On 04/04/2016 08:46 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 04/04/2016 09:30 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Monday, 2016-04-04 at 15:10 +0200, gumb wrote:
I bought a new Dell S2240T touchscreen monitor for my parents a while ago, and when reading through the manual, it recommends using a screen saver so as not to let an image imprint itself over time. This surprised me and I wonder if it's really true or just some relic of antiquated manuals which has somehow made its way into their current documentation. I read the same in one or two TV sets manuals, yes. I don't know how true it is. The 'classical' justification was cathode ray tube 'burn-in. So what happens now when we have LEDS rather than CRT? That justification doesn't make sense any more.
Is there something about burning out LED clusters? I doubt it; how will they get burnt out displaying a static image, much as the 'electronic photo frames' do, rather than being in continuous use with an animated display .... like a screen saver?
There's a lot of antiquated use in UI, certainly in the terminology. The "Don;'t touch that dial!" in the days of using a IR remote; we 'dial' the phone using push-buttons. We say something is 'on the frizz'; we refer to the 'icebox'.
So what, exactly, are we *saving* with a screen-saver when the 'screen' is an array of LEDS?
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