Is it bad to always have my iPod on the charger with the backlight on? I just want to be sure I don't have to worry about burning out the backlight, or hurting the battery.
Also just curious...having the same image on a screen isn't bad for the display is it?
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Originally posted by ast3r3x
Also just curious...having the same image on a screen isn't bad for the display is it?
For a iPod, no.
Old computer systems, (I'm talking greenscreens and such) used a phosphorus that held a charge after hours and hours. Over time this could produce a ghost image over anything that changes on the screen. This is when the concept of the screensaver was born. Color monitors were more advanced and were better at avoiding this problem. New CRT screens do not "burn" and use a high power magnet to equalize the screen. LCD displays like in laptops and your iPod do not use phosphorus and will not burn a image into the screen. However they can develop stuck pixels at the roll of a dice.
Originally posted by Ebby
For a iPod, no.
Old computer systems, (I'm talking greenscreens and such) used a phosphorus that held a charge after hours and hours. Over time this could produce a ghost image over anything that changes on the screen. This is when the concept of the screensaver was born. Color monitors were more advanced and were better at avoiding this problem. New CRT screens do not "burn" and use a high power magnet to equalize the screen. LCD displays like in laptops and your iPod do not use phosphorus and will not burn a image into the screen. However they can develop stuck pixels at the roll of a dice.
Yeah I knew about old CRT's having that problem, but I never heard of LCD's had that problem, although I assumed something as simple as the iPod LCD wouldn't. I remember on one of our ViewSonic monitors from 1994 or 1995 has a ghost image of the apple menu along the top of the screen. You can still make out the apple in the upper left hand corner