Dell S2740L Removed glass facia to reduce reflections

[praeses]

I have been using a Dell S2740L for a few weeks now and it has many merits but there is one issue I have with it where it is far too reflective. There is a company that makes filters for that which I have not tried but instead I noticed just running my fingernail along the edge that the glass can be separated easily from the bezel underneath. After a couple minutes of fiddling with a razor blade as my fingernails aren't quite long enough, the glass came off fairly easily with some slight difficulty around the capacitive touch buttons in the lower right where the ribbon cable supporting them is glued to the glass, but not to the bezel. No damage was done, and it is pretty much reversible with some new silicon (in fact with mine I was able to temporarily stick it back on for testing. Behind the glass is pretty much a typical bezel monitor with a reflective screen (similar to most of the $100-150 LCDs).

I am not sure if the glass provides any useful filtering for our eyes but I notice it has a slight tint. At the very least it would look better to have the corner of glass with the button labels stuck back on the monitor. There are 7 round casting marks visible on the bezel that some people may not like as well. Here are a couple pictures for comparision with and without the glass.

With Glass:

Without Glass:

I do realize that the angle isn't exactly the same as the picture, but it is fairly close and when I put the glass back up I see about a 50% increase in the brightness of the reflections. Also with the glass I notice sort of two reflections, one from the screen, the other from the glass, which depending on the angle looks a bit blurry.

 

[newbcake]

I specifically registered on anandtech to ask this one question:
Seeing as you removed the glass from your Dell 2740, I'd like to know what is the "internal" bezel width now, especially the lower one? If you could make some measurements (or maybe take more pics), it'd be totally awesome!

I'm trying to build a triple display setup, with all 3 of them in portrait mode.

Thanks a lot!

 

[RobertLan]

I have been using a Dell S2740L for a few weeks now and it has many merits but there is one issue I have with it where it is far too reflective. There is a company that makes filters for that which I have not tried but instead I noticed just running my fingernail along the edge that the glass can be separated easily from the bezel underneath. After a couple minutes of fiddling with a razor blade as my fingernails aren't quite long enough, the glass came off fairly easily with some slight difficulty around the capacitive touch buttons in the lower right where the ribbon cable supporting them is glued to the glass, but not to the bezel. No damage was done, and it is pretty much reversible with some new silicon (in fact with mine I was able to temporarily stick it back on for testing. Behind the glass is pretty much a typical bezel monitor with a reflective screen (similar to most of the $100-150 LCDs).

I am not sure if the glass provides any useful filtering for our eyes but I notice it has a slight tint. At the very least it would look better to have the corner of glass with the button labels stuck back on the monitor. There are 7 round casting marks visible on the bezel that some people may not like as well. Here are a couple pictures for comparision with and without the glass.

With Glass:

Without Glass:

I do realize that the angle isn't exactly the same as the picture, but it is fairly close and when I put the glass back up I see about a 50% increase in the brightness of the reflections. Also with the glass I notice sort of two reflections, one from the screen, the other from the glass, which depending on the angle looks a bit blurry.

I realize this is old but how did you sort the on off button? My issue is the lower right glass cracked all the way up. I removed the glass now i have a bare board where the on off used to be. thanks