Why they still make matte coatings on modern displays

[Supermodel_Evelynn]

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.

This is one of the most IGNORANT and disgusting things I have ever seen anyone post in my life and I have seen all sorts of disgusting hateful things on the internet.

What on earth will a glossy coating ONTOP a matte possibly do? it has NO practical value

The purpose of a glossy coating is so the image being produced by the monitor is true and clean, a matte coating diffuses ambient light creating a nasty haze across the screen, it also produces this nasty sparkle, oily look like someone smeared Vaseline and sh!t across the screen.

You putting a glossy coating over a matte is like throwing a glass of water ontop the dog poop in your living room and leaving it there hoping that fixes the issue.

Matte coatings are some of the nastiest things ever made in the tech world there is a reason every Apple device under the sun uses Glossy Coating because Apple engineers know what they are doing and they aren't in the business of selling junk.

Glossy coating is vastly superior to all this nasty Matte garbage. This is the reason I sold my XG2431 Blur Buster monitor in favor of a Asus XG27AQDMG Glossy OLED

BUT Rejoice ACER is releasing the Predator 32" 5K GLOSSY Gaming monitor 330HZ G-Sync Pulsar and yes it is the FIRST gaming monitor in the world with true gloss coating./

[pawel86ck]

Is the answer glossy coatings? No. The answer is better, more diffuse and less intrusive matte coatings.

A matte finish reduces the clarity of reflections, but the absorbed light is dispersed across the screen instead of being reflected, which is also a problem. Dispersed light creates a fog across the entire screen (see photos in the attachment), and personally, I find that more intrusive than sharp reflections.

The answer lies in the semi-glossy coating. My QD-OLED has semi glossy finish and as long as I don't place the monitor facing the window, reflections are barely visible and the picture isn't covered in fog.

[kyube]

This is one of the most IGNORANT and disgusting things I have ever seen anyone post in my life and I have seen all sorts of disgusting hateful things on the internet.

What on earth will a glossy coating ONTOP a matte possibly do? it has NO practical value

The purpose of a glossy coating is so the image being produced by the monitor is true and clean, a matte coating diffuses ambient light creating a nasty haze across the screen, it also produces this nasty sparkle, oily look like someone smeared Vaseline and sh!t across the screen.

You putting a glossy coating over a matte is like throwing a glass of water ontop the dog poop in your living room and leaving it there hoping that fixes the issue.

I think you should refrain from confidently talking about topics you clearly do not have information on or lack experience in.
It makes reading this paragraph you've written look like a child throwing a tantrum.

Can you explain to me the concept of "why" matte coatings appear the way they are to our eyes?
Do you understand what the terms "glossy", "matte", "semi-matte" even mean?

I talked to a user, which had on-hands experience with this conversion process.
It looks identical to any other stock "glossy" screen.

In fact, that's what Dough (former EVE) has done with their IPS monitor. They've applied a "screen protector"-like coating to fill out the microscopic gaps of the stock matte filter to achieve the glossy finish. This boosted the appearance of overall sharpness & contrast.

Here are some images, to give you a perception of how it looks like:




Source: @pspboy17 from "Monitors Enthusiast" discord
A product which he used for his laptop: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FCNLTH1

In fact, here's a ASUS XG27AQDMG (left photo) vs (matte ootb) Acer display with screen protector (right photo) comparison image

[Supermodel_Evelynn]

Eve spectrum now Dough, are known SCAMMERS in the industry, stole money from people, never shipped their monitors and then went onto take matte monitors and apply a glossy coating over it which was an outright SCAM.

I would have to see that thing in person with max brightness against a white background to determine if that is even worth doing.

Putting a clear coating over a matte is still INFERIOR to an actual glossy coating and you know it to be true.

This is NOT a solution to this nasty matte issue, manufacturers need to start shipping more monitors with true gloss coating right out of the box, there is a reason Apple only uses glossy doesn't use this nasty ass matte sh!t

You said you spoke with a user (likely ignorant) who told you the experience was just as good as a real glossy, you want to know something about those people who think this? they also cannot see above 30HZ.

The only other monitor I am interested in at this point is the new True Gloss Black ASUS OLED which ASUS says comes with 100% glossy coating

[Supermodel_Evelynn]

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.

This is an absolute LIE, a quick glance at any QD-OLED coating reveals that glossy coating actually has less reflection than matte even rtings confirms this with their direct and indirect rating benchmark.

The idea that matte has less reflection than glossy is a old nasty lie handed down by flat earth retards who are ignorant of science.

