TN = Less eyestrain?
Posted: 02 Oct 2020, 01:45
I've noticed a trend in the monitors I've used where I have less fatigue viewing TN panels with both moving & static content; this is despite them having objectively worse picture quality and even more noticeable grain in some cases. This hit me the other day as I was doing maintenance on the family computer which uses a budget TN from 2008, I didn't feel an urge to look away whereas I do with most monitors I've used with my PC.
For reference I got into PCs with a budget TN myself & moved up from it after a 6yr life in 2016. I've been frequently swapping monitors since having owned 3 VAs(all curved,) 2 IPS, and one other TN. I distinctly recall upon booting up the TN for the first time that despite it being a VQ downgrade from my previous monitor something seemed 'right' about it. En fact it's the only monitor I've owned since the original TN that I hadn't felt the need to continuously tweak the OSD settings on. With the VA/IPS monitors I've owned something always seems off about the brightness, I can never find a setting I'm comfortable with either feeling like I'm staring into a light directly or squinting to see what's going on. I haven't had any sensitivity with OLED phone screens/VR headsets but do with IPS phones/VR.
Does anyone have any clue what I might be noticing? Could this be something other than panel type? The fact that it seems to relate to brightness has me wondering about a backlight related factor but that doesn't really make sense considering VA should be the most capable at blocking the backlight from shining through(hence the high contrast.)
I'm trying to figure this out now as the market seems to be phasing out >1080p TNs and I need something I can use longterm comfortably until FALD/OLED comes down in price.
For reference I got into PCs with a budget TN myself & moved up from it after a 6yr life in 2016. I've been frequently swapping monitors since having owned 3 VAs(all curved,) 2 IPS, and one other TN. I distinctly recall upon booting up the TN for the first time that despite it being a VQ downgrade from my previous monitor something seemed 'right' about it. En fact it's the only monitor I've owned since the original TN that I hadn't felt the need to continuously tweak the OSD settings on. With the VA/IPS monitors I've owned something always seems off about the brightness, I can never find a setting I'm comfortable with either feeling like I'm staring into a light directly or squinting to see what's going on. I haven't had any sensitivity with OLED phone screens/VR headsets but do with IPS phones/VR.
Does anyone have any clue what I might be noticing? Could this be something other than panel type? The fact that it seems to relate to brightness has me wondering about a backlight related factor but that doesn't really make sense considering VA should be the most capable at blocking the backlight from shining through(hence the high contrast.)
I'm trying to figure this out now as the market seems to be phasing out >1080p TNs and I need something I can use longterm comfortably until FALD/OLED comes down in price.