lcd monitors and screensavers

[Henry Spencer]

On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, dave morton wrote:
> Are screensavers necessary to protect my lcd monitor? I understand that 
> these screens do not suffer from pshospor over-burn so why bother.

Screen savers have been useless and pointless since the mid-1990s.  All
modern monitors, CRTs and LCDs alike, are better put into one of the
deeper DPMS ("Energy Star") power-down states.  This not only eliminates
wear on vulnerable components -- much better than just spreading the wear
around evenly -- but also saves energy. 

(By the way, your computer seems to think it's January 2004...)

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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