Anti-Reflective Laptop Screens - What They Are
If you would like to know more about anti-reflective laptop screens, then you will want to read this article. Specifically, we will give a definition of what anti-reflective technology is, a bit of history on antireflective laptop screens, and also discuss all the different options available from different manufacturers. After you read this article, you should know more than you ever desire to know, in regards to anti-reflective laptop screens.
The main purpose of an anti-reflective screen is too reduce the glare from the monitor. In the past, before anti-reflective technology was perfected, LCD screens used to use a matte finish, to scatter light reflection. The only problem with this is that it would also blur the picture, limited the contrast, and dampen the color, among other things. At the time, it was a necessary evil, because it was better to have a lower quality picture than an intense glare that would give you a headache.
Then anti-reflective technology came along. Antireflective screens began to use polarization, to isolate the light source. In conjunction with this, optical coating was used to limit the light reflection. The optical coating is placed over the display lens, which is used on a laptop screen to project the picture. Antireflective screens first hit the market on desktop computers. The transition in LCD screens was a little the more of a trick, because it wasn't so easy to use as optical coating on a flat laptop LCD screen.
In addition to reducing glare, antireflective LCD screens also allow you to have a wider viewing angle. Depending upon what kind of person you are, this can be a good or bad thing. If you're somebody who values your privacy, and don't want people to be able to easily look over your shoulder, this is a negative. On the other hand, if you use your laptop screen to watch movies on, or for other multimedia purposes, then you will welcome a wider viewing angle. So who has antireflective laptop screens? Pretty much every major manufacturer. They all does call it something different. Acer calls theirs CrystleBrite, Dell's special model is TrueLife, Gateway uses the name UltraBright, and Sony prefers to call it Xbrite. And this is by far not an exhaustive list. We didn't even mention Toshiba's TruBrite, or Compaq's BrightView. Chances are if the model you're looking at has "Bright" in the title, it uses anti-reflective technology.
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