I have a used SB1 which has the text "Problem! ..." burnt in by its previous owner. It must have been sitting with an error message for days, and the bad thing is that this screen is static and always displayed at full brightness.
Now when it comes to display something that starts with a "P", the first letter is barely visible. :( As is the right arrow symbol in the bottom right corner. toby10;516732 Wrote: > Well, when people asked this question two years ago the typical answer > was: > "the SB3's VFD display has a half life of 100,000 hours, so if you used > the SB3 screen at full brightness, 24/7, for 11 years straight, your SB3 > screen would be half as bright as the day you bought it". This would be true if you had the entire display lit all the time. Unfortunately this is not the case, the pixels wear out differently according to their use. So you have some pixels that are still like new, while others have already significantly faded, which is much more irritating than a screen that has become less bright as a whole. A "clock screensaver", for example, is actually an oxymoron. It is all but a screen -saver-, it is more of a screen -destroyer- since it stresses a small number of pixels all the time. A scrolling display or one that switches between different screens should cause less damage. The most efficient way to save a screen, however, is still to set its brightness to zero. -- usch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75219 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
