Massive eye strain headaches

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Is this a thing with modern TVs?

It's taken some time but I've narrowed it down fairly successfully to my TV, the default backlight setting is 20 out of 20, I've turned it down to 8 and the eye strain has stopped.

It was pretty severe, almost debilitating, I could wake up in the morning and barely open my eyes for the first hour and had like a migraine feeling behind my eyes all day, since I've altered the settings I haven't had one.

Just wondered if anyone else suffered with this and if there's other things I can try for other screens and monitors?
 
No I don't work on a PC.

I literally have no vision problems and never have, until I bought and started watching this TV. I wear anti glare glasses for driving long distances in the dark and that's about it.
 
I'll look into it, yeah it's a smart TV though not connected to a disc player of any kind so I'll look for something on the net.

TBH all I did was turn the backlight down as far as I could before I thought it started looking dim (in my opinion anyway, others may find it too dim).

I have to do the same with mobile phones and tablets etc, not because they give me headaches but because they just look too bright. My PC monitor shipped at something like 80/100 brightness, I've turned it down to 30 and it can probably go some more.
 
Yep I'd already turned a load of crap off, I haven't messed with the other picture settings yet as I'm not sure it's that bad other than being overly bright.

Good news is after turning it down to 8/20 I watched the whole season of Black Mirror yesterday and had zero eye issues this morning. Will search the model and look for some more settings to play with.

Glad it's not just me/my eyes though, that is a relief.
 
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