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- From: ctt31684@dcl-nxt12 (Ching Te Tai)
- Subject: Re: How to preserve your HiTech! (Re: LCD wear.)
- References: <1jhpmqINNqfb@violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk> <1993Jan24.200424.19758@husc3.harvard.edu> <C1EwqG.G7C@panix.com> <1993Jan25.191027.19789@husc3.harvard.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:31:13 GMT
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- jiu1@husc11.harvard.edu (Haibin Jiu) writes:
-
- >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
-
- I don't think there'll be any additional wear on the LCD screen regardless
- of black-on-white, etc. since a black pixel is just twisting the lattice
- structure in a different way than white. Of course, the best way to preserve
- things is not to turn it on at all.
-
- -Ching
-