@Marius Do you mean the monitors that show as more yellow are tolerable by you without glasses? (Whereas the LG on the right is intolerable without glasses?) I would be thrilled to try some kind of similar test with my own situation- I have quite a long list of monitors that I could try this on. Do you have any details or specification about the glasses tint?

The problem is definitely related with the light emission. I know this because spending little time at front of a new display not only causes me eye strain but also a high skin pain. Refresh rate has nothing to do with it. It is related with the backlight type.

It happens to me with all new displays (TV, monitors, phones, notebooks and LED bulbs). I can use devices with old kind of backlights 24hs a day without any problem. Specially devices with CCFL or old LED backlights. The only exception I detected is with some big CCFL monitors with more nits (cd per m2) that also cause me problems.

The confirmation to this is that with old Samsung LED TV that were the first device that hurts me, I solve this problem by lowering the backlight option to the minimum. After that I could use it as normal.

It seems related with the maximum nits of the backlight that is always on, and with his light spectrum. Lowering the bright doesn't solve the problem, only the backlight. It seems that the dangerous light emitted by the backlight couldn't be completely filtered by the bright or contrast of the LCD that is at front of the light source.

    Marius That's extremely interesting.

    It might have to do with the fact that new monitors have already much less blue light than older monitors and on the contrary, have a much more intense red wavelength. That would explain why there is not much difference when you put your blue light blocking glasses.

    One of my theories is that the red peak wavelength emitted by recent monitors is one of the main causes of the eyestrain experienced by us here. It would act a bit like looking at a laser.

    RobC Same for me. I would also add new cars dahsboards cause the same pain to me…

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    RobC Sounds like we have a very similar problem. I've spent years trying to figure this out and I also feel confident it is the light emission itself. I'd love to find a newer (preferably gaming?) display that uses the older LED backlights that I can tolerate, but so far, nadda. If you have any success in that area please send a message. 🙂

    Why is it so expensive for non-prescription plastic?

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      Sunspark

      "Why is it so expensive for non-prescription plastic?"

      I can ask why prescription plastic should be expensive? Glass lenses are never custom made they are + or - 0.25 diopters steps, nobody makes glasses just for you vision correction. ZEPTER is an expensive compamy, some of their products are a scam. But this one including Bioptron patent are the non fake ones. Bioptron is medical device in hospitals worldwide.

      Polarized light can heal, it also can be damaging. Monitors are polarized light emitters, they need to fall to strict standards, yet nobody cares. This is why we have problems with eye pains and such.

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      @Gemsand

      Hi, i acknowledged your experience and valuable suggestions on displays. But those monitors are too old and difficult to find in market also i suspicious about is it compatible with modern systems while i'm thinking myself as gamer. Dont you have any suggestions with modern monitors for eye care? i'm also suffering with same problem. Thank you.

        Fakir35

        Alas, no sir. In the last 6 years I've managed to try about 30 (newer) monitors and none of them work for me. I did recently purchase the HP X27i on Aquila's recommendation and will be trying that next week, will post my experience here. I tried the BenQ TK700STi gaming projector a couple weeks ago and it caused the same problem for me- which is very interesting because it has no LEDs. It does flicker (240 Hz pixel shifting to do 4k, plus it's a DLP projector and the flashing sequential red/green/blue "painting" DLPs do in whites was very obvious), so I'm back to suspecting some kind of flicker (either in the backlight itself or in temporal dithering maybe) as my main problem. That also seems strange to me considering I've experienced an LED desk lamp that causes the same symptoms and an offensive monitor with the backlight on but with black screen still bothers me too. The screens I can use I can use for 12 hours a day without any issue whatsoever; but just minutes looking at the offensive devices affects my eyes for days. It's a weird puzzle I cannot seem to get to the bottom of. Let's all continue to share ideas. 🙂

          Gemsand

          I see… how about antiglare (matte) and hard coating screen? Is that also problem on eye strain?
          Beacuse i had a laptop which screen features are 15.6 inc, antiglare, 300 nit, 5 ms response time, 60 hz, IPS panel. With this features, there was nothing with my eyes, even i spent many hours. However i unable to look on modern desktop monitor by long hours due to eye strain. I used Asus VG24Q1A and BenQ Zowie XL 2411k.

