I have been struggling with acute head ache and bloodshot eyes...mostly due to Apple's temporal dithering - in their latest MacBook pro and also their new OLED iphone range. However, I'm perfectly fine using any pre -2016 Laptops/Desktops especially the ones with Intel HD 5200 shared graphics. I am now mostly working with my 2016 HP Elite book 840 G3 which is a godsend!!! With my 15" MBP, i tried switching off the Intel UHD graphics and enabled settings to always to run with the discrete ATI Radeon graphics. Together with Blue filter, Night mode it made things slightly better but the dithering is still active as it delays the effect but eventually kicks in. I tried connecting my MBP to my LG OLED TV via HDMI but still felt the dithering as it did not treat it like a true 10 bit monitor. My last hope is to connect to a true 10 bit monitor and not an 8 bit + FRC via a Display port to see if MBP will not see a need to dither anymore. It would be really great if someone could point me to a reasonable 10 bit monitor not particular about response times or refresh rates!

I wouldn't hold your breath. Macbooks even dither on cinema displays. As far as we can tell, it's locked on and will never turn off, irrespective of monitor.

Thanks Gurm for the reply...yes I now have settled for a pre-2017 Windows laptop.Hope we have a respite soon...

JTL changed the title to Will a true 10 bit monitor deactivate temporal dithering in MBP 2018? .
3 years later

Any update on this? Any one have successful in true 10 bit monitor?

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