How strong are LCD screens?

Ed wrote:
Resident Drunk wrote:
Ed wrote:
My kid keeps throwing his toys or other hard objects at the screen.
How strong are these screens, or should I expect to have to make an
insurance claim?


You need one of these Ed :

http://tinyurl.com/y7m2lb

- impeccable behaviour guaranteed.

He's only 1½, I think one of those might kill him!

Well that would stop him throwing things. ;-)

Ed wrote:
Resident Drunk wrote:
Ed wrote:
My kid keeps throwing his toys or other hard objects at the screen. How
strong are these screens, or should I expect to have to make an
insurance claim?


You need one of these Ed :

http://tinyurl.com/y7m2lb

- impeccable behaviour guaranteed.

He's only 1½, I think one of those might kill him!

Take the toys and other hard throwable objects out of the room.

"Sofa - Spud" wrote in message
ups.com...
About 10yrs ago we did some sampling work for Advent , hotfoiling onto
perspex so it could be seen gold from the "other" side. It gave 3d
effect.

You mean it looked as if it had cost threepence?

Bill

On 19 Oct 2006 23:46:23 -0700, "Ed" wrote:

My kid keeps throwing his toys or other hard objects at the screen. How
strong are these screens, or should I expect to have to make an
insurance claim?

Take the kid out of the room with the tv. Give it an old telephone
directory to read.

Alternatively visit a zoo and drop it into the hyena enclosure. A chav
a day is as good as a Thompsons Gazelle.


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How strong are these screens, or should I expect to have to make an
insurance claim?


I saw one broken at work after someone had knocked the screen with a
telephone handset
(ironically having just called IT for something else)

It was still working after a fashion but looked like someone had thrown
white paint all over the screen

IT bod went off to try and find if it was covered by iinsurance...

On 19 Oct 2006 23:46:23 -0700, "Ed" wrote:

My kid keeps throwing his toys or other hard objects at the screen. How
strong are these screens, or should I expect to have to make an
insurance claim?

Throw him at the screen and see how he likes it .:-)


Stuart

"Ed" wrote in message
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My kid keeps throwing his toys or other hard objects at the screen. How
strong are these screens, or should I expect to have to make an
insurance claim?

I hope you appreciate all the useful replies so far.

How strong to the touch is it? My LCD computer monitor feels quite soft and
plasticky, and the colours change if I press on it. I assume that LCD TVs
are a bit stronger than that, but probably still not made of anything strong
like glass.

Just shows the benefits of having a screen that needs to hold in a vacuum
(if that makes any sense). A CRT should be OK against a half brick if it
isn't thrown too hard.

--
Max Demian

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"Sofa - Spud" wrote in message
ups.com...
About 10yrs ago we did some sampling work for Advent , hotfoiling onto
perspex so it could be seen gold from the "other" side. It gave 3d
effect.

You mean it looked as if it had cost threepence?

Reminds me of the "colour TV screens" they used to make before real colour
TV came out - do you remember them Bill? They were made of flexible plastic
and you trimmed them and stuck them to your black and white screen. They
were blue at the top (for sky), green at the bottom (for grass), and merged
together in the middle with a sort of orangey colour. Which? took them
seriously enough to review them.

--
Max Demian

Max Demian said the following on 20/10/06 15:18:
"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"Sofa - Spud" wrote in message
ups.com...
About 10yrs ago we did some sampling work for Advent , hotfoiling onto
perspex so it could be seen gold from the "other" side. It gave 3d
effect.
You mean it looked as if it had cost threepence?

Reminds me of the "colour TV screens" they used to make before real colour
TV came out - do you remember them Bill? They were made of flexible plastic
and you trimmed them and stuck them to your black and white screen. They
were blue at the top (for sky), green at the bottom (for grass), and merged
together in the middle with a sort of orangey colour. Which? took them
seriously enough to review them.

So, if you took my idea and coated it with a rose colour, it would be a
way that would keep your wife happy as that's how she'd see her kids on
the outside of the enclosure.


Richard.

--
Quote from Futurama's Bender
"I'm so embarrased I wish everybody else was dead!"

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:09:26 +0100, Max Demian wrote:

Just shows the benefits of having a screen that needs to hold in a vacuum
(if that makes any sense).

"Hold in" a vacuum? By definition, it is the outside that is trying to get
in, not the inside that is trying to get out.