Sindre
Hello I can try to get a video sometime soon. I have not tried it yet since I am flared up from another device at the moment + being sick with covid which messed with my vision further. I am taking a break from my phone and going to try it soon when I feel better. Just dont want to try anything new until I feel ready. I feel very hopeful, will post again here when I try it. The fans arent that bad, I was expecting them to be louder.

The spectrometer is a uprtek mk350n premium. They are over $2k new but there is someone on ebay selling them brand new cheaper from japan, thats where i bought mine.

beyondthelight
LOL thats funny! I am hoping it works great for me, I dont want to be plugged into the matrix anymore with blue light.

ensete
Yup. They have an open source guide on their website on making one out of a laptop.

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        @jordan Any update? It is good to see that the product is legitimate. Since the light source is healthier than LED, I am curious about other factors such as TCON issues, pixel inversion patterns, dithering, other image processing issues, etc. I ultimately hope to order one of these, but it seems like modern LCD panels have issues beyond the backlight, so I hoped see a more in-depth review before making such a sizable investment.

          macsforme

          photon78s

          I just have had a lot going on after I got it so I have not sat down with it for a good amount of time yet so will try and do that maybe after thanksgiving when I have some time! I also am trying to figure out what hardware to run since I dont have a confirmed safe pc/os, main reason why I havent just went for it and tried it fully yet. If my pc ends up dithering itll make me feel terrible for awhile since im super sensitive so just waiting for a time where I dont have anything upcoming going on in case of a flare up. The seller did say he did not see any dithering under a microscope when connected to a older intel macbook running fedora gnome with x11. Ill try to get to this soon!

                moonpie It's just lightbulbs and fans

                its not as easy as that, there are many variables involved in making a thermally equilibrated product to last for many years, and sure you can make a home, why dont you show us how to build one with just fans and bulbs? Instead of praising this new solution and looking into it, you seem to be mocking it and desacralizing it, there is no constructive anything in that.

                  jordan I just have had a lot going on after I got it so I have not sat down with it for a good amount of time

                  can't believe you still have not used it.

                    moonpie

                    So you can forecast the future and can criticize something you have not even seen with your own eyes or felt with your hands, let alone made one, lol, to see if what you say has any substance, talk about having hubris, but thats ok, there are many people like that, let each one choose their path, you must be from some place at conflict with their neighbors constantly, that needs that attitude to make a living. May one day you follow the good light brother, until then, Au revoir! 👋

                      With 30 years of experience into this matter, I can also say that the problem is not the spectrum of light, because that would be resolved with blue blocking glasses. Also, why would a CRT television from 90's and a video project cause eye strain, if it was the LED or the spectrum?

                      These LCD displays with some backlight gimmick or reflective technology are not going to help anyone who has a real issue.

                        moonpie You have made your position clear that the causes of eye strain are more limited than what others have proposed. For those of us who wish to objectively evaluate factors such as spectrum (this topic), it would be helpful to keep the signal-to-noise ratio high.

                        The possibility of heat damage to the display causing discoloration is a valid concern. I hope that their ventilation design, as well as the depth of the light box itself, will mitigate this. Time will tell.

                        I suspect that a DIY design would prove more difficult than initially thought. For one, to get an even backlight (and to mitigate heat, as discussed above), one would likely have to experiment with diffuser characteristics and the gap between the bulbs and panel. If this company has solved these problems, personally I am willing to pay a reasonable premium versus attempting a DIY.

                            Maxx

                            So in your 30 years of experience you must have tried an incandescent backlit monitor right? otherwise what is backing your claims that it does not work if you have not used one

                              macsforme

                              I agree that there are many valid questions regarding new technologies and this incandescent monitor regarding heat dissipation and many other things, but the company has solved all these problems, it has been over 5 years of development, this is not something that came yesterday, many prototypes had to be built to arrive to the proper design and proper functioning. I can tell you that the heat dissipates perfectly, screen does not get hot, and there will be no discoloration of any kind as time goes on, that's non sense, back is glass.

                              And regarding the spectrum, yes its the widest there is available, full 100 CRI, and yes spectrum does matter because infrared light is healing, and this spectrum has tons of infrared, and also its the nature of the photons themselves, which are incandescent and not luminescent, and people that were lucky to have lived around incandescent bulbs know how gentle this light is.

                                moonpie

                                make one and we can talk further.

                                Why hate and speculate when you can help create and negotiate?

                                  dev