I've had that problem recently with alarm clocks. My old one with
the red LEDs died, so I had to go shopping for a new one. I couldn't
get one like the previous one, and I went through *three* that were
too bright to sleep facing the clock (which is the only side I can
regularly fall asleep on), because they had glowing screens even when
put on "dim". The first one got returned, the second became a new
clock for the bathroom, and I finally gave up and lost an hour or
more of sleep a night for a couple weeks until I managed to get used
to it.
Technological progress positively sucks some times. I'm sure the
glowing screens are touted as a "feature", too. Rrrr.
On Oct 12, 2007, at 9:36 AM, Ty Hatch wrote:
> --Lights on the monitor: My wife and I usually have one on all night,
> and those little volume and power lights are so bright we have had to
> cover them up, even then they were still almost too bright. It would
> be better to make it very clear what the channel is and use some sort
> of hardware indicator other than light to indicate volume that is
> easily understandable from a distance. That or put a dimmer or off
> switch on the lights for nighttime use. (It's also the case on the
> one in my son's room, the light's woken him a couple of times--it's
> the brightest thing in the room. A glowing green something. Who's
> gonna want to sleep when they can examine that?)
-- Jim Drew
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