LCD Glare - Tint on screen

**T & T** · 02-15-2006, 09:57 PM

Have a 7" LCD Touch screen with really bad day-vision....

Has anyone tinted the touch-screen? Yea, applied the tint to the outside of the Touch-Screen?
If so, what were the results?

I searched and didn't really come up with any answers to this question.

Thanks

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**Escalade182** · 02-15-2006, 10:41 PM

umm....so you want to tint it...to increase visibility?....right....

**Bugbyte** · 02-15-2006, 10:50 PM

Try a search using terms "glare".

Tinting your windows supposedly helps.

**Escalade182** · 02-15-2006, 11:07 PM

Originally Posted by Bugbyte

Try a search using terms "glare".

Tinting your windows supposedly helps.

but he's suggesting actualy tinting the lcd/(or maybe he means)touch overlay

**dmcdlrn** · 02-15-2006, 11:20 PM

ya, tinting is kinda backwards of what we are trying to accomplish around here... but if you are so inclined... I would go pick up some of that static tint... but seems like a bad idea to me.

**T & T** · 02-15-2006, 11:34 PM

No, if you type "glare" you'd see that part of the problem with glare is the reflection through the touch-screen overlay. I am not refering to tinting the windows, but tinting the outside of the touch screen (the plastic screen over the LCD).

Putting tint on the outside would not prevent the shiny surface from reflecting, but hypothetically would keep the ambient light from bouncing on the LCD and back through the touch screen.
Sounds like a bad idea initially, but in theory it may work. Wondering what were the results from the people who actually tried it.

Thanks

**sebberry** · 02-16-2006, 03:11 AM

Didn't someone on this site install some 3M film that made the screen brighter? I believe he installed it right into the LCD panel itself.

**dmcdlrn** · 02-16-2006, 08:33 AM

I know there are overlays that will help, but they are polorizing filters I think. Polorizing filters would be good, but they work by lining up the waves of light so that glares cancel each other out or something like that... I'm not a video guy. The problem is that if you line up all the light so there is no glare.. if you move left, right, up and down like when sitting in a car it will get shiney and not shiney...course there may be a workaround for this, but I don't know what it is again, I'm an audio guy not a video guy.

Putting tint would have negative affects unless its mirror tint.. but that would be worse.

Regular tint blocks ambient light traveling through... in or out... so you will have an even amount of light drop in and out. The mirror tint is alittle different... it will block alot more incoming light which would help keep the reflections down, but basically all it does is change your mirror like touch panel into a mirror like touch panel with a mirror on it.