Recent content by taliosfalcon

We have turned all the dimming options off in the desktop power settings, dynamic contrast is different, not related to the dimming options which use the external sensors and impossible to turn off. I have another thread going @ the official MS support forums where a rep has confirmed it is a...

I have adaptive brightness off in power options, the brightness still changes on mine :(

My phone has a terrible camera so it isn't crystal clear, but here's a video of the dynamic contrast fail microsoft seems to have built into the surface, when i bring up the task bar in IE the entire screen brightens as the other tabs make it brighter than the rest of the screen, when i remove...

Just checking what other people are getting for battery life/what optimizations they've made to it. All the reviews were going on about how good it was but my experience has been...differing. The battery life is acceptable if it's just sitting watching videos, but the idle drain seems to be...

I'm leaning towards returning it, I like most other things about it but the dynamic brightness screen flicker is driving me nuts and I can't stand it. (this is different from the automatic brightness you can turn off)

I think you may be on to something. I've done some more testing and its as if the screen has dynamic contrast turned on (when displaying something with brighter colors the entire screens brightness turns up, when displaying a mostly dark scene the backlight gets turned on) I can be watching...

We have three in the office @ work now, they all do it, with auto brightness turned off so its not that. I agree it's incredibly annoying.