View Full Version : Forum Challenge-can You Kill My Tv?
noreg
01-23-2007, 12:11 AM
I'm conducting an experiment for a magazine where we are putting a HDTV through a rigorous testing cycle. It is a 52" LG DLP HDTV. Anyone got any ideas on a test that would cause pixel death, or any other "legitimate use" that would put this TV under some serious strain? Thanks guys!
Copying posts from one forum to another is not kosher. People here will post their suggestions and you can take those responses for your "experiment".
Knicks4973
01-23-2007, 07:42 AM
You could try turning the contrast all the way up. Some tv's in torch mode already have the contrast all the way up, and I guess a fair amount of people who buy HDTV's won't adjust any settings, but use the tv as they got it. That should be a legitimate use.
abeas
01-23-2007, 08:35 AM
How about you give the TV to someone deserving of one but can not afford it. This would be more legitimate than having a TV and trying to break it, then someone not having one who would love to watch it.
CNET and tons of other sites give information on what to do to avoid breaking your TV or damaging it. Why is yours going to be better?
I don't believe that having the contrast high has any deleterious effects on TVs like DLPs, LCDs, LCoS because that simply adjusts an electronic circuit. It doesn't cause the equipment to "run harder" like it does for CRTs and plasmas causing premature fading. Even then, the TV continues to operate fine, the picture has just faded.
Ratman
01-23-2007, 12:40 PM
IMO... I see no productive point to this thread.
I think the direction of this forum is to help explain how to get the best from your TV as opposed to intentionally cause it to fail.
Knicks4973
01-24-2007, 08:38 AM
IMO... I see no productive point to this thread. I think the direction of this forum is to help explain how to get the best from your TV as opposed to intentionally cause it to fail.
That's a perfect way to put it. I would like to add that tv's these days are probably made to last quite a long time, so your "experiments" might take possibly a year, not a week or two, which I think you're counting on for the tv to fail.
As an earlier poster suggested, give the tv to a person who can't afford one. Maybe change the experiment and see how long the tv lasts with this person, instead of wasting a tv for an experiement which won't finish in time for your magazine.
