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daves123
Joined: 16 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 10:47 pm Post subject: Best background colour to reduce wear on crt tubes |
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Just wondering what colour to set my htpc background to reduce wear on my pj tubes. Is black easier on the tubes?
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CRT_Ben
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, black is best.
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perisoft
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Location: Ithaca, NY
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I even go so far as to keep menu / text toward yellow/red rather than cyan/blue, since the red tube wears far less quickly than the blue. It's kinda hard to read pure red-on-black text, though! 
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daves123
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| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 9:45 am Post subject: |
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That's what I thought, then I was reading something about changing the bar colour from black to grey to avoid burn in. So I got a little confused.
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CRT_Ben
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| daves123 wrote: | | That's what I thought, then I was reading something about changing the bar colour from black to grey to avoid burn in. So I got a little confused. |
That's not to avoid burn in, it's to burn the tube equally between the active video and the masking bars so you don't see where the masking bars used to be.
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daves123
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| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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That's what I thought. But the article I was reading said to avoid burn in, so I thought i'd ask here for a little clarification.
Thanks for the help.
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Mark_A_W
Joined: 15 Mar 2006
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Location: Sunny Melbourne Australia
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| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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I run multi monitor so the "windows" stuff never gets on the projector.
And, for various reasons, I run the projector's 5 minute white warmup screen.
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atomiccow
Joined: 11 Jul 2009
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| Mark_A_W wrote: | I run multi monitor so the "windows" stuff never gets on the projector.
And, for various reasons, I run the projector's 5 minute white warmup screen. |
Wow. Never considered there would be no windows stuff up. Strong incentive for me to finally do the extra monitor.
I used to run the Sony white screen on my previous projector. I think it used to run ten minutes or more every time I turned it on.
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akajester
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a friend of mine did the same thing but made a vga terminator that tricks the computer into thinking it has a monitor on port 1. So windows would boot and everything would load in the background, then Meedios would load on port 2, therefore no windows ever made it to the projector. very cool.
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