That is strange to me, because a colour tint is less bright than white to me, but it's an adjustable setting, so adjust it to where it is comfortable for you. At noon i will have it off, but in the evening blue is too blue for me, so I need it on then.
Losing hope...is a projector a good option for eyetrain?
Have you try a projector ? It worked for you ?
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Old thread but I wanted to relay some of my experiences here: it really depends on the projector…
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There's a bunch of Epson projectors at my college that I hate, immediately get tired in class if I look at them. First time I noticed this is because I realized I feel so much more awake and focused in class if I look at the wall or my notebook instead of the projector screen. Seems to be worse in classes where the professor is using a MacBook (even old ones) but still feel somewhat weird when a Windows laptop is connected to them as well. Especially when Macs are connected I get a super strong "false 3D effect", everything in YouTube videos looks like it has depth when it shouldn't. The weird thing is that they all say "3LCD" which implies they don't have the DLP flickering, but they still feel very flickery to me.
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Meanwhile, totally on the other hand, I have a Optoma UHD projector at home and I love it - super relaxing flat image and colors, I prefer it to TVs, both PS5 and AirPlay through Apple TV look great on it. However, it only started feeling this good after I changed one setting: you have to enable "Enhanced Gaming Mode". This disables a bunch of post-processing and most importantly limits it to 1080p. This is because the projector is actually only 1080p despite it's marketing, and uses "pixel shifting" to achieve 4K. Most "4K" projectors are like this. I can tell when this is happening because the pixel grid on the wall looks blurry. If I then film an image with text in slow motion while standing super close, all of the text actually has this super disgusting shifting and morphing effect going on.
(TBH, I honestly think I'm okay with pixel shifting when watching high motion content like movies, because when I finally noticed something felt off and I decided to film it in slow motion, it was when using it as a computer monitor and had the resolution set to 4K.)
Fortunately, pixel shifting on my Optoma projector can be ENTIRELY disabled with the gaming option - after doing that the "real" 1080p pixel grid becomes super obvious and slow motion footage becomes still. The only catch is realizing that you did not in fact "actually" buy a 4K projector because you'll be limited to 1080p from now on. After the tricks are gone it's easy to notice that all 4K content simply gets downscaled.
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Interesting discovery:
I think one of the reasons why I like my Optoma """UHD""" (yet actually 1080p) projector so much is that the pixel grid is unlike most displays I've used:
If pixel shifting is turned off, the lines that separate each grid cell become sharp. However, despite the obvious grid, the color inside each cell is still blurred enough where I can't see RGB subpixels.
This gives off the impression that it's a sharp grid but every cell has a smooth and pure color within, even if I walk up super close and look at an individual pixel. I'm not aware of other "actual" displays that work like this.
(by "actual", I mean that I am excluding low resolution "pseudo-displays" like arrays of huge diffused RGB LEDs which obviously don't have visible subpixels.)
This is typically unachievable with other displays - for example, if you walk up to a large TV it's easy to tell that every color is just an illusion created by subpixels. Matte coated monitors sometimes blur subpixels to an extent but then the pixel grid also becomes blurred too.
Many other projectors I've seen, including lower res ones that do not use pixel shifting, don't have a pixel grid that looks as "sharp" as my Optoma does and/or have more obvious color fringing.
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I think it's this combination of sharp grid "without" subpixels that makes my projector feel very "natural" to me. Due to this I'd say one of the things to definitely look out for when evaluating a projector is how the individual pixels look when you walk up close to the image.
DisplaysShouldNotBeTVs Interesting re the projector. What is the exact model number?