Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:55:21 -0400 | From | Timothy Miller <> | Subject | Re: Turning off automatic screen clanking |
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Herbert Pötzl wrote:
>>Why don't we borrow a trick from my old Atari 8-bit computer. Instead >>of blanking, cycle the colors. Best of both worlds: You save your >>monitor AND you get to see what's on the screen. > > > hmm, ignoring the issue that modern monitors will not > suffer the burnin, how would it help to cycle the colors? > the only valid solution would be inverting the image on > a regular basis, and I don't think that this would be > appreciated ... >
So, if there's no point to having screen-blanking, why is it in there to begin with? To protect OLD monitors from burnin?
Is screen-blanking there just to make people feel better who think they need screen-blanking? As I understand, it doesn't do any power-management stuff anyhow.
What's the deal?
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