Flat Screen (OT?)

[Ian Stirling]

No - unless she presses too hard. At which point, various things from a pixel or two failing, to the glass cracking (she'd have to work at it).

[Tim S]

It's not the best thing to do. However, we've got 200-odd of the things in various student PC labs (Imperial College) and they've survived, which is quite amazing considering how ham fisted some people are.

Timbo

[John]

I am hoping that Santa will bring me a LCD monitor now that my wife has got one at work. She thinks it is great - particularly when she pokes it and get rainbow effects (Aaargh). I suggested this was probably damaging - Is it?

[Ben]

200 in one place - what an excellent test. How many of them have dead pixels?

[Broadback]

What fascinates me is that when I press it display variation makes my brain think that the screen is soft! Is it just me soft in the head or does anyone else get the same illusion?

[Tim S]

Well - difficult - we don't have time to inspect them all over any period of time. What I will say is we get various makes after some evaluation. The evaluation units generally have no dead or stuck pixels (which is much worse than a dead one IMO) - if they do, we don't buy that brand. In theory we would send back a unit under warrenty if it did develop even a 1 pixel fault - but we'd have to notice first.

No-one been complaining though...

Cheers

Tim

[Alex]

LOL here I am prodding my Sony LCD just to double check, I always thought it was soft. Oops!

Alex

[Malcolm Stewart]

I know they are much smaller, but recent Sony camcorders have flat screens which are meant to be pressed. There's simply no other way of navigating the menu. I've found that a sharp nail press is much better than a soft finger tip. In my case, the screen doesn't appear to suffer too badly from finger grease. (Can't see it in strong light, but so what, who needs to change a menu item in strong light!)

[Alex]

What do you mainly use at Imperial? At UCL we almost exclusively use Dell flat panels in the newer areas, and Dell CRTs in the older ones - from what I'm told this is more due to reliabilty than a good £££ with Dell.

Alex