It has been shown that, depite what your mother may say, touching yourself has no effect on a person’s eyesight. But, what about siting too close to the television? What about the computer screen? Does it make a difference as to whether it is a flat screen or CRT?
Overfocusing, over a long period of time, can degrade eyesight. Thus, sitting too close or watching with the lights off can have an effect.
Andrew “NO .SIG MAN” “Juan” Perron, yo!
Staying focused on the same close point for extended periods of time won’t damage the eye itself, as far as I know, but it can strain the muscles of your eyes, making it harder to focus on anything else. For this reason, when you’re reading, watching TV or using a computer, you should periodically focus on something far away to give your eye muscles a rest.
Oh, and no, it doesn’t matter if you’re focusing on a TV, flatscreen, book, or model airplane kit. What matters is keeping your eyes focused too close for too long.
Right, what I meant. ^_^v A book, a machine control panel, Superman’s rear… too focused = bad.
Andrew “NO .SIG MAN” “Juan” Perron, too much of anything = bad, in my experience.
What about the high amount of radiation that emanates from a monitor or TV set? Can’t those particles of radiation, over time, degrade and/or mutate someone’s eyes if they are exposed to it too much at close distances?
“flat screen or CRT?”
Aren’t flat screen tvs CRTs?
CRT = Cathode Ray Tube
Flat screens don’t use the big picture tubes.
FCM, flat screen and flat panel are two different things. My TV and computer monitors are all now flat-screen CRTs. . .the surface of the screen, instead of being curved like older screens, is flat. It’s still a CRT, but the viewing surface is flat.
A flat panel is an LCD screen without a picture tube.