Hello, I would like to ask you all for a question.

My parents always said that playing games on TV will always damage the TV.
Recently we bought a Samsung LCD TV, and my dad said playing PS2 with it will spoil it.

I am rather sceptical about it.
What do you think?

It won't spoil it. It's just a myth.

yaphong : Ummm.... dude.. how does 1 spoit the LCDTV??

I have never heard of such a thing where a console blew up a tv b4. Probs your pop wants to screw around with your head so you dont play so games too long. = )

I wonder why parents always like to pull the "video games will spoil the TV" argument when their children play on it? I've listened to this excuse since I was 8 or 9 years old, right up till the time I convinced him to buy us a PS1 (10 years later). Nope, the TV didn't get damaged whatsoever. I'll take a wild guess here; if the TV was operated nonstop for days, or even weeks, then probably you have a chance of damaging the TV. It's just your everyday wear and tear issue, nothing special. Heck, if your parents were the ones watching TV nonstop for hours and weeks, the same thing might happen as well. So no, games don't have any magical properties to destroy your TV. Unless the player is the one doing the destroying.

A big 'NO!'

plugging in a ps2 to the tv is the same as plugging astro to the tv

To me, it just another signal (just like Astro or DVD signal to your TV).
But my parents always blame on the game, whenever the TV is spoilt and I have played games with it, they sure blame it is the game's fault.

get a new dad

ur rite pal, i remember in my childhood playing PS1, my mom always said it will spoilt the tv (actually the tv itself old already, its 15"). but now i think, when we are grew up, maybe they dont want we too "syok" when playing game and forgot to eat, bath, study etc..

ur spaming here

Damn sad la.
I thought I can finally enjoy PS2 game with a 40 inch Full HD TV in full glory...

Never mind, I guess I can play on weekends when they are not around

yes they do...usually in discoloration...but usually with chepo tv...i have post the question before and all LYN said it won't spoilt..

i agree with razorx66 that discoloration will happen due the higher color intensity game consoles output to TV screen. However it'll take years before you can notice that your TV colors starts fading.

Conclusion is, there's virtually no harm done unless you plan to use your TV for 10 years

lol... i heard this since i play snes 20 years ago.

it hunt my life since i play mario bros and street fighter..

Discolouration is something that will appear if you strain your TV. I partially agree that because video games use a broad spectrum of colour, it might stress out one of the three colour bands (red, green, blue) that make up the images. But it's no more worse than running a DVD player on the TV. This problem was more pronounced with CRT TVs because the phosphor can wear out with prolonged use.

So why have some people seen this discolouration? It's due to wear and tear. There's no mystery to it. After all, kids tend to play games much, much longer than a typical TV watching session. During my younger days, I'd play Megadrive from 8.30am to 5pm on pretty much every weekend. Can you guess how long it was before the TV died?

it just an excuse by malaysian parent in order to make gaming look bad

word!

well because they dont want u play ur ps2 at their new lcd tv...why dont u buy tv and put it at ur room...

obviously your parent dont want u to play game..

go study

1 month?