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- Subject: Re: LCD wear.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.191027.19789@husc3.harvard.edu>
- From: jiu1@husc11.harvard.edu (Haibin Jiu)
- Date: 25 Jan 93 19:10:26 EST
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- In article <C1EwqG.G7C@panix.com> schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan24.200424.19758@husc3.harvard.edu> jiu1@husc11.harvard.edu (Haibin Jiu) writes:
- >>
- >>And I too heard someone mention that Windows in the normal mode
- >>puts extensive wear on the screen. But why?
- >
- >
- >There is no wear, regardless of the color combination you choose.
- >This is urban myth, not supported by the physics of the way these displays
- >work.
-
- Well I think I answered my own question in a later post to the original
- question. By definition there is wear on the LCD display every time you
- use it, since its natural state is simply "off." And when you apply an
- electric current to change it, wear occurs. The same goes with CRTs
- since the screen surface is constantly bombarded by high speed electrons,
- although most recent CRT screens wear off very slowly, over a long
- period of time.
-
- HBJ
-