ajkidle;516712 Wrote: > Do I need to worry about having the display brightness set to the max > setting (4) on an SB3? Is this going to result in burn-in or premature > aging of the display?
Some people may tell you that it won't. But I have an SB2, with the same screen and I allowed it to set in the Date & Time screensaver for a number of months at maximum brightness and the pixels at the center of the display are noticeably dimmer than those toward the sides. Unfortunately, the choices for brightness settings don't quite align with my usage patterns. There are the following settings (note that 'Power Off' really means 'Standby', since the Squeezebox always remains powered on): * Power On Brightness. This is the setting used when the SB comes out of standby and when a user is actively using the remote to navigate menus or through the music library. I set this to the brightest setting for greatest visibility while doing something with the remote. * Idle Brightness. This is the setting used when a user is not actively using the remote. After a timeout period with no user input, the brightness shifts to this setting. Note that 'idle' is only in reference to user input activity, not whether music is playing. * Power Off Brightness. This is the setting used when the Squeezebox is in standby mode. My problem with this approach is that when music is playing I often want to read the Now Playing display. Which means a relatively bright setting, and (for me) brightest is best. But it also means that when the Squeezebox sits for 20+ hours each day not playing any music it will be sitting at this brightness level. Two less than ideal workarounds that I've found are: 1) Use the Brightness button on the remote to increase the brightness while listening to music and try to remember to set it back to a lower level when finished. 2) Set the Power Off Brightness to a low level and remember to power off the Squeezebox when not in use. This is difficult, as there's actually very little reason to ever power off the Squeezebox, especially if you have both the 'off' and 'stopped' screensavers set to the Date & Time screensaver. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75219 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
