Some of our museum info kiosks, aka the cheapest Android tablets available, are showing signs of burn-in from the VCF logo screen saver. I don't know if this is literally old-fashioned "burn it" or some other technical issue. Quick search reveals un-burn apps that display many colors etc. to undo symptoms. Anyway, to prevent this from happening on all of our tablets, we should make a screensaver more elaborate than the current one (our "ectoplasm" logo on a black background). Please note that the screensaver is a web page with an image; the kiosk app requires this vs. loading an image directly. Can someone make a version of our logo that does things such as fade in/out, bounce around, spin, etc.? I don't think HTML5 video would work because some of the tablets use older Android 4.4. ------------------------- Evan Koblentz, director Vintage Computer Federation A 501(c)3 educational non-profit Evan@vcfed.org (646) 546-9999 www.vcfed.org facebook.com/vcfederation twitter.com/vcfederation
Are the tablets able to display this URL properly? http://www.masswerk.at/flyer/?10,md,clr On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 4:05 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Some of our museum info kiosks, aka the cheapest Android tablets available, are showing signs of burn-in from the VCF logo screen saver.
I don't know if this is literally old-fashioned "burn it" or some other technical issue.
Quick search reveals un-burn apps that display many colors etc. to undo symptoms.
Anyway, to prevent this from happening on all of our tablets, we should make a screensaver more elaborate than the current one (our "ectoplasm" logo on a black background). Please note that the screensaver is a web page with an image; the kiosk app requires this vs. loading an image directly.
Can someone make a version of our logo that does things such as fade in/out, bounce around, spin, etc.?
I don't think HTML5 video would work because some of the tablets use older Android 4.4. ------------------------- Evan Koblentz, director Vintage Computer Federation A 501(c)3 educational non-profit
Evan@vcfed.org (646) 546-9999
www.vcfed.org facebook.com/vcfederation twitter.com/vcfederation
-- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085
Love it!!! On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Jason Perkins via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Are the tablets able to display this URL properly?
http://www.masswerk.at/flyer/?10,md,clr
On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 4:05 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Some of our museum info kiosks, aka the cheapest Android tablets available, are showing signs of burn-in from the VCF logo screen saver.
I don't know if this is literally old-fashioned "burn it" or some other technical issue.
Quick search reveals un-burn apps that display many colors etc. to undo symptoms.
Anyway, to prevent this from happening on all of our tablets, we should make a screensaver more elaborate than the current one (our "ectoplasm" logo on a black background). Please note that the screensaver is a web page with an image; the kiosk app requires this vs. loading an image directly.
Can someone make a version of our logo that does things such as fade in/out, bounce around, spin, etc.?
I don't think HTML5 video would work because some of the tablets use older Android 4.4. ------------------------- Evan Koblentz, director Vintage Computer Federation A 501(c)3 educational non-profit
Evan@vcfed.org (646) 546-9999
www.vcfed.org facebook.com/vcfederation twitter.com/vcfederation
-- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085
Interesting test! We probably can't try it until next weekend. Anyone have a 4.4 device handy? If so, test that link and report back to me.
I do know that Samsung's AMOLED displays can suffer burn in. Maybe these low-end displays have some issue that makes them more likely to burn in. I have to admit that I'm not an LCD technology expert, though. - Alex On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 6:04 PM, - - via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On May 28, 2017 at 4:43 PM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
http://www.masswerk.at/flyer/?10,md,clr
Interesting test! We probably can't try it until next weekend.
Anyone have a 4.4 device handy? If so, test that link and report back to me.
Works on my Lenovo 10" tablet running Android 4.4.2, doesn't work at all on Android 2.3 ;-)
I've seen LCDs suffer image "burn in". It can sometimes be fixed by letting a color cycling display run for several hours.
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