What matte " Vaseline smeared with dog shit" does to "reduce" reflection is it spreads the reflection across the entire screen making everything hazy and nasty to give the illusion that there is no reflection.

The reason Apple uses glossy coating on everyone of their device is because Apple prides themselves in science and superiority.

[betonKruglosuTotchno]

The reason Apple uses glossy coating on everyone of their device is because Apple prides themselves in science and superiority.

Apple has clearly fallen then.
https://www.rtings.com/laptop/learn/apple-nano-texture

This is an absolute LIE, a quick glance at any QD-OLED coating reveals

There is no "qd oled coating" because outer layer (which is most significant in how display reflects light) has nothing to do with emitting material.
If you know how this treatment of glossy surface is called which reduces reflections is called you should name it because it is new and it did not exist for decades in consumer monitors, all glossy monitors (except some CRTs ??) were always perfect mirrors until recently, and even now those less reflecting glossy surfaces are mostly an exception.

What matte " Vaseline smeared with dog shit" does to "reduce" reflection is it spreads the reflection across the entire screen making everything hazy and nasty to give the illusion that there is no reflection.

Unfortunately human eye cares not only about presence of reflection but also how it looks. For a lot of people and a lot of viewing conditions diffused reflection is clearly different from mirror reflection.

[betonKruglosuTotchno]

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

Is it really "quality matte" or was it just the focusing not at the grain but at the pixels behind it?

[Dalek]

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.

This.

I don't get the whinging behind matte coating. No one cared about glossy coatings or even mentioned it in general until OLED arrived

Having used CRTs decades ago (which were glossy) and a glossy LCD a few times back in 2013, I wanted to completely avoid glossy and still do.

Not once have I ever thought: "I wish this screen was glossy."

Glossy only works in dark and dimly lit environments, aka people that don't get any sunlight in their room and keep their ceiling room light off at night. I never use my monitor in the dark because that just results in eyestrain.

For those of us that do open the blinds/curtains will just get a distracting mirror constantly be shown, especially on darker colours. Not to mention, most people will be stuck with the thought of "what if this glossy monitor doesn't work well in my room/environment?"

Of course, I think there should be a choice of glossy and matte for various monitors, but at the end of the day matte always wins in practically every environment.

[RealNC]

I used glossy in the CRT days, then went matte for LCDs, then my first OLED is glossy again.

I'd say glossy is overall better. Image clarity is just better on it. The reflections don't bother me. They never did on the CRTs, and they don't on the OLED. And it's not even a good glossy coating either. It's more mirror-like than the best glossy coatings out there. But it's still fine.

It's one of those things where you first need to try it and see if it personally bothers you or not.

[Supermodel_Evelynn]

It is not an opinion but a scientific fact that GLOSSY coating is vastly superior than Matte and for obvious reasons the light coming out through a glossy (clear) coating means the image is being displayed perfectly.
With matte which is basically taking a nail file and scraping up a glossy the light coming through the screen gets distorted, it's like purposely scraping up your good eyewear just so you could reduce the harshness of the sunlight outside.

It is also similar to religion in a sane world, nobody would just willingly believe something unless it is backed by science.
And this is what the matte vs glossy debate is about, people who believe matte is superior are like religious zealots, they do not care about facts or science.

Let us say we go with the argument that people are concerned about reflections, well it's easier for the manufacturer to just include a protective matte peel on the screen, this way if you want matte you can just leave on the peel like most people tend to do with new displays for some reason, or you can just peel off the Vaseline smeared pig shit (matte coat) and have a fantastic monitor.

This is why I am an advocate for CRT, with glass you never have to worry about these matte coating you could peel it off if need, you can't do that with modern LCD as it damages the polarizer.
This is also why I wish Apple would just release an affordable 27" retina monitor that is about 120HZ cause all apple products are glossy.

The other thing, these QD-OLED do NOT come with real glossy coating it has an obvious subtle blur to it, but it's something I can support because the image being produce is very clear and it eliminates significant reflections at the same time, something a pure glossy may not accomplish, however with that said the most magnificent gloss displays were from an old Apple Cinema display 27" 1440p monitor I had back in 2010 that monitor was absolutely amazing I would easily prefer it over even a 5K monitor with matte because of how clear that gloss coating was.

The truly incredible thing about QD-OLED glossy coating is it makes reflection appear dark I don't know how it does this, it keeps the reflection crisp which is how it should be but it turns down the brightness of the reflection which is absolutely incredible another coating that does this is found in the LG OLED True black True glossy Monitors or the LG OLED TV series, it's magic by any other name.