The two professional monitors I use at home are hitting 9 years old. (from late 1997) The difference here is professional versus home office grade. They use higher quality parts, and 'trinitron' style tubes. No, screen savers will make a very negligible difference. It's very difficult to burn-in monitors but it's still possible. This is the entire premise of screen savers. What often happens with CRTs is either: the guns get out of alignment (causes blurriness), or the monitor gets dim or dark, or the power supply dies, or the controller board dies. My professional monitors have adjustments for the gun alignment (called convergence) so the first issue isn't a problem.
Typically home office grade CRT monitors last about 5 to 6 years. They last about 4 to 5 when used heavily in an office or commercially. (12+ hours a day) Pretty much the only problem you can have with LCD is lamp failure, which happens after a certain number of hours. (just like a light bulb burning out) --- In [email protected], "Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thomas, > > > Monitors rating on 'wear and tear' is hours operating, so this does > > reduce it. > > But as I said, my monitors, all but one, have operated for many years. The > one did suffer from reduced emission, it was a CRT. And I don't use a screen > saver or any kind of screen dimmer. > > Jim > If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for using A-1 Computer Tech Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
