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?

honestly i prefer to play ps2 using normal crt tv then a big size LCD..it will just make the graphics worst due to the resolution..u need to use component cable but i doubt it will help much

PS2 looks better on CRT TV..

btw having problem with my TV too during the Micro Genius good old days..my parents blamed the MG as the main reason in colour fading..that time only played 1-2 hours only per day...only on school holiday pulak tu..

partially correct partially not.I'm not sure about LCD but for CRT tv,if ur tv display the same scence for too long without any movement (playing same game with almost same scene),u might "over burn" the tv screen and when this happen,u'll see some "shadow" on ur tv even u oledi switch it off.I had expereince the issue when install a security CTV showing the same view all the time.So when i off the tv now,i still can see some "black image/shadow" which still show after u switch off the TV. anyway,i think this wont happen to today modern games which wont display the same view all the time.Not like the older 2D games whereby only the one u play is moving,the view on top and bottom especially is "still".

I must say 90% parent saying that simply becos they dun want their kids to play too long and forget aboput their homeworks/makan/mandi lor.I got no kids yet but i understand if my kids one day playing games untill lupa makan,hard to accept la,what do u think?

100% false.

How is it electrical signal from a video game is any different from dvd player or astro decoder?

The only reason why TV seem faulty is because kids would often adjust the TV setting to get that correct signal coming from a video game console.

Just take a look at some video stores like Speedy and you will notice their TV are often in bad condition because its long hours of usage. Not even a single video game console was used.

no, it wont... but playing Wii "MIGHT" spoil it...

lol you mean via "Flying Nunchuk"?

Either your parents are selfish

or your parents are stupid


It's really one or the other

this myth actually happen to me since micro genius era....whenever I play it, the TV will broken not long after that for about a year like that ...don't know why? maybe cheapo TV)...u know la what kind TV at that time...so my mother always babling about this all the time I got myself a new game...right now, I buy myself the TV so they don't scold whatever about this since its my money...

yea go and get tv for yourself...

This post has been edited by GamersFamilia: Jul 27 2008, 03:57 PM

cheap tv only cost rm199 nowadays

Hahaha I would if I could, but my room currently doesn't have enough power socket.

Currently that one socket has been extended to 7 power sockets + 1 aircon. lol

this is why I worked my ass off and bought my own tv

with my own console

and my own game.

I bought s Sharp (no av input that time, only RCA) when I was in secondary school, when I was in Uni, i bought Sony Trinitron 29' (the TV, not to be confused with the forum jackass) and last two years I bought Panasonic LCD. My money, my choice.

This post has been edited by snipersnake: Jul 31 2008, 09:21 AM

my friend's tv busted after a whole day we spent playing Tekken.



but actually i didnt think playing games will spoiled the tv. Every thing has a life span, the way you use & handle it will affect the lifespan. Playing console on LCD tv the whole day is as same as watching Astro the whole day



usually parent will say those kind of thing to forbid you from playing any computer games
if they sooo afraid the tv will be spoiled, just ask them to wrap it back & put inside the box. The the tv wont be spoiled for the next 10-20 years


just keep this thing in mind: NOTHING last forever..but eventho it wont last forever, handle it with care & respect

Just like your Dad's car, you driving it will SPOIL it. Or your toy, your brother play will spoilt it......just excuse. TV is the extension of that sense selfishness from your parent. The point of the story,don't mess with their TV !!!!

As long as there is proper ventilation and dust-free, the LCD TV shall last long enough.

If you play PS2 on RPTV (rear projection tv), then you are in for trouble. It is not meant to play long hours of video game. I am not sure abt this, but it was mentioned in the manual

one of the reasons why i lost interest in my PS2, component cable did help a bit, but the stupid TV refuses to display the picture properly wanted to hook it back with the old 21" CRT but it went dead on me when i was about to do so now my PS2 is only played for 1 hour per every few months

flying nunchuk

anyway, to TS, it doesn't matter here whether it is a myth or not, ur dad bought the tv and he has every right on how it should be used, but i'd prefer to get myself a tv and play my games in my own room (privacy, and i feel bad if i hog the tv and the entire family has to watch me play)
but it's a waste of time anyway if u are addicted and play for long hours. when i was addicted back then, i could play for more than 12 hours non-stop, but if u think again, the time could be better spent at doing other stuffs. no offense

Your dad want to watch porn movies, so you better go to bed early...LOL.

As others mentioned, old CRT TV will suffer from burn-ins due to stagnant pictures. Most games today are not so stagnant, and new LCD monitors does not suffer from burn in as much.

But that doesn't mean they won't. I saw old LCDs (maybe 6 to 7 years ago?)...use 24/7 for monitoring traffic...burn in are very evident. However, those are old LCDs and the application screen don't move most of the time, not so sure about new LCDs, but if you're only using about 3 hours a day and with games, where everything flies around, it is highly unlikely you'll get burn in.

I'm afraid that it won't spoil the TV.... It might spoil ur EYES..... ARRRGGGHHH!!!! The graphics are so crappy that my eyes wanna explode...... (especially when playing games that hav appeared in PS3 and Xbox 360)

LOL..... The Legendary Flying Wii Controller... I think someone should edit some pics for it la.....

Actually, to be honest, I dun think playing a console on TV will spoil the TV..... It's just that maybe the TV is starting to detiorate and thus not able to function....

This post has been edited by Aura: Aug 7 2008, 02:39 PM