Why they still make matte coatings on modern displays

[kurse33]

I hate matte coatings its the second worst thing after moving from crt to lcd panels.
These coatings are easy to stracth, traps dust and hairs its hard to keep it clean it also mess up with image quality.
In the future would love to see brands giving option for coating because Im tired of this bs.
My old benq monitor I scratched it while cleaning I was planing to remove the coating but after seeing the process I dont believe I can do it.
You guys same the same thought as me?

Thanks for reading have a nice day.

[Erxandros]

I don't really mind good quality matte coatings, they are good for office environments. I have a steam deck with the anti-glare etched glass and that is a good hybrid between matte and glossy without the need for a coating. I hope more devices like tablets and handheld devices come with that type of etched glass in the future.

[kyube]

I hate matte coatings its the second worst thing after moving from crt to lcd panels.
These coatings are easy to stracth, traps dust and hairs its hard to keep it clean it also mess up with image quality.
In the future would love to see brands giving option for coating because Im tired of this bs.
My old benq monitor I scratched it while cleaning I was planing to remove the coating but after seeing the process I dont believe I can do it.
You guys same the same thought as me?

Thanks for reading have a nice day.

You can apply a screen protector on top of your matte coating display if you'd like to enjoy a glossier experience.
For example: https://www.photodon.com/anti-reflectiv ... ector.html

They are decently easy to apply, but I cannot guarantee a fault-proof process as dust may interfere with this.

[Bobo]

We need a list of non matte monitors.

[DeltaForCain]

Well, many modern high-end displays use glossy screens – most OLEDs for sure.

[oneils]

My desk is right beside a 12 foot high window. A glossy screen would probably make it pretty difficult to read anything.
And I like working in the sunlight sometimes.
In the office there are tons of overhead lights that create a bunch of glare. I don't think glossy would work there.

I had a glossy hp screen once. It was nice but I was constantly staring at my reflection and it was pretty distracting.

If most of my time in front of screen was in dim light then glossy would be the way to go.

[Dalek]

I don't want my screen to be a mirror with constantly having to focus on a reflection and what's on screen.

Glossy is only great if you're sat in the dark with no light on getting eye strain.

It's sad that so many recent OLED monitors (QD-OLED especially) do not have a matte coating.

[Bobo]

When we game, we do it in a low light enviroment, glossy is better for that.

[pawel86ck]

The first LCD monitor I bought (in 2007) was the NEC 20WGX2Pro, which had an AS-IPS panel. It's contrast was very low (700:1), but the glossy finish transformed the perception of contrast dramatically when there was even a little bit of ambient light. The blacks looked perfect during the day, and the colours just popped. The contrast on my old glossy IPS LCD during the day didn't look much worse than my current gigabyte FO32U2 QD-OLED screen at night (or my legendary pansonic GT60 plasma prised for very good blacks) that's how impressive it was. When I used my glossy IPS monitor, I also had great blacks at night because I would always turn on a small light next to the monitor. I was absolutely blown away by my old glossy IPS monitor.

Many years later, I bought an LCD monitor with a matte finish without realising what the problem with that coating was. I immediately noticed that haze over the screen. The blacks didn't look as good during the day anymore, and the colours didn't stand out as much, even though the new panel itself was much better in every aspect.

RTINGS recently uploaded a video about raised blacks on matte-finish displays ("matte isnt always better: what our new reflections trst really show) and their photo comparison show what I saw. Matte fininish display reduce reflections that absorbed light spreads out across the entire screen, washing out the contrast and colours.

I think the semi-glossy finish on my QD-OLED is the best coating. Reflections are extremely dim, so they don't bother me at all, and yet the contrast is still perceived perfectly.

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[petight]

I don't know where the internet started to become obsessed with glossy displays, but it seems like it's gotten to echo chamber levels of reverb now. Glossy coating is only good in a dark environment, and even then you will see a reflecting of your face and environment because of the light coming from the screen. It works on phones because of how small they are but monitors are much larger and a purely glossy coating is a mirror. Have there been shit matte coatings? Absolutely. Is the answer glossy coatings? No. The answer is better, more diffuse and less intrusive matte coatings.