Christian SeligNov 27, 2023
I will never understand this phenomenon
Show threadt3rminus

@christianselig Left side: small and handheld. Reflections are small and the device can be easily repositioned if they become an issue.

Right side: often found in carefully controlled environments. Usually people take potential glare into account when setting up their TVs, or adjust the room to it (curtains/lights etc.)

Middle: too big to be easily repositioned if glare occurs, too small to have spaces designed around them. Mobile, not handheld, and big enough for glare to be a real problem.

Nov 28, 2023 at 1:46amWeb
Show threadChristian SeligNov 28, 2023
@t3rminus I can reposition my monitor a lot easier than I can reposition my TV lol
Show threadt3rminusNov 28, 2023

@christianselig but not as easily as you can reposition your phone, which is what I mean.

For a TV, you usually change the environment to suit it, either designing the layout to reduce glare from the start, or closing blinds and turning off lights to minimize glare that way.

Show threadChristian SeligNov 28, 2023
@t3rminus I can do that for my monitor too?
Show threadt3rminusNov 28, 2023

@christianselig but I feel there are more people stuck in badly-designed floor-to-ceiling windowed offices, under annoying “decorative” lights, on the table at a Starbucks, or in any other place where computers are an afterthought, and glare on screens is even less so.

You (and I) are lucky to be able to have a workspace we can control.

Show threadChristian SeligNov 28, 2023
@t3rminus That's fair! I just feel there should be more monitors made for us then, especially when so much of the world has shifted to WFH over the last few years