Thank you Mr. Gates!

For those of you newbies, this is a classic case of text burn. It's a Windows password screen left on the CRT face for 5500 hours. It makes the tubes totally useless for video use.


Curt

Curt,


I thought you knew better!

Wow...how could someone leave that password window up for so long...talk about stupidity.

Ouch!

Damned Microsoft advertising is EVERYWHERE!

Man, you guys will complain about anything

that's nasty! though I'm wondering how a BSOD would look like after 5500 hours

The BSOD would take on new meaning for your blue tube, I'd think!


Darrin

Let's ban together and add" Windows image burn" to all those class actions suits against Mr Bill. Maybe we'll end up with enough so we can all buy new tubes!

... and like many other NEC installs that we seem to see, this is yet another inefficient use of phosphor area!


That un-burnt area to the left/right of the 4x3 burn should have been about 1/2 as wide.


Kal

Curt,


in any case, it seems that the tubes are weared, even not considering the text burn...!

ok, ok. it seems very crazy to me too....



ciao

Romano

A buddy of mine just bought a 701 s that has the words 'It is now safe to shut down your computer' burned into the tubes, the red tube is most affected. If anybody has an extra red tube for the BD 701 s, let me know ;-)


Frode

Oh yeah? I'll see that tube burn, Paul, and raise you...


Curt

I just purchased a sony 1272Q with 1800 hours and will be using it for a display device for my computer. I want to beat the burn, any suggestions? Should I have my start bar move around the screen every few days? What color schemes in XP cause less burn than others? I mostly will be playing games (Jedi Knight 2 in high res on a big screen is really fun - also halflife! - and don't get me started on the size of lora crofts tits in tomb raider And probably play a LOT of baldurs gate and neverwinter nights on this thing - DAMN D&D has come a long way from the coffee table!! Thanks in advance.

Most would NOT recommend CRT for computer games because computer games, by their nature , are esentially just static images(majority of the background is static and only a tiny bit of foreground movement). You'll have to expect burn in and can only delay it by running your contrast and brightness settings a few notches below blooming.IMHO.

Most new games are 3-D etc so the image is moving just as much as any movie. However there can still be static images in the foreground such as level meters etc..it must have been a lot worse in the 70's and the 80's...

I mean, I've heard of people forgeting their passwords, but this is rediculous.