Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 20:52:57 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Screen cleaning and AR films
Hi all! I've just got a sample of that Optiview antireflective film (antireflective is probably NOT a good term for it though, more 'smartreflective', the idea being that its mirror-like surface reduces the 'unviewable' angle when there's a lot of light around and even when it is at the angle of maximum stray light reflection, the diffraction film on the surface means that in many cases the screen is still readable albeit with a very strong 'optical purple' cast you often see on camera lenses and the like) ... applied a small sample to the screen and the difference is incredible, even without a lot of light around. I never noticed this before but in comfortable viewing light, the original slightly rough surface actually scatters and separates out the light slightly so on, say, a 50% gray area you can normally see little colored dots, smaller than the actual pixels (tiny, no more obvious than on a good quality inkjet printer, I guess you could say it looks a bit like looking through very slightly dusty or frosty glass) but with that film on there filling in the 'roughness', the color is nice and smooth and the pixels are sharp, a bit like a glossy photograph (but with a lot less reflection and better saturation). Of course, with a lot of light around (eg. with a desklamp right on the screen) the difference is between hardly readable and comfortably readable. Anyway, enough singing of the praises of this film, I've got a bit of a question for anyone who may know ... before I apply the rest of the film, I've got to clean this screen. Which is a problem because I've not cleaned this screen for months (I used to clean it every time it got dirty but I found myself cleaning it 2-3 times a day which started annoying me). As a result, it has all sorts of marks on it, not all of which seem to want to come out with a good polish with a lint-free optical cleaning cloth. Can anyone recommend what would be good to use to clean this screen without risking eating into the surface? Cheers! - Raymond P.S. I've got a few photos showing the samples of film on the screen in situations where it seems to make an awful lot of difference, anyone sitting on the fence regarding getting the film and want to have a peek at them? -- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | | ICQ: 31756092 | Libretto IRC channel #Libretto on DALNet! | \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
