Screen savers are no longer necesary, LCD's fundamentally don't have the issue, and new CRT's have improved so much that it'd only be a problem if you NEVER used your computer. They're only really needed on older crt's, so old that almost nobody uses them anymore. The only thing is plasma tv's, which I've heard get bad burn-in and should always have a fully active screen-saver.

But overall, they've become more of a "cool thing" than a functional tool.

I have to agree that screen savers have taken the path of ascetically pleasing versus functionality.
Lately I've noticed a lot of dreams being converted to screensavers and I've found myself wondering the same thing as Jafo.
While I don't see anything wrong with the conversion and was thinking of doing the same with some of my dreams, I find myself in the position of not wanting to convert any that do not actually perform the task as named. I do have a few dreams that completely change every pixel so I would consider these to fit the bill but at the same time I find myself wondering why bother, since I never use a screen saver.

My question is, do enogh people use screensavers to make it worth converting them?

The Baron is indeed the Master!

Hey bud, I have a couple of questions on the latest version of DreamScreenSaver.  I have a two adapter, three monitor setup and your program does something quite unique.  Normal .dreams play the same on monitors 1 and 2 (primary adapter), and don't show up on monitor 3 (secondary adapter), which is a stardock issue I know.  But when I do it with your program, I get two interesting results...

1) My desktop icons are kept on the screensaver image, leaving those pixels unchanged during the screensaving.  Which, essentially means that it runs just like a .dream, haha.  I'm not sure that's what you meant. 

2) The "Screencap" you take at the outset on my setup STRETCHES/SHIFTS out of proportion so that everything slides to the right (towards monitor 3).  The really interesting thing about this is that the monitor 2 dream now overlaps onto monitor 3!  This means that, whatever display routine you are using, is fully capable of spanning all three monitors with the same animated video image.  I was just wondering if there was some way you could tap that to give us the ability to play a single .dream or a single screensaver across a three monitor/two adapter desktop? 

Or perhaps you could tell Stardock how to do it? 

Just curious.  Thanks