From: MooseFET on
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
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
>> >>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
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