire...
dzhiurgis 8y ago
Man I would pay a lot for 15-17" MacBook (or properly supported Linux machine) with proper OLED screen (from what I read the already discontinued Lenovo's suck at direct sun).
- BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
  As I understand it, OLED burn-in is a _mitigated_ problem but not a _solved_ problem, and I wouldn't expect to see OLED monitors so long as that state of affair continues.
  - dzhiurgis 8y ago
    We got phones adopting OLED for a while now. Their expected lifetime is getting close to laptops... Also burn-in might not be such a big deal for developers (a category that Apple more or less ignores).

tadfisher 8y ago

Are you speaking subjectively, or are you saying reducing the backlight level is affecting the color reproduction of your IPS display? I've found that while I may need to recalibrate with my Spyder, color accuracy is essentially unchanged at 50% brightness.

TimTheTinker 8y ago
Display brightness establishes the absolute limits of its output color space (i.e. the display's dynamic range). By which I mean: bright colors won't be anywhere as bright with a dim display as they would be when the brightness is turned up. And the difference between dark and light colors is more pronounced with a higher brightness level.

brobdingnagians 8y ago

I use Redshift continuously day & night and at first it looked really weird with the red tint, but after awhile my brain got used to it and now I don't notice at all (and it is a lot more comfortable), looking at other peoples' screens looks blindingly bright; makes me feel like a vampire...

dzhiurgis 8y ago

Man I would pay a lot for 15-17" MacBook (or properly supported Linux machine) with proper OLED screen (from what I read the already discontinued Lenovo's suck at direct sun).

BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
As I understand it, OLED burn-in is a _mitigated_ problem but not a _solved_ problem, and I wouldn't expect to see OLED monitors so long as that state of affair continues.
- dzhiurgis 8y ago
  We got phones adopting OLED for a while now. Their expected lifetime is getting close to laptops... Also burn-in might not be such a big deal for developers (a category that Apple more or less ignores).