Marko M?kel? wrote: >> Actually I would press the pause button, as I usually don't want to miss >> anything. And then the playback should be halted anyway, no matter if >> display is on or off. > > But you surely would power the display off, to avoid burning the still > image on the CRT or plasma screen or to save the precious hours on the > lamp of your video beamer? Or maybe you have a TFT screen and do not > care about wasting electricity? Actually, I have a plain old CRT that doesn't seriously suffer from burning in. (provide that I resume playback within a month or so. ;) ) And if I want to save power, I power off the CRT completely, and thats something my VDR cannot do on its own (yet). Just blanking the screen has no advantage for me. Cheers, Udo
