Talk:Screensaver

message: While I don't dispute the characterization of the fish-tank-to-3d-television as being a "screensaver" I do dispute the text here that reads
"Decades before the first computers utilizing this technology were invented, Robert A. Heinlein postulated that they would be needed in his novel Stranger In A Strange Land (1961).[1][2]" (emphasis added)
I don't see that.  It looks to me as though Heinlein's fish tank "screen saver" mode was more like the current understanding of screen saver--not as a technology used to preserve color phosphors but simply as a useful "ilde mode" for your super-high tech device to be in while it's not doing anything super high-tech.
It would also have made a good scene in a movie--where we see the supposedly very normal 20th century (remember when the story was written) fish tank suddenly do something very futuristic that a fish tank can't do to remind us that "we're in the future now".
PragmaticallyWyrd (talk) 17:43, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heinlein claim 

message: I would like to dispute the claim that "The first screensaver was allegedly written for the original IBM PC by John Socha" - whilst he might have coined the term "screen saver" for this type of program, I found at least one earlier example for an "idling" program written by Li-Chen Wang for the Dazzler graphics card in Byte Magazine June 1976, Page 6+7. 
Quote: "Another delightful application of the display is an "idling" program you'll probably want to leave in the computer system when you're not using it for another purpose. This program is Li-Chen Wang's colorful Kaleidoscope program. The program is surprisingly short, just 127 bytes long, yet it generates an unending sequence of captivating patterns." Source: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1976-06/page/n7/mode/2up  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Quasimondo (talk • contribs) 11:49, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: If there are security risks to screensavers, Microsoft Windows should put an end to screen savers.  Also, they should limit screensavers to blank screen only anlong with password protection. --SuperDude 03:38, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Or people could be more responsible in their downloading and don't download screensavers from disreputable places. Avengerx 12:00, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

text: See also: Dancing pigs --tyomitch 12:22, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Security consderations 

message: Or whatever it is. I was reading this article, and noticed a strange sentence at the end of the 'entertainment' section, effectively plugging a particular screensaver. Looking into the edit history, it was added in 23:20, 29 August 2005 Andrewgorry, an edit which also added a link to the website to download this. I am removing this sentence as spam. If I'm wrong, people can read why here, add it back, and explain why. 
The sentence was Taking this development a step further, Idle Time is an art project and screensaver that uses the screensaver medium as a form of cinema.
Thank you 09:24, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Because we weren't paying enough attention. This article's a magnet for link spam. —Bunchofgrapes  (talk) 21:46, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Idle Time

message: For something as average and potentially interesting, this article is really very very dull. The history "section" is just a small paragraph, for example. No mention of some modern screen savers being graphic intensive pieces of software either, such as some of the amazingly "crafted" clocks and clock towers out there, in 3D. JayKeaton 19:00, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Page is dull

message: Should the article have some mention of screen savers in businesses?  Some companies have screen savers which are based on the company's logo.  In a different area, I recently saw a screen saver that had several “slogans” to remind employees to keep a positive, customer-oriented attitude.
 206.53.197.12 21:39, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Uses in Businesses

message: Hello,
why gets my website www.screensaver-download.info removed?
It contains Screensavers like the Website which is linked. They are even free..
Is there something wrong with the Website?
bill
: Nothing's wrong with your website, bill, but Wikipedia isn't a place for links to products like that. - JNighthawk 17:25, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Url Removed 

message: Anybody mind if I merge some content from 3d screensaver?  It probably doesn't warrant its own entry, but could add some material here.  Wyatt Riot 20:18, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merger at [[3d screensaver]] 

message: Some topics not covered:  photo slideshow screen-savers. Spot 20:19, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed topics 

message: I can't prove it but I believe power-cycling older CRTs wouldn't have been a
good idea because it stresses the transistors and other electronic parts if
the screen isn't designed for it. Also it used to take a moment before a CRT reaches its full brightness. Furthermore, it was simply not possible to switch
of screens in software. You could at best switch of the graphics output (though
this wasn't really standardized and required low-level programming) or display
black. In the 1990s PC screens started to support DPMS, which specifies different stand-by modes and power-off via software. For these screens it shouldn't be a problem but I suspect it might still reduce their life-time. I don't think
"screensaver" is a misnomer per se. It is supposed to save the screen, not power
or anything else and originally they full-filled this purpose quite well. Rather it's meaning has been heavily ever since this kind of software became entertainment and many people likely don't know its actual purpose in the first place. Also the term has been coined long before LCDs were widely used. Blame the people misusing the term and screensavers for hardware that doesn't need them. --217.87.104.59 (talk) 21:14, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Saving screens by power-off instead of moving images 

message: Should we add
--77.4.52.241 (talk) 10:47, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Pixel

message: Edited out the erroneous statement that the Apple Lisa was "the very first graphical computer," 1983
There had been many "graphical computers", and although the term is vague and amorphous, the Xerox Star had been around for 10 years already. (no need to go into this further I hope.)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.241.116.152 (talk) 06:52, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Screensaver note amend re:Apple Lisa 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: "Pretty much all OLED TVs [...] have built-in screen savers that pop up after extended idle time. You should also enable screen savers on connected devices like game consoles and streamers." https://www.cnet.com/news/oled-screen-burn-in-what-you-need-to-know/
And OLED monitors are more and more common... --BlueTemplar (talk) 15:27, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Modern monitors are not susceptible to [Burn-in] ?"