Why are screen makers not using invisible glass?

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Invisible glass is a layer added onto glass that reflects nearly no light. Yet we're still using matte coating. Why can't we have best of both worlds. With invisible glass we have no glare and have the picture quality of a gloss screen.

Is the company that makes the invisible glass coating not want to make money and sell this to screen makers?
 
Galvin said:
Invisible glass is a layer added onto glass that reflects nearly no light. Yet we're still using matte coating. Why can't we have best of both worlds. With invisible glass we have no glare and have the picture quality of a gloss screen.

Is the company that makes the invisible glass coating not want to make money and sell this to screen makers?
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All the pictures they show are of display cases or art frames. Maybe the heat and durability requirements for a display screen are too demanding for the coating.
 
There is no magic bullet. If a surface coating of any kind can diffuse light entering, then it does so exiting as well. A painting isn't a backlit piece of electronics like an LCD. All you need is the front light (reduced glare from the invisible glass) to ensure visibility of the painting behind the glass. With an LCD, you have light entering the front, but also light emitting from inside. invisible glass will affect this as well.
 
The best coatings so far are used in Televisons. Various Glossy+AR treatments.
Philips "Moth-Eye" filter comes to mind, was pretty good at cutting down reflections while preserving deep black levels. (unlike PDC)
Samsung higher end 2016 TV's with "Ultra Black" work in a very similar fashion but reviewers mentioned it is not quite as effective as the Philips solution.
 
Daniel_Chang said:
There is no magic bullet. If a surface coating of any kind can diffuse light entering, then it does so exiting as well. A painting isn't a backlit piece of electronics like an LCD. All you need is the front light (reduced glare from the invisible glass) to ensure visibility of the painting behind the glass. With an LCD, you have light entering the front, but also light emitting from inside. invisible glass will affect this as well.
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If light was prevented from going out, then light bouncing off the painting would get blocked. Well to prove this all someone really needs to do is put a plate of invisible glass in front of a TV or Monitor and see if it works or not. Or just shine a flash light thru the backside.
 
igluk said:
at cutting down reflections while preserving deep black levels. (unlike PDC)
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do people actually believe this.....

the thing in the second post is just talking about thin film ar coatings. not a new or unique technology. you can find it on eyeglasses, camera lenses, etc... iirc it's also on the ipad air 2 or somethinf.
PDC refers to exactly the same thing, though "pdc" is just an acronym for the particular deposition technique.
 
Galvin said:
Invisible glass is a layer added onto glass that reflects nearly no light. Yet we're still using matte coating. Why can't we have best of both worlds. With invisible glass we have no glare and have the picture quality of a gloss screen.

Is the company that makes the invisible glass coating not want to make money and sell this to screen makers?
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Probably like everything else.. Cost?
 
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