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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!fuug!ichaos!jlaiho
- From: jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi (Juha Laiho)
- Subject: Re: Effects of power-cycl
- Organization: NullNet r.y.
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 21:32:55 GMT
- Message-ID: <Bu896w.I09@ichaos.nullnet.fi>
- References: <1992Sep06.161317.27531@rose.com>
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- In article <1992Sep06.161317.27531@rose.com> bohdan.kiszczuk@rose.com (bohdan kiszczuk) writes:
- >
- >If you use a color monitor, screen blankers do not extend the life of
- >the CRT. On mono monitors their is something called screen burn that
- >does not happen on color monitors.
-
- I'd like to correct you on this. Screen burn happens on color monitors, too.
- The process is just very much slower than in mono monitors, so you may not
- have seen it yet. Also, people w color monitors tend to run much bigger variety
- of sw than ppl w mono monitors. Thus there's no single picture to burn itself
- to the crt, and the crt wears off more evenly.
-
- ..Wolf
-