# "TV lamps"Prevented Blindness?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-lamps-prevented-blindness/678591>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 12, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-lamps-prevented-blindness/678591 "2014-01-12T17:27:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-lamps-prevented-blindness/678591/21 "2014-01-13T16:20:00Z")

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if you watch tv in the dark what happens when you turn off the tv? you trip over the coffee table.

those were to provide room navigation safety.

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**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-lamps-prevented-blindness/678591/22 "2014-01-13T16:33:40Z")

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> [@Pixel\_Dent](#):
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> The only thing they found that had a statistical affect on eyesight was reading in moving vehicles and even that was very minor.

I prefer drivers to put down the book, personally.

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**Author:** ![jrsone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jrsone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrsone)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-lamps-prevented-blindness/678591/23 "2014-01-13T19:27:22Z")

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I believed this throughout my childhood and I’m only 29.

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**Author:** ![Alba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea666f/32.png) [@Alba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alba)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-lamps-prevented-blindness/678591/24 "2014-01-15T12:32:55Z")

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**Randolph, Pixel Dent** , thanks. I still believed that. Actually everybody in my student house circa 2005 believed this. This will change my TV and reading habits a bit.

> [@DrFidelius](#):
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> I blame my receding hairline and expanding midsection to the CRTs I worked in front of during the '90s through about 2011. Must be something about the devices; it couldn’t have anything to do with the fact that I have passed 50.

😃

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