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- From: eric@tvnews.tv.tek.com (Eric F. Dorondo)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Effects of power-cycl
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.045901.10783@tvnews.tv.tek.com>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 04:59:01 GMT
- References: <1992Sep06.161317.27531@rose.com> <Bu896w.I09@ichaos.nullnet.fi>
- Organization: Tektronix TV Measurement Systems, Beaverton, OR
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- In article <Bu896w.I09@ichaos.nullnet.fi> jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi (Juha Laiho) writes:
- >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
-
-
- I work in an area where VGA monitors are on 24 hrs a day 365 days a year with
- the exact same screen, these are test sites for the instrument we manufacture
- in the QC area. For the record, these are NEC multisync color monitors and
- the screens are definitely burned in, I hate to see abuse of such a cool and
- beautiful monitor but thats the way it goes, so yes, they do suffer phosfor
- burn.
-
- -eric
-