            Gemsand I am ready to buy the X27i too, so let me know if it works for you 🙂

            Now i am trying LG GR95QE OLED 240HZ + Nvidia 4070 and is not good. Dizziness and migraine. I should try to watch some videos via chromecast in order to undestand if it's the monitor the problem or the GPU/Software. I have an LG B8 OLED tv that is perfectly fine with the right source.

              Fakir35 I personally have not found any correlation with screen coating and my symptoms. In general laptop screens tend to bother me less, but I haven't tested that many. Are you saying you use the Asus VG24Q1A without a problem?- I've tried the similar (but much older) Asus VG248QE and it was terrible for me. I recently traveled to another city just to view 30+ monitors on display and all the modern 24" 1080p high refresh rate monitors there seemed intolerable.

              Lauda89 Thanks for the info on the LG GR95QE OLED. (And you must have a new build- the 4070 is quite new. 🙂 ) In my case I never had worse eye pain than with a LG C8 OLED TV, driven by a PS5. It was terrible. I tried the recent 34" OLED Dell AW3423DW gaming monitor driven by a GTX 1080 and it was not usable (though not as immediately noticeable as the TV). Meanwhile, I seem to have no problems with any OLED handheld devices at all! I can't figure out the difference.

              I'll get back to you on the X27i within a week!

                Gemsand Keep in mind that my main problem is dizziness/migraine, not eye strain. I've used the PS5 for a couple of years without a problem, last game was horizon and now i am trying GOW and i can't play it more then 30 minutes.. So in my case, the problem seems to be related with the software mainly.
                I've tried also a QD-OLED the Samsung G8 and it went back. The LG still bad but i've decided to keep it because i like the 27 2K more than 34", so i am hoping to find the right combination of hardware+software with the LG monitor and smile again!
                Let's hope to hear good news from you! Good luck 🙂

                Gemsand Are you saying you use the Asus VG24Q1A without a problem?- I've tried the similar (but much older) Asus VG248QE and it was terrible for me

                No actually in contrast, i must say Asus VG24Q1A was terrible experience for me. My eyes after using it, was too much bloody.

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                Aquila

                I tried the HP X27i recommended by Aquila, but unfortunately it did NOT work for me- I could tell within 10 seconds it was causing that burning sensation in my retinas! I did give it a thorough shot thought, I played around with all the settings- it's a great monitor and I could get the color very stable looking. But after playing around for only 10 minutes I was relieved to put it back in the box and my eyes hurt for the rest of the day. Thank you for the suggestion Aquila! It looks like we have different issues.

                  Gemsand

                  I can not understand what is problem with monitors and eye comfort?
                  I'm also trying almost everything;
                  **Purchase and tried 3 panel (IPS,VA,TN)
                  *Switch connect cable (DP,HDMI)
                  *Set brightness,contrast,blue light filter and other thing etc…. Refresh rate… as well as using f.lux
                  *Set viewing angle,
                  *Change rooms lightening conditions
                  *Also switch settings from GPU.

                  Finally i'm gonna crazy. I dont get it i had no issues with my laptop and i have eye burning a lot since i bought modern monitor. I wish panel manufacturers should aware this. I'm also keep searching desperately, if i found i will post here.*

                  qb74

                  This sounds EXACTLY like me. Something universal seems to have changed across all types of screens. I have two old HP Elite Display E221i that I still use for work. Every modern monitor I've tried to change them with makes me feel sick almost immediately (hard to describe but something like motion sickness - foggy, headache, dizzy, and my body starts to feel very warm). I first noticed this when I upgraded to the iPhone X when it came out. I almost called 911 when I was setting it up because my symptoms were so severe (before I realized it was from the phone). Now I seem to get this feeling from monitors, laptops, many TV's, car screens etc. Old monitors I have no issues with. I use an Iphone SE 3 that I assume is still okay because it uses old screen technology.

                  I don't have a solution to any of this but you aren't alone.

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