I heard that modern monitors avoided burn in, but I now started working for a school district that seems to have a habit of leaving thier machines on, and also having the same detailed background for all the machines, I have worked on about 1300 machines for them so far, and I would say about 50% of them are about 5 years old dell machines with the 17" dell monitor with the old desktop imaged burned in, places. maybe they have made advances since these monitors were made (jan 1999 by the sticker), but its a valid concern for me on anything phosphur screens,
On the Other Han, I have monitors of the same age that have regular use, and even have had a mythbox that I leave on the menu for days on the time before I remember turn off, that has been running for about 18 months without any signs of burn. I would say burn probably doesnt happen in the space of a few days, but more in the years. so change your myth theme occasionally and use it on different screens, and turn it off when its not in use for long periods and it might just help, unless your FE is supremely under powered you might even think about changing desktop resolution, and even the verticle and horizontal position if you can to have the image placed on different parts of the tube Just a few thoughts On 8/8/05, Kevin Kuphal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > travis wrote: > > >On 8/8/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>------------------------------ > >> > >>Message: 25 > >>Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 13:52:12 -0500 > >>From: Kevin Kuphal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] burn-in. Should I be worried? > >>To: Discussion about mythtv <[email protected]> > >>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >> > >>Jesse Guardiani wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Hello, > >>> > >>>I have a "normal" NTSC TV. Medium quality and nothing fancy. > >>>Should I be worried about burn-in? > >>> > >>> > >>Maybe you should turn off your TV when you're not using it. :) > >> > >>Kevin > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > >If they are talking about having a lower-quality TV, chances are they > >may not have a receiver/speakers/etc. and turning off the TV will turn > >off the music as well. > > > > > > > Yes, but MythMusic has full screen visualizations and can blank the > screen (IIRC) so there isn't much needed there to avoid burn-in if it is > indeed a concern. > > Kevin > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > -- - I have GMAIL Invites Mail me directly for one _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
