What kind of Television do you have?

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Originally Posted by Beest

I've been adjusting the settings and keep turning down the brightness and backlight becasue it seems too bright to me, but I think that's just the way they are.

Screen life expectancy is mostly defined by its LEDs. An LED should work continuously for ten years (or 30 years if using it 8 hours a day). However, the LEDs change with age. Eventually they will dim or become more brownish with age. That degradation is defined, in part, by how bright they are used.

Dimming that TV will extend LED life expectancy. A default setting on most TVs is LEDs at brightest.

Long enough for true LED TVs to finally appear in the market. A true LED TV needs no backlighting.

Another factor I forgot to mention is reflection. In some locations, sunlight or reflections from outside can leave a glare on the screen. TVs are available with a screen that does not reflect that glare. But those screens are hard to find. The term for such TVs, unfortunately, has been forgotten.