Consumers Are Idiots
“people are idiots. Put another way, people like shiny things. When the glossy screens first started to appear in Best Buy and CompUSA, the contrast with their non-glossy brethren was striking. Walking into the laptop aisle, your eye was immediately drawn to the glossy displays. Aside from the shine, there’s also a perceptible difference in sharpness and color saturation on glossy screens. These things stand out.”
“You can take out a video essentials DVD and “prove” that one TV has better objective picture quality than another, and people will still insist that you’re wrong and proceed to buy the brighter TV instead.”
Lin Ru Ben said,
May 21, 2006 @ 4:39pm
If you read the comments, some of them state that high-gloss actually does allow a more clear picture.
One of the comments includes this website discussing the different types of LCD screens.
http://www.screentekinc.com/pixelbright-lcds.shtml
Of course the webpage and the comments may have been created by idiots, but at least the webpage was made by a convincing idiot.