Dell Comfortview Plus - can it be disabled?

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Peat Moss

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Just been reading about how the newer Dell UltraSharps have a built-in blue light filter called comfortview plus. Apparently this is always on, and of course makes everything look yellowish. Not good for photo editing.

Has anyone found any way to disable this?
 
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nope. spend more money for a proper photo editing display.

"hey, as you may have found out, its not possible to turn comfortview off. i had to return dell products with a value of $20k because they all had comfortview and we need true colors to be displayed since we are in the editing/vfx business.
i had to put another $5k on top and got us lenovo hardware, which is working perfectly."
https://www.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/qndcwc/dell_monitors_deactivate_integrated_comfortview/
 
Peat Moss said:
Interesting. Here's another monitor I was looking at (HP Z24q G3) with always-on blue light filter. In the HP promo description it says:

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https://www.insight.com/en_US/shop/product/4Q8N4AA#ABA/HP+INC/4Q8N4AA#ABA/HP-Z24q-G3---LED-monitor---QHD---23-8----HDR/

I mean, that's not possible, is it? It has to affect color accuracy.
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I have a Dell U2723QE and it has ComfortViewPlus and they claim it doesn't compromise color just like HP's claim. I'm not editing photos but I haven't noticed any issues with the color or a yellow tint.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/del...3qe/apd/210-bdpf/monitors-monitor-accessories

ComfortView Plus—an always-on, built-in low blue light screen—reduces potentially harmful blue light emissions without compromising color.
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Is there a difference between Dell ComfortView and Dell ComfortView Plus, it sounds like they're doing something different between the two?
 
Peat Moss said:
Interesting. Here's another monitor I was looking at (HP Z24q G3) with always-on blue light filter. In the HP promo description it says:

I mean, that's not possible, is it? It has to affect color accuracy.
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So usually this is marketing kinda conflating things. When it comes to blue light there's two different things that people are mostly targeting today:

1) General blue-light level, as it relates to circadian rhythm and keeping you up at night. For this, the only solution would be to actually lower the level of blue light, which either requires lowering ALL light, or shifting the white point and making things yellow or red. That's what blue light modes on monitors do, is just reduce the blue channel output.

2) Blue light frequency. TUV has decided that light above 455nm is harmful and sets limits on it, so some monitors try to comply with that and design backlights that put the peak below that. It is still blue, just lower frequency blue, even frequencies down to around 500nm look pretty blue to us.

What you get then are displays that have lower frequency blue peaks, and thus adhere to the "Eyesafe" standard. Often those get marketed as having a "blue light filter". It's possible they do, in that they may have a filter that reduces the high frequency content but they don't reduce the overall level, they just have a lower frequency blue.
 
ND40oz said:
I have a Dell U2723QE and it has ComfortViewPlus and they claim it doesn't compromise color just like HP's claim. I'm not editing photos but I haven't noticed any issues with the color or a yellow tint.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/del...3qe/apd/210-bdpf/monitors-monitor-accessories



Is there a difference between Dell ComfortView and Dell ComfortView Plus, it sounds like they're doing something different between the two?
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Yeah, sorry...by Comfortview I meant Comfortview Plus. (I was just shortening it).
 
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