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myLot reputation of 86/100. Genericbe (1204)   ranked 2,185 out of 2,320 in tv 3 years ago

There are many high tech televisions that are invented nowadays and one of them are LCD Televisions. The retailer says that flat screen have no radiations at all. Do you agree with this?

 

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1. myLot reputation of 86/100. owlwings (12357)   3 years ago

In the early days of cathode ray tubes, the electron guns fired a stream of electrons at the screen and this sometimes resulted in significant amounts of harmful radiation. Later models of CRT screen were adequately screened and the amount of excess radiation has for a long time been negligible, though many people still (wrongly) continue to believe that it can be harmful.

LCD and Plasma screens work on an entirely different system using much lower voltages and consuming much less power. They don't emit the same kind of radiation at all. In fact the only significant radiation they emit is in the visible spectrum (which is what we want, of course!)

The dangers of using any computer or TV screen are actually, as they have always been, much more due to eye strain from looking fixedly at one object for a long time and to physical strain due to poor posture and incorrect heights of desk and chair.

A computer screen should always be at or just below the normal line of sight and directly in front of the operator; the room should be normally lit, especially the area directly behind the screen and on the desktop; the screen should be placed so that there are no reflections of bright objects in the room.

Much the same applies to a TV screen except, of course, that one tends to watch TV while sitting in an armchair or sofa so that one's head is naturally tilted back. A TV is best positioned slightly above one's normal head level when seated. The room lighting, however, is just as important when viewing TV as it is when using a computer.


myLot reputation of 86/100. Genericbe (1204)   ranked 2,185 out of 2,320 in tv  3 years ago

Hello owlwings, thanks for sharing your idea. The radiation stuff really confuses me especially when my mom doesn't want me to stay always in front of my computer.


myLot reputation of 86/100. owlwings (12357)  3 years ago

My 'ideas' are facts!

Your mom has her reasons, of course, for not wanting you to stay in front of the computer all day. She may be using the radiation thing to back up her argument but it's without foundation, really. You need to ask yourself what are her real reasons. I think that you will find that the real and main reason is that she doesn't think it healthy for someone to lock themselves away in front of a screen to the exclusion of normal social activity and exercise. You also need to take a long hard look at your own reasons. A computer is just a tool. What are you actually using that tool for? Are your reasons for doing those things any more valid than your mom's reasons for you not doing those things?

I also am at my computer much of the day and I have to admit that much more than half of that time is not really productive! I don't have a mom to shout at me, however - I have a wife (which is not very different in many respects). I do have my reasons, too, for shutting myself away and they have less to do with 'productivity' than I pretend. I ought to be ashamed of them, I suppose (and sometimes am).

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2. myLot reputation of 91/100. werdan88 (186)   ranked 567 out of 2,320 in tv   3 years ago

I never knew that. However, if that is true, that is great news. :)

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