Switch to OLED monitors for less blue light at night
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One of the biggest sources of blue light at night might actually turn out to be the "black" color of most common computer screens. This is because LCDs, the most common type right now, have something called blacklight bleed (BLB) where the crystals are imperfect polarizers, letting a little bit of the blacklight through even in the darkest colors.
I've noticed this as kind of a baseline light shining on me when I use my computer at night (and all the lighting is red). And since the blacklights are tuned to be around 6500K in color, this results in tons of blue light.
Only CRTs and OLEDs don't have this issue. They emit exactly zero (0) light in black pixels. Almost nobody wants CRTs anymore, so OLEDs are the only option. I'm personally holding out for the new tandem OLED monitors launching in the next few weeks because they will have longer lives and better colors than the current generation of displays.
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@engineer which tandem oled monitors?
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@sunsunsun said in Switch to OLED monitors for less blue light at night:
@engineer which tandem oled monitors?
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@engineer thx
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@engineer is LG 32" new tandem oled le good?
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@sunsunsun said in Switch to OLED monitors for less blue light at night:
@engineer is LG 32" new tandem oled le good?
it better be, it just got announced along with the asus, but the existing offerings appear to be incredible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoGUZcpKa9M
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@engineer Any suggestions for lowering black light level on an IPS? Is lowering brightness and increasing contrast beneficial? What about gamma levels?
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@Milk-Destroyer if you want to reduce the minimum brightness then all you can do is reduce the backlight. You can reduce the maximum brightness with something like the Dark Reader extension or a color temperature change. I don't think gamma would make a meaningful difference because the brightest brights will be just as bright and it will reduce only midtones.
