Computer Question for TV Guys

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Originally Posted by Scorpion8

Well, what I was looking for was a definitive technical answer that says "due to the high refresh rates, and changes in manufacturings <yada yada yada>...." that a screen saver for an LCD is needed or not. I know all the coloquial answers and I am well familiar with the screen saver and power saver settings, but so far nobody from the TV screen guild has chimed in to say if technology has rendered a screen saver any more than just purty pictures and waste of processing power. That's whay this was posted in the TV forum, and not the general discussion forums.

No TV guys out there?

Well, to answer the question directly, technology rendered the screensaver obsolete years ago when computers gained the ability to turn the screen power off. Before that, you were *supposed* to turn the brightness down, or shut the screen off when not using it. It's easy to forget. Changing the content displayed on the screen was something the computer *could* do to save the screen when it had no control of the monitor power.

Screen savers are only still around because some people like to look at them. As an early TV set enthusiast, displaying fish is something I am not really keen on doing.

John