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- gadgets@lemmit.online
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When I worked at target we had an oled that ran a 3 minuteish display loop all day from 8am to 10pm. After a couple years it burned some of the graphics from one of the commercials.
Definitely turned off some buyers when they saw it.
I’m surprised the store kept that unit out if once it became that bad. A TV running in a store is a extreme situation which is not a good example of what a TV will run like or even look like (crazy color/lighting settings) when used at home.
That was honestly the fault of the store and not really the tv/manufacturer.
I told the manager about it multiple times. The problem is that to replace it the new TV would have had to come out of the store stock, which would look negative on our reports. So they just let it sit there for literally years with the burn in.
It finally got replaced when an LG rep came in and saw it, he had to order one so the store wouldn’t take the hit.
My CRT would probably still turn on if I hadn’t thrown it out for, you know, not being good anymore. People act like they’re gonna use a monitor for 20 years and 18 hours a day with a static image.
A couple of times a year I’m using an old Olivetti CRT - green monochrome with VGA input - on an old DOS machine (upgraded to IBM PC-DOS 5.0) I inherited from work more than 15 years ago.
It still shows a shadow image of the command interface for the online (pre-internet) database it was connected to 8 hours a day for ca. 10 years before I got it.
But it’s still fine for checking incoming diskettes (3,5 inch hard-shell diskettes, as the windows save-icon - NOT floppy as the 5,25 inch floppy-disks on the machine that predated it) before backing up the data.Samo on older CNC machines in our mechanical shop. Some very large horizontal lathes (we make and repair rolling mill gear on them) are relatively old but work really well. They still have Fanuc and Sinumerik control modules with CRT on them. And yes burn in is there , and very strong. Last time when CRT died , repair Maister just replaced it with generic 12" industrial LCD.