I miss degaussing screens. Ones with the button for that were great, and it was very satisfying to do.
I don’t miss the low resolution, the heat and the feeling of sunburn after looking into one for too long.
I don't know, I'm beginning to think modern LCDs are worse for the eyes because in the quest for more contrast they have become too bright to be healthy.
Maybe OLED will fix that. Whenever affordable OLED monitors show up...
I agree that screens are too bright. A part of my job is calibrating screens and the brightness they can achieve is alarming. Regulation in radiology requires a minimum luminance and the spec is vastly in excess of what I would use and far above what anyone sets when given the chance.
Wickedly high contrast ratios seem to be encouraged too and keeping the ratio down gets frowned upon. Some of the screens come out the box at close to 1000:1, which is too high but happens with a high luminance screen.
The first thing I usually do with a screen I use is dim it, and I long for iPad and iPhone screens that are dimmer. The lowest settings are too high.
High contrast is good; problem is on lcd displays you can only achieve it by having high brightness overall, because black isn't really black.
On CRTs you could set a black background, turn your brightness way down and happily code with enough contrast. Even with black on white text you could turn the brightness down somewhat because the black was... black.
Hopefully when OLED becomes usable for something between wall sized TVs and watches, this problem will be gone because there is no backlight so black is again black.
