How to rid your HDTV of reflections (Albuquerque Journal)
(Credit: Geoffrey Morrison)
Most people don’t like watching TV in the dark. The problem is, flat-panel TVs
tend to reflect light in the room. Even if you have a matte-screen LCD, light
bouncing off the screen is going to diminish picture quality in one way or
another.
This how-to guide has some obvious and some not-so-obvious tricks and tips to
help you make sure that no matter what lighting you have in your room, you’re
still getting the best picture quality.
The problem Most flat-panel TVs these days have glossy screens, which act like
a mirror for any light source in a room (from windows to lamps). If you have a
glossy screen TV, and you’re reading this guide, chances are you know exactly
what I’m talking about.
What’s interesting is that even though matte-screen LCDs don’t have the
mirrorlike reflections, ambient light in a room still adversely affects them.
This is because instead of bouncing the light right back at you, a matte-
screen LCD spreads that light energy across the whole screen. Reflections are
lessened, but black level goes up (lightens).
The easiest fix Turn off the lights, right? Well, sort of. There’s a reason
people …
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