I have 24" widescreen lcd monitor (not the most expensive) and it has gotten in my eyes but I got used to it but now I noticed that I had mostly dynamic contrast on and it is actually pretty much too bright. I've read that more darker is more pleasant for your eyes in the long run? Is that true?
Also, should contrast be higher or brightness?
I have pretty crappy lighting on evenings (it's a dark world we live in), what do you use? Do you have different settings for browsing the net and playing games.. Usually games nowadays lack many things but they have gamma sliders..

So.. Are you happy with your monitor settings or not?
Do you have any good guide for me?
I know lagom site.. Well I don't about that viewing angle either.. I don't know how it should look.

Other than becoming blind later in your life, I don't think you have anything to worry about.

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/gaming_makes_you_blind_you_know/page1

Infact that's one thing I care about. =P

Have you tried f.lux? It will adjust the color temperature of the monitor so it won't be so bright at night.

That's fear mongering. The radiation from older monitors was something that could reasonably be expected to damage the eyes, but the newer monitors aren't.

It's highly unlikely that any possible damage from sitting in doors looking at a monitor is anywhere near as damaging as standing outside being exposed to UV rays.

The link between age related vision impairment and monitors is largely a matter of spending all that time looking at a screen that's close up and not varying the distance at which you're looking at things. The human eye has to change shape to focus and there are muscles involved with that to atrophy.

I have not.

Edit: but I will now (at some point). you know I switched from vga-dvi-cable to hdmi to some while a go and I seem to be unable to use color options in my monitor after that.

Some say that whatever your monitor is (in size) it's about arm lenght but some say that's totally wrong and say as far as can you possibly be.

I would think that it's when you see fine without making an really effort but that's why i'm asking perhaps I got used to totally wrong settings. Isn't gog page quite hard when adjusting contrast and brightness also this page has pretty small text so when you look at some other page and thing "hahah, it seems to be decent then you switch to gog-page you see barely nothing. What a weird application.. it installed to start with windows? I don't remember it asking also doesn't it make stuff a bit brownish. =P

Perhaps I should fiddle more with the sliders.

Edit: how in the hell it knows when there is sunset.. In 22 minutes.. Still could be totally right.

Edit2: and then I calibrated it.. it already went to after sunset. it seems to be in finland indeed but still.. Freakishly hightech invasion application.

Edit3: needs some tweaking to see what's best for day and for night but I don't know I kinda like it.

I don't know whom you've been talking to, so I'm not sure if this applies, but anybody that was using CRT monitors regularly before switching to LCDs and LEDs is probably still thinking about the older recommendations based upon the very real and definitely damaging cathode rays being shot into your eyeballs. Modern monitors pretty much just shoot photons that the eyes shouldn't have too much trouble with.

AFAIK, there isn't really a minimum focusing distance for the eye, just as long as it's comfortable. The longer distances were usually a matter of radiation avoidance.

It's a really good idea (tm) to go outside or look out a window for a few minutes every hour to help with the eye strain. Looking at my monitor right now, it's starting to get a bit blurry, so I'll probably turn the computer off for a bit and go outside when it gets light.

These sorts of things are always hard to know because the technology is so new and there haven't been any longitudinal studies looking into this specific issue. I wouldn't personally worry too much about it as it's rather unlikely. Unless you have a substantially brighter than normal monitor.

That setting is bullshit.
I turned it all the way up and my monitor is still an idiot.

I knew pets took after their owners, didn't know that applied to monitors as well...

There must be a happy medium. Which of cource differ a bit how sharp is your vision and stuff..

Also about focus.. Ariana Grande mention had to happen. ^^

I look a lot towards the screen and I'm not happy about the outcome. Also I haven't actually really kept that monitor in front of my face and some smaller texts are a bit hard to read. Maybe everything is wrong even my sitting posture although that's better now I don't lean forward and I kinda try to have a good posture.

I just noticed that my eyes are more tired than I'd them like to be. Also I got irritated (scared) because I just got stye in my eye and even if it is not related it got me thinking about those kinda things.

you know.. Older you get healthier you wanna be. =P

Go.. outside..? I'm working on that. =D

Hey, I highly recommend using this. I use it to darken my monitor during nights. It does wonders for your eyes.

In that case use your computer with only one eye open, then at least you have one good eye later in your life. You don't need depth perception (both eyes) for looking at a flat monitor anyway, so one eye is enough. Good to know you are a licensed eye specialist so you must obviously know what you are talking about. You should go set these quacks posing as "doctors" straight then.

http://www.pecaa.com/high-energy-visible-light-potential-ocular-damage/

https://www.macular.org/ultra-violet-and-blue-light I guess that's why eye doctors tell people to use UV-blocking sun glasses on a sunny weather. And lately, HEV-filtering glasses too. Also taking into account that people don't stare straight at the sun anyway, but stare at monitors pretty close for several hours per day.

We'll see in a few decades I guess (unless we have aggressive macular degeneration of course)...

I always start by first turning off any pompously named features that imply a vague improvement or a specific tweak and look for a neutral setting in those that don't just turn off. Most of them are just distortions.

To figure out good settings for brightness and contrast, I first display a test picture with dark shades of grey on black, and see how much I can turn down brightness without them disappearing. After this a test picture with bright shades on white, and turn up the contrast without losing them. Works for me.

What is your test picture.. I hope it's porn.. i mean I hope that I can see many contrasts between porn. =P

Joke is a joke but I'm really asking.

Edit1: also that flux application has been on and I came home and it's not totally bad. It's not bright but I almost see stuff.