On Dec 13, 2004, at 3:56 PM, Marcin Wichary wrote:
However, if you are using a LCD monitor, I'd recommend
against never sleeping the monitor as you will accelerate degradation of the
illumination lamp. I've worn out several across the past couple of years.
This is new to me, I always assumed that the LCDs should be put to sleep as often as possible in order *not* to accelerate degradation of the illumination lamp. Could you elaborate some more?
In a tortured double-negative, what he said was he recommends against leaving the monitor on all the time.
Yes, it should be allowed to sleep since the cold-cathode tubes used for backlighting have a finite lifetime.
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