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Bill Kendrick writes "New Scientist reports there's a new wide-screen LCD from Philips which becomes a mirror when you turn it off. Now I just need that holographic fireplace..." Sorry - a dupe from June
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You have to wonder what effect all this TV watching has on the children's attention span.
And what about computers? I can launch firefox (or whatever browser you choose) and go to anything I want anytime. No need to RTFA, I can just read the comments. I can google anything I want and have it in front of me in seconds. How is this any better for attention span than a TV?
That's actually very odd. LCDs are used in many fields (namely medical and surveying) because they do not glare as much as CRT screens do. This seems kind of counter-intuitive. Hopefully there is a secondary off mode of some kind.
Double Entendre is a great technique for speeches, like the ones you see presidents giving on the television, or the ones you practice in front of the mirror.
Philips is watching us, man.
Some people think you're right. Does anyone remember this incident? If I remember correctly he believed that the black bands displayed when watching widescreen movies in 4:3 aspect ratio were being used to send hidden messages.
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A picture's worth a thousand words: clicky
Beneath the woman's neck on the screen you'll find a couple of massive reflections from the ceiling interfering with the picture.
Being a "promotional" picture, the actual experience with this screen is probably worse than that illustrated.
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...a pocket mirror that's also a TV.
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I have one question. What is it that causes the high pitch squeeling noises out of new TVs (1998 and newer) today that didn't occur in older TVs (before 1995)?
To some of us, ALL TVs produce this. It's known as "CRT whine".
:) When TV shopping I've actually gone to the trouble to ask if I can check out a TV in a manager's office (or some other quiet room), because it's simply too loud for me to hear if a particular set is going to bug me or not.
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I've always been especially sensitive to it; it was always fun in elementary school when the teacher would spend 15 minutes trying to get the TV/VCR to work, everything seemed fine, yet no picture on the TV. I'd eventually pipe up "the TV isn't plugged in." Worked for TVs without power-on lights the best, of course, because other than the picture they have no indication of whether or not the TV is actually powered up. The teachers eventually learned to trust me on this one. I can hear CRT whine in other rooms, down the hall, you name it. I can tell blindfolded, and yes, friends and I have tested this, whether or not a TV or monitor is turned on. It freaks some people out, but a surprising number of people can hear it if it's pointed out to them.
And yes, I'm one of those people who uses LCD monitors exclusively, unless I have no choice. It's simply too irritating otherwise. Cube farms are a real treat - eventually you learn to tune it out, but it's always there in the background.
When a TV/monitor is on its last legs, it gets REALLY bad, although at that point everyone can hear it. It's fun to tell my friends when their monitor is on the fritz, I can usually pick it up months before the tube dies. I've also noticed, as have you, that newer tubes are even noisier. I notice this particularly on some models; RCA proscans are some of the worst. No idea why, other than to say welcome to my own personal hell
Oh, and walking past the wall-o-televisions at Best Buy is about as close to torture as I've experienced.
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.