ViewGuard Anti-Glare Review

[Anothercoilgun]

This was not a problem with the old laptop. Then after 2005 all the companies deliberately made these stupid idiot highly reflective screens that destroy viewing experience. All so that these anti glare products can be pushed on us.

[rohitmehandru]

@Anothercoilgun i agree that these glossy screens suck for work and general use outside, but they've been implemented for high contrast on screens for entertainments sake. before, people used to simply use laptops for work purposes. now you'll basically only find anti glare on business laptops like latitudes, precisions, and thinkpads. seems like people these days only use laptops for games, movies, and facebook

[IrresistiblyBetter]

All you've taught me from this is that protective films look like too much bother. I'm not sure whether it's because you're just generally a recipe for disaster or whether protective film is difficult to use but my preference is now on a matte screen as opposed to buying a film for a glossy screen.

[MegaRichie10]

excuse me but i have Q: does it protect my eyes. :-)

[ImahGoer]

Why the hell cut it in the first place ?

[Ranger2229]

This video should have been 1-2 minutes long

[Ranger2229]

Who gives a shit about unboxing? Just show the fucking screen idiot

[bati555]

MY REVIEW 4/5if they could make bubbles less of an issue and decreased the pixeling effect. I recently purchased the 20 inch anti-glare film for my 2009m monitor. The bubbles were very hard to get out. It cost around 30 dollars from their website free shipping and came in 3 days. Once I installed it, the glare was greatly reduced. The biggest issue was the tiny pixels that were very visible(and annoying) against white pages such as Google. However, this product IS worth the bubbles and pixels.

[TJwaffle911]

So was this a review of the useful properties of a screen protector, or was it a review of the unboxing and installation experience? Seriously, 7:30 until you got to the part people actually care about. Show us the product, not the packaging, not your face; product reviews are not about you, they are for comparing the performance aspects of different products.

[hotliplucy]

EPIC FAIL. Here's an idea, let's waste 8 minutes of our lives watching you unbox a screen protector you failed at installing. Doo da doo.

[DENS973]

LMAO... DID YOU CATCH THAT AT 6:30... ITS DJ WOZNIA....LOL. HE WAS SCRATCHIN' THAT WAS FUNNY THO.

[cabrownda1]

Hey uploader: ITS YOUTUBE, NOT HOLLYWOOD! 8 minutes of bla bla bla? You didn't even show the laptop with the filter on it!

[KatoTomohiro]

hide u fucking face loser and show the anti glare.

[mephesh]

My work laptop has a shiny screen and it is horrible to use. Make sure you buy a laptop with a matte screen surface. I plan to buy an anti glare screen protector.

[jjwoznia]

@mephesh Yeah it has made it so I can use my laptop outside. Worth the money for sure.

[Hannahtams]

Thanks, this was really useful.

[chinesecheeunit]

how does the color on the screen differ?

[jjwoznia]

@chinesecheeunit The colors seem like they did before the protector. I will say I think the protector is the reason I have a weird backlight "bleed" when I made the gaming videos. But to the human eye that isn't visible.

[robgoren]

Thanks for the vid. I'm trying to reduce the glare off my tm2. Hopefully, this will work.

[maidans]

Nice video with some useful tips - thanks. I would suggest that one thing you might try next time (if easy to do) is to remove the bezel from the screen. Then fix on the screen protector and then put your screen bezel back on. I have not done this but it may help get around the issue you had from cutting the screen protector by only a few millimeters on each side.

[shelbyfanman]

Price??? you douche??!!

[DJTEVAdotCOM]

i was gonna get this but found out HP already discontinued this in replace of the new 13.3 dm3 which i think passed the portable line of notebooks...12.1 is just perfect.

[Yellowknight888]

Why not just buy a netbook with matte screen and avoid all the trouble?

[jjwoznia]

Netbooks can't game or do CAD/3d Modeling, and the atoms don't have hardware virtualization like the Neos. Not to mention the netbooks only have low density screens, my DV2 is 1280x800.

[proxy5711]

@Yellowknight888 Because most laptops don't have matte screens. i can name maybe 3 models that have them, most of which wont be the average joes top choice for a laptop.

[jondeak]

your an idiot...you tell people to cut it in the beggining of your video and then towards the end you tell them not too.....what a waste of money

[shelbyfanman]

i reckon LOL

[doradus1990]

good video, im thinking of getting a viewguard screen protector, not for my HP though, but for my Eee pc, as i can barely use it outside due to the glossy screen :P

[jjwoznia]

Yeah it works pretty good. I would recommend it. Remember, you still have to not "try" to reflect the sun at you. That's a pretty intense fusion reaction in the sky. It tends to be very bright no matter what screen protector you have on. But I do a lot of work out in the sun with this.

[doradus1990]

haha yeah :P obviously i dont aim it at the sun, but on a bright sunny day i cant see the screen at all, its all the scenery behind me i can see, trees, cars, buildings, people, its a mess, this screen should make me see the screen much more :)

[jjwoznia]

It should for sure. My desk in my room at home is across from the window that faces the sun pretty much from lik 10 am to around 6 pm. I always have my blinds open. I play dark shadowy games all the time and there aren't any glare issues. This was the only screen protector I found for my HP DV2, but it was worth every penny. Even when I am working outside on the car or doing work in the grass at Uni, this let's you use your laptop like it is supposed to be used, as a portable computer.

[comcastchinomike]

thanks for you info. i already called hp and they gonna pick it up for a check up (~_^)

[comcastchinomike]

I just got my dv2 last week and i loved it. but there are several problems i dont know yours dv2 does the same. the lock slide on the battery is very loose and and the speakers seems only has sound on the left side idont know there only one speaker in there or what.

[jjwoznia]

The lock slide was a little loose, but once the better is in, it doesn't cause any problems.

As for the speaker, I'd say you might need to return/exchange it. I have two speakers and both work fine, sound like yours maybe faulty.