I hate all kinds of timeouts. Pretty much, they aren't necessary, in my experience, anyway.
When I press the pause button of my DVD player, I want it to stay paused, until I press some other button.
I'm grateful that Panasonic does still make a HDD/DVD recorder. But the way that pause times out in 5 minutes or so is extemely problematic for me.
With HDD (I haven't tried that on the Panny) I'm not sure what happens.
Are they trying to save the disc, the laser, or both?
Can't the still video just play from memory and have laser at standby during pause???
This is one of so many examples.
My LeGrand doorbell camera I bought a few years ago helpfully has a menu where you can set the "monitor" duration to 15 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute, and hold.
Nice, but "hold" doesn't work. Now, in some cases this might drain the camera battery. However, the great great virtue of this unit (I had never seen anything like it) was that you could power it from existing doorbell wiring, which carries low voltage from a transformer, which is how mine is hooked up, so I wanted that "hold" but it doesn't work. It gives no more time than the 1 minute setting, which often isn't enough even for serious use.
It would have been so nice to have permanent monitor of the outside.
Of course, for the longest time, the limitation of VCR recorders was that the various slow motion features would necessarily time out, to save both the head and the tape. But many VCR's had multiple slow motion speeds.
Now, with computer playback, where the still or slow motion could hold forever, the still most likely times out (at least due to screen preserver), AND, the slow motion features aren't available at all (and for that reason, I avoid computer playback, and only play from recorders that have the slow motion feature).
Now, it has often been said, that holding stills on various kinds of screens, can cause burn it, stuck pixels, and so on.
I'd held pictures for days on my 2009 Samsung LCD, and never had any burn in or stuck pixels.
Now, I was using only moderate contrast.
But I believe by now, this fear of still images is far over exaggerated. Maybe if "forever" holds aren't good, how about at least an hour. And if I don't want any limit, anyway, at least when it can be handled, give me that.
When I press the pause button of my DVD player, I want it to stay paused, until I press some other button.
I'm grateful that Panasonic does still make a HDD/DVD recorder. But the way that pause times out in 5 minutes or so is extemely problematic for me.
With HDD (I haven't tried that on the Panny) I'm not sure what happens.
Are they trying to save the disc, the laser, or both?
Can't the still video just play from memory and have laser at standby during pause???
This is one of so many examples.
My LeGrand doorbell camera I bought a few years ago helpfully has a menu where you can set the "monitor" duration to 15 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute, and hold.
Nice, but "hold" doesn't work. Now, in some cases this might drain the camera battery. However, the great great virtue of this unit (I had never seen anything like it) was that you could power it from existing doorbell wiring, which carries low voltage from a transformer, which is how mine is hooked up, so I wanted that "hold" but it doesn't work. It gives no more time than the 1 minute setting, which often isn't enough even for serious use.
It would have been so nice to have permanent monitor of the outside.
Of course, for the longest time, the limitation of VCR recorders was that the various slow motion features would necessarily time out, to save both the head and the tape. But many VCR's had multiple slow motion speeds.
Now, with computer playback, where the still or slow motion could hold forever, the still most likely times out (at least due to screen preserver), AND, the slow motion features aren't available at all (and for that reason, I avoid computer playback, and only play from recorders that have the slow motion feature).
Now, it has often been said, that holding stills on various kinds of screens, can cause burn it, stuck pixels, and so on.
I'd held pictures for days on my 2009 Samsung LCD, and never had any burn in or stuck pixels.
Now, I was using only moderate contrast.
But I believe by now, this fear of still images is far over exaggerated. Maybe if "forever" holds aren't good, how about at least an hour. And if I don't want any limit, anyway, at least when it can be handled, give me that.
No comments:
Post a Comment