Computer help: cats and monitor screens
cats and monitor screens
by spadeskingtx - 11/6/09 1:37 PMWill declawed cats clawing at a plasma tv damage the screen? What about LCD screens? I do not have one yet but sure eventually will want to know the same about LED screens.
If you have to ask...
by jeff_windows_team
- 11/6/09 2:10 PM
In reply to: cats and monitor screens by spadeskingtx
I don't know of any scientific experiments that have tested this 
but why risk it? It definitely can't be good for the TV.
I'll say yes
by Jimmy Greystone - 11/6/09 3:21 PM In reply to: cats and monitor screens by spadeskingtxI'll say yes, though obviously not as much as if they had claws. They could still scratch it, and in a kind of worst case scenario, cause it to tip over.
Either keep the TV out of the reach of the cats, or start training them from day 1 that they are NOT to go near the TV.
I asked my cats
by Porch-a-Geese - 11/6/09 3:45 PM In reply to: cats and monitor screens by spadeskingtxand they simply said , "Mew."
The facts . . .
by Coryphaeus - 11/6/09 4:28 PM In reply to: cats and monitor screens by spadeskingtxPlasma screens have a tempered glass face.
LCD screens have a plastic screen.
LED screens have plastic.
Buy plasma.
depends...
by d_adams - 11/6/09 6:22 PM In reply to: cats and monitor screens by spadeskingtxIf your TV has a glass front, then no, there's no way they could damage it. If it's got a plastic front, then it is MAYBE possible for the cats to press hard enough to damage something, but I doubt it. I mean, it would be difficult for a person to press that hard. So really, on the whole, I don't think any harm could come of it. I'd be much more worried about the cats tipping the tv over than about them damaging the actual pixels.
Just out of curiosity, do your cats actually claw at the tv screen often?? LOL!
has happened
by spadeskingtx - 11/6/09 9:23 PM In reply to: depends... by d_adamsI have a dvd of birds of the world I used to play on the old tube tv. They went nuts trying to catch those birds. They have been known when watching a baseball or basketball game with me to try and catch the ball, especially basketball. They are entertaining to watch, especially when they go after the birds. But I have not played that for them since the tube tv broke down and I bought the LCD.
I am not worried about tipping the tvs over because I can anchor them very soundly. Mainly concerned about the pixels. I have an LCD and a plasma, both 32 inch. I will be buying a larger tv this spring and thus will have an extra I could give them access to.
Just press here ...
by ChuckT - 11/7/09 12:10 AM In reply to: has happened by spadeskingtxIf you press on the illuminated surface, (it doesn't have to be hard, only about as hard as your cats are going to paw at it) does the displayed image contort or change color?
On some of my LCD panels it will, because of the liquid crystal substrate is pretty much left unprotected, and pressing the surface temporarily affects those pixels. DO NOT press very hard, or with a sharp item (like a fingernail) since you could possibly damage the substrate.
Then, just consider the abuse that your cats might inflict on your panel and you judge whether or not that much abuse is going to affect it. By the way, a sharp nail can damage, i.e. scratch, a glass surface too. Heck, I have glass panels in my bathroom shower that are damaged from years of water. (Actually damaged, it isn't soap scum, I have spent many hours in trying to re-polish the water damaged glass.)
On some of my LCD panels the colors do not change because they have a hard Plexiglas, or perhaps glass, covering surface. Plasma panels all have glass. The LCD panels you typically see now are really LCD panels with LED lights behind the LCD to illuminate it (vs. the florescent tubes more often used - but that is starting to change). What types of covering screens are on these "LED" panels (really just LCD with LED rear lights) depends upon the manufacturer.
thanks
by spadeskingtx - 11/7/09 10:31 AM In reply to: Just press here ... by ChuckTThanks chuck. That was very helpful and right on target for what I needed to know for future decision making.
(NT) Definitely bad for the cat
by Steven Haninger - 11/7/09 2:53 AM In reply to: cats and monitor screens by spadeskingtx
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