From: MooseFET on 12 Apr 2010 23:01 On Apr 11, 4:48 pm, "Skybuck Flying" <IntoTheFut...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > There is one big problem with CRT's, LCD's and possibly even televisions.... > > They all project lot's of light into our eyes, which screws with our > wake/sleeping pattern. > (Especially large white area's on the screens.) > > Maybe analog/non-light displays could solve such "health" issue's. Electro-mechanical puppets! Only the story line needs to be sent. The computer works out all the motions. > > Bye, > Skybuck.
From: Morten Reistad on 13 Apr 2010 04:33 In article <fiKwn.33934$iL1.10969(a)newsfe24.iad>, Martin Brown <|||newspam|||@nezumi.demon.co.uk> wrote: >I guess they have to be bright to look good in shop windows. > >You can adjust these settings to get a sensible real looking default >picture. A few of the newer ones now dynamically vary the back light >brightness to enhance to total luminance range displayable and/or >respond to changing ambient light levels automatically. >> >> But the fault is that of the user, wanting colors that are too >> saturated, too bright, and not at all realistick. All TVs that I have >> seen in the past 20 years come with a control unit tha allows the user >> to FIX the color should he not be so blind as he cannot correlate >> reality with TV. I, for one, find it very hard to correlate reality with tv. It has nothing to do with the colours, or the display settings, though. -- mrr
From: nmm1 on 15 Apr 2010 06:37 >> >>I was a 'Neilson family' for two years. I took it on as I saw it as my >> >>chance to make a difference. However, at the time I had a couch-potato flat >> >>mate who 'watched' 10x more TV than I did so in the end my input made little >> >>to no difference. :-( I always associate Nielsen (the correct spelling) with a resuscitation procedure - which seems very appropriate for couch potatoes :-) Regards, Nick Maclaren.
From: George Neuner on 15 Apr 2010 20:07
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:37:18 +0100 (BST), nmm1(a)cam.ac.uk wrote: >>> >>I was a 'Neilson family' for two years. I took it on as I saw it as my >>> >>chance to make a difference. However, at the time I had a couch-potato flat >>> >>mate who 'watched' 10x more TV than I did so in the end my input made little >>> >>to no difference. :-( > >I always associate Nielsen (the correct spelling) with a resuscitation >procedure - which seems very appropriate for couch potatoes :-) > > >Regards, >Nick Maclaren. Yeah, I goofed the spelling. Apologies to Nielsen. No excuse but I do know someone whose name is "Neilson". Anyway, my own family kept the diary for 3 months one summer, but we weren't asked to continue ... probably because our viewing habits (well written/acted dramas) were so far outside the norm of reality shows and idiot sitcoms. George |