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by Melatonic 9 days ago
Are you sure you're just not comparing crappy screens (what you experience as "matte") with better ones ?
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Yes, unless you wanna go down the line of "well actually Apple screens are not that good".

This is a semi-sponsored video from a scammy company that makes glossy displays, so you might want to take it with a grain of salt, but it talks about a real effect with (most, again, Apple's etching is _much_ better, but still _noticeable to me_) matte coatings: https://youtu.be/3mTV1TOblbA?t=124

There are people taking super-zoomed-in photos of their monitors all over reddit too, so you can judge how much haze/blurriness they add to the image:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ultrawidemasterrace/comments/18sb63... https://www.reddit.com/r/OLED_Gaming/comments/1jf2u54/the_di...