[MPlayer-users] Black borders can damage widescreen TVs?? are they kidding?

[Ivan Kalvachev]

2007/11/19, Alexander Roalter <alex at roalter.it>:
> Nico Sabbi wrote:
> > Hi,
> > according to this italian news magazine
> > http://www.repubblica.it/2007/11/sezioni/scienza_e_tecnologia/tv-digitale/tv-digitale/tv-digitale.html
> > the manual of an LCD TV reads:
> >
> > "On an LCD TV the usage of 4:3 format for an extended period of time
> > can leave traces on the borders of the left, right and central part
> > of the monitor because of the different light emissions of the screen"
> >
> > Are they kidding? It sounds totally crazy to me.
> >
> > Yet, the worst part of this story is that an association for the
> > defense of consumers' rights (supposedly) wants to lobby for the
> > forced broadcasting in 16/9 format, rather than recommending to buy
> > some tv not subjects to this aberration :))
>
> I wrote quite a long reply to this, but scrapped it for the sake of
> clarity:
>
> a) subject to traces should only be Plasma and CRT displays (for the
> known reasons)
> b) LCDs should not be affected (only if the background light wears off
> with time, but I don't know if this is the case on a LCD
> c) Everytime I come back to Italy I see about 10% of widescreen
> programming (esp. prime time shows on Canale5, Rete4, some on RaiDue and
> RaiTre, but that's all). Easter to summer 2007 most of the german
> stations (public broadcasters, the private ones are still behind...)
> switched to overall 16x9, only 'legacy' programming is still in 4:3.

The funny thing is that if all programs go into 16/9, then most
affected would be the old 4/3 CRT TV sets. I guess these set are also
and most widespread (for legacy reasons).