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I wish the article explained why redesigning the monitor to use ambient light is better than turning down the "brightness" setting. Anyone know?
by progne 3y ago
I wish the article explained why redesigning the monitor to use ambient light is better than turning down the "brightness" setting. Anyone know?
- CommieBobDole 3y agoBecause "hey, turn down your brightness a little, dude" is not a product you can sell for money.
- actionfromafar 3y agoHow about, turn the brightness up to match the suns? Can't do that very easily either. If anything, I think this screen should have the option of collecting ambient light from an even larger area. It's actually somewhat genius. It's also interesting with color temperature. I guess it's a CRI of 100 in day light?
- hu3 3y ago> How about, turn the brightness up to match the suns? Can't do that very easily either. My phone has a setting for that. And it's possible to do with a webcam + monitor: https://askubuntu.com/questions/23593/use-webcam-to-sense-lighting-condition-and-adjust-screen-brightness https://askubuntu.com/questions/23593/use-webcam-to-sense-li... There's probably some software for that.
- fwmcbumcrumble 3y agoI don't understand why more device don't have ambient light sensors built into them. Phones have been doing this amazingly for 15+ years but almost no displays do. I think I saw a TV a while back that did, but that's 1 out of the 10 billion models out there.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoMy cheap Benq monitor has a ambient light sensor, and I disabled it because it sucks. It never manages to set the exact brightness I would consider right for me in every scenario. Instead I much prefer to control it manually via the mouse scroll wheel and DDCI, that way I can adjusted exactly to my liking every moment of the day. On phones this feature makes sense because as you walk and move around the ambient brightness shining on the screen changes rapidly but on a indoor PC monitor in a room/office, the ambient light is relatively stable because you can control it via light switches or window blinds, so manual control is fine.
- marcosdumay 3y agoIMO, phones have been doing this horribly for 15+ years, with no signal that it will ever be good enough. I would never buy a TV with that.
- olyjohn 3y agoWe had a Sony Trinitron CRT TV that had a brightness sensor on it like 35 years ago. It also worked horribly.
- mat_epice 3y agoMy Dell laptop had one, which was very poorly done. Sitting in a dimly lit room, I would catch it self adjusting every several seconds. I ended up disabling it.
- actionfromafar 3y agoYour phone is hardly as bright as the sun though.
- itishappy 3y ago> I guess it's a CRI of 100 in day light? CRI tests illumination sources, not displays. I suppose you could crank the display to max white and hold it up to the test pigments; that'd tell you something about the display's filters, but I'm not sure how useful it would be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index
- layer8 3y agoTurning brightness too low also reduces contrast (e.g. for text). There’s a middle ground with adequate ambient lighting and moderate brightness setting.