Gurm I've had the best luck with Skinomi's
Here's the version of TechArmors I have used with success, but they are making them for less models
https://www.amazon.com/Protector-Tech-Armor-Anti-Glare-Anti-Fingerprint/dp/B00MFHR25CGurm I've had the best luck with Skinomi's
Here's the version of TechArmors I have used with success, but they are making them for less models
https://www.amazon.com/Protector-Tech-Armor-Anti-Glare-Anti-Fingerprint/dp/B00MFHR25CNow that I know it's the matte protector you prefer, I am able to determine more information.
It's PET film, Polyethylene terephthalate aka polyester aka plastic recycling symbol #1.
This means that it has to do with light polarization. A common problem with smartphones and photography for general people is that when they are wearing polarized sunglasses and turn their phones from portrait to landscape it goes black and they can't see the screen anymore. The solution in these cases is to introduce a film to change the polarization, or to get non-polarized sunglasses.
This video clip demonstrates the effect of introducing a polyester film (overhead slide projector sheet) when filming through polarized sunglasses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd_UhC5aHMMPilots know about this issue because many windscreens and cockpit instruments are polarized, so they need to use non-polarized sunglasses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t5GHR6opfIaround the 2:30 mark of this video you can see them demonstrating the effect on the cockpit instruments.
So polarization can cause or prevent eye strain? What might be the reasons?
ensete ensete what is your phone type that use skinomi that doesnt make eyestrain ?do you feel headache or migraine after eyestrain if you don't use skinomi ? i have follow your posts for a while and your sympthomp and cause of headache are almost same with me except i don't have any eyestrain,no tired eyes,no teary eyes and no red eyes but only headache and if i using device too long i got migraine at behind my left side head for a day.what is your brightness setting on your phone with skinomi or is any brigthness level doesnt matter ?and are you disable dithering on your phone with skinomi ?if yes,how to disable dithering ?i have search skinomi on my local shops but all of them dont sell it and fortunately i found skinomi in my local online shop but they just sell skinomi for s7 edge,and i have asus zenphone 2 but i dont care,i still order it and must wait 1-2 day for the skinomi arrive.can you tell me,If there are some setting on your phone with skinomi that make you can use it 100% ?,i think this my last resort for try to using smartphone if this is fail too i will give up and just using stupidphone
After three months of testing the dell xps8910 desktop with nvidia geforce gt 730 graphics card and BenQ GW2760HS monitor. Now I think I can safely report that this setting works for me. It is still not perfect, but MUCH MUCH better than my yoga pro laptop with Dell ST2310 lcd monitor. It is not easy to reach this conclusion because many factors had to be controlled and ruled out. I think the discrete nvidia graphics card is a game changer for me. The monitor is directly connected to the graphics card, not the motherboard. The integrated graphics card is disabled. I have a similar set up at home with nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti card and BenQ EW2440L monitor. It works fine too. OS is windows 8.1 at work and windows 7 at home. Tried linux on the computer at home for a few days, but did not feel any noticeable improvement over windows. I may go back to test linux for a longer period of time. I also tried my old Dell ST2310 lcd monitor at 100% brightness, not as good as the BenQ monitors, so I guess I am sensitive to dithering since the dell monitor use FRC.
That is the correct ICC profile. Mind doing a test for me? Remove the ICC profile and see if your symptoms return. You can easily add it back
So using the manufacturer's icc profile helps to reduce eye strain. This is god to know. But it does not get rid 100% of the eye strain, right? That means there must be something else that is (still) causing us eye strain.
Can u try one more thing? For Monitor driver, try using Generic PnP driver instead of the manufacturer's one. See if that helps. Here's how to do it:
Control Panel -> Device Manager -> Monitor -> select monitor and right click -> Update Driver Software -> Browse my computer for driver software -> Let me pick from a list of device drivers from my computer -> Generic PnP Monitor -> click Next.
When I use the Generic PnP monitor driver on my laptop, I do noticed a very noticeable relief in eye strain. It's like the eye strain is significantly reduced. When I switch the monitor driver back to the Lenovo's driver, I definitely feel the eye strain more. When I switch back to the Generic PnP monitor driver, noticeably less eye strain. Can you give it a try and see if it has any effect on your eye strain or not?
Hmm...that's interesting. Yeah, maybe it works for laptop better, i dont know. Can you share the specs of your desktop? The laptop that i use to test the generic PnP driver is a lenovo T440p laptop, Windows 7, integrated intel graphics.
On my desktop computer, (which thankfully i get no eye strain) i am also using generic pnp monitor driver for my benq flicker-free monitor. My desktop is on windows 7, nvidia GTX 760.