Reflections on your TV screen ruin any TV viewing experience. By examining the room lighting factors that can affect the quality of your TV viewing, you can optimize your situation so you don’t end up with a subpar experience.

Before we start lighting a room, you first need to understand how light reaches your eyes.

With TVs, you look directly at the light that the TV emits from the screen. The type of screen surface can affect how well images reach your eyes.

For example, the actual screen panel is preferable to an added glass layer in terms of reducing reflections. While an additional glass overlay can protect the panel from dust and smudges and is easier to clean, it does increase the sensitivity to light reflections. Specific LED/LCD TVs may have just the screen panel or an additional glass overlay, but plasma TVs typically have glass overlays over their screen panels, which are more reflective.