Me eyes are killin me!

jackrussell007 · 10-02-2010 4:56pm #1

hi folks

this might be an odd one for ye.

I recently built myself a htpc and put ubuntu on it. i'm chuffed with it and have been watching movies and all that. I've also been doing a good share of net browsing and playing stuff like tetris on it. The thing is I find that my eyes are burning from it. They're fine if I'm just watching movies or other stuff, it just seems to be a problem when I'm using the pc side of it. does that make any sense at all?

I have a LG 40" LCD 720p. I've never found it tiresome watching TV before. I'm not using the TV any more these days than I would have been anyway so its definetly to do with the interent usage on it. I'm sitting reasonably close to it, I have no trouble reading it or anything like that, it;s crystal clear.....but my friggin eyes are killing me from it.

its bloody annoying, anyone else have any experience of this?

ta

jackrussell007 · 12-02-2010 1:23pm

nobody?

ffocused · 12-02-2010 6:26pm

It sounds like you are suffering from eye strain. You need to increase the text size on your screen to a more comfortable level. Play around with the settings to find a comfortable fit for you.

I use a 42" tv and have my web browser zoomed to 200% and windows text size set to 125%.

The Ritz · 12-02-2010 8:36pm

It's also possible that tv on a big screen has a changing degree of contrast but webpages like forums etc can be unformly bright, can become quite intense on a bigscreen.

Ritz

subway · 12-02-2010 10:19pm

could be a couple of things, i would imagine brightness plays a big part, especially if its dynamic as it can sort of flicker quite quickly.
the other is that a tv refresh rate could be lower than a pc.

lastly, using a large screen at a, relatively, low resolution can cause eye strain.
think about, you would run a 19" monitor at 1920x1200 (10:9 / 115 sq inch) yet you are running a 40" at 1366x768 (511sq inch)

the 19" has 20000 pixels per square inch, whereas the 40" has 1/10th of that at 2000 pixels per square inch

your eyes could be strained because of any of those

Wcool · 19-02-2010 12:43am

Seems to me that the activity is the cause.

TV-> no problem
Gaming, surfing-> eye strain

I'd say you concentrate too much during the latter and you don't BLINK.
That's why your eyes dry out and start hurting.

I have the same after a long day at work behind a LCD.

Only thing you can do is be aware of it and blink more, or take more breaks.

jackrussell007 · 19-02-2010 8:53am

I dunno Wcool, I spend all day behind an LCD in work, and would often go home and spend a couple of hours on the laptop while 'da wife' watches next top model followed by big brother:eek:. I've never had eye fatigue before.

subway raises a few good points I think regarding refresh rates and resolution. I changed the brightenss and resolution and even the zoom size of the browser. I think maybe the brightness might have a lot to do with it. the white background of a webpage is fairly glaring, I think that might be a lot of it.

thanks for the suggestions

Me eyes are killin me!

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