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Is a screensaver available?

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    Saralee

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    My old Humax has failed and I’ve bought a 5000T.
    There was a screensaver on the old one, but the 5000T doesn’t seem to have one.
    Is there one that can be turned on?
    At the moment, I’m turning the TV off to save the screen.

    | Sat 18 Aug 2018 21:13:53 #1 |
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    No screen saver. What sort of TV do you have ?

    | Sun 19 Aug 2018 12:22:49 #2 |
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    It's a Samsung TV
    With the old Humax, if one paused either a recording or live TV, after a few minutes a screen saver appeared on the TV, showing the current time, which would keep repositioning itself on the otherwise black screen

    | Sun 19 Aug 2018 15:38:29 #3 |
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    Saralee - 7 minutes ago  » 
    It's a Samsung TV
    With the old Humax, if one paused either a recording or live TV, after a few minutes a screen saver appeared on the TV, showing the current time, which would keep repositioning itself on the otherwise black screen

    If it's a LCD TV then you don't really need a screen saver.

    | Sun 19 Aug 2018 15:47:23 #4 |
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    That also goes for samsung LED tv's as well.

    | Sun 19 Aug 2018 18:24:35 #5 |
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    john1 - 58 minutes ago  » 
    That also goes for samsung LED tv's as well.

    LED just refers to the backlighting, they are all LCD TV's.

    | Sun 19 Aug 2018 19:24:16 #6 |
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    Oh that’s brilliant.
    I had assumed that the screensaver was necessary because it was on the old one.
    Thanks so much for your help.

    | Mon 20 Aug 2018 7:09:48 #7 |
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    Saralee - 1 hour ago  » 
    Oh that’s brilliant.
    I had assumed that the screensaver was necessary because it was on the old one.
    Thanks so much for your help.

    Screensavers were really needed for Plasma TV's which like CRT's suffer from screen burn. LCD's can get image retention issues, but unlike screen burn it's not permanent.

    | Mon 20 Aug 2018 8:43:02 #8 |

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