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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
I just noticed this fading issue in person.
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What's the big fuss, anyway?
CRT monitors faded. Always did. In the graphics industry, a CRT monitor was ditched after 5 years because it lost so much brightness that it became impossible to attain (and sustain) the 100 cd/mē brightness required.
LCD monitors fade too, allthough it is less of a problem. A normal LCD display can easily attain at least 250, and often up to 400 cd/mē of brightness, so it can lose a huge amount of brightness before becoming useless. (The normal working brightness for graphics stuff is around 120 cd/mē when using LCD's.)
The colors don't fade all at the same speed. I don't know which of the RGB colors normally fades fastest, but in my 6 years old EIZO S1931, it seems to be blue. The settings at this point in time are:
R: 83 %
G: 86 %
B: 100 %
Brightness is at 61% percent. When I got this monitor, the settings were more like somewhere in the 90's for R and G, and overall brightness set to around 57%.
Of course, as the blue subpixels fade faster than the others, the red and green subpixels must be set at a lower and lower setting to provide similar brightness to blue, and then the entire screen will be darker. To compensate, general brightness needs to be raised. If The monitor is still fine for amateur graphics use, but if I had been a professional graphics artist, this monitor would have become useless about 3 years ago already, because Red and Green are too far apart from Blue.
(Which reminds me: at some point, I must buy another 19 inch monitor as a reserve, when this computer gets replaced and becomes a PC for legacy games; although I expect all of my games to still run on Windows 8.)
To be honest, I don't expect anything else from an e-ink screen; becoming faded or "tired" in some way after years of heavy use. With regard to money, most people won't have a problem replacing such a device very 5-6 years, and they get cheaper every year. Yeah, I know, it would be best if the device held out of 25 years, but if that could be done, it would probably be prohibitively expensive to produce and support. It's not a car...