Is "brightview" coating good for outdoors usage?

[nexialist]

My new HP ZV6000 looks poor outside.......lots of glare and not bright enough.

This is sitting outside under a well shaded canopy under the midday sun. The light from the sides of the canopy causes glare and overpowers the picture.

I got it from Tech Depot and paid for Brightview but am not sure it has the coating. It does not say "brightview". Is the appearance different from a regular screen.

Are notebooks not meant for outdoor usage?

Dan

 

[Tostada]

Brightview is what HP calls the really shiny screens that give you a lot of glare. It looks really nice normally, but it's not good for outdoors.

Notebooks without the Brightview/Ultrabright/transflective/whatever screens are a little better outside, but honestly, with or without shade do you really expect any screen to look good in the midday sun?

 

[HomeAppraiser]

From side by side comparison in Best Buy, the Briteview gives you a much greater horizontal viewing angle than non Briteview, great for family dvd viewing. Of course they wouldn't let me take it outside I just ordered mine from Office Depot so I won't have it in hand for 10 days and will update at that time.

 

[ai42]

BriteView is what HP calls MVA, Sony calls it X-Brite, Dell calls it TrueLife. MVA (which is what it really is) is basically just like films covering the TFT and backlight that filter out cleaner colors and wider viewing angles unfortunetly it is very bad in sunlight due to glare.

BTW from what Tostada said MVA is NOT transreflective! Transreflective are screens that take in sunlight and reflect it back through the TFT which is ideal for outdoor use, AFAIK Transreflective and MVA are not compatable with each other. And very few laptops use transreflective screens.