[mythtv-users] burn-in. Should I be worried? - Dev Idea?

[David Maher]

I've always thought that the automatic screen saver on XBMC was really
good. It dims the screen image down to about 10% of normal brightness,
when there is nothing happening on screen. I'd like to know how to get
Myth to do this, I'm a bit worried about the long term effects on my
plasma screen, when kids leave the main Gant screen on for hours on end

Cheers
David M
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 18:41 -0500, Gavin Haslett wrote:
> Pausing live TV isn't an issue anyways, is it? I was under the impression that the pausing would only continue until the ring-buffer looped... therefore at PVR-250 rates of about 1.2Gb per hour, over a 3Gb ring buffer I couldn't pause it more than about 2.5 hours... not enough time to burn a TV.
>  
> Oh, and in answer to your questions directly, I really don't like (2). I leave my Mythbox on TV overnight as I often start transcode schedules before I go to bed... this frees up my CPU cycles for transcoding and commflagging. I also tend to run mkmovie or nuvexport jobs for the same reason at night. Jumping to live TV would just eat up CPU cycles for no benefit.
>  
> Of course, I'm running a relatively slow Mythbox... YMMV.
> 
> 	-----Original Message----- 
> 	From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org on behalf of Andrew Palm 
> 	Sent: Mon 8/8/2005 5:04 PM 
> 	To: Discussion about mythtv 
> 	Cc: 
> 	Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] burn-in. Should I be worried? - Dev Idea?
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> 	Hi Guys,
> 	
> 	Maybe the dev people can steal an idea from TiVo land... which are
> 	
> 	1. If the tivo is paused for x amount of time it blanks the screen.
> 	2. If left in a menu for x amount of time it returns to livetv.
> 	3. for MythMusic and other static stuff, maybe have it so either the
> 	visualization goes full screen after x amount of time or the screen
> 	blanks after x amount of time.
> 	
> 	Screen burning is a issue on all types of monitors, regardless of age.
> 	Yes that includes LCD, plasma and the good old CRT. I have LCD's at work
> 	  on KVM's that have been left on 'nt4' login screen, which is burnt in.
> 	I have read the LCD will loose its burn in, but to do this is need equal
> 	time off for time on! (and turning it off for 12 months anit a option)
> 	
> 	Andrew
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> 	mail2 wrote:
> 	> Hello Jesse
> 	> Press "5" (or "6")  in mythmusic will black the screen.
> 	> Pascal.
> 	> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jesse Guardiani" <jesse at wingnet.net>
> 	> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> 	> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 8:27 PM
> 	> Subject: [mythtv-users] burn-in. Should I be worried?
> 	>
> 	>
> 	>> Hello,
> 	>>
> 	>> I have a "normal" NTSC TV. Medium quality and nothing fancy.
> 	>> Should I be worried about burn-in?
> 	>>
> 	>> Particularly, mythmusic scares me, as only the small visualization
> 	>> window is actively updated, and I don't want to run the vis.
> 	>> full screen as it burns too much CPU.
> 	>>
> 	>> Pausing LiveTV concerns me too, and any of the MythTV menus
> 	>> scare me, as they're completely static. :)
> 	>>
> 	>> I started reading a MythTV screensaver thread that I found
> 	>> via google, but I got frustrated after about 10 iterations of
> 	>> people arguing for or against a screensaver without any
> 	>> clear resolution.
> 	>>
> 	>> So I guess the second part of this question is: Was there a
> 	>> resolution? Is a screensaver widely accepted as a good thing,
> 	>> or not? Is there any work being done to that end?
> 	>>
> 	>> But ultimately, should I be careful (and tell my wife to be
> 	>> careful) to avoid burn-in on this TV?
> 	>>
> 	>> Thanks!
> 	>>
> 	>> --
> 	>> Jesse Guardiani
> 	>> Programmer/Sys Admin
> 	>> jesse at wingnet.net
> 	>>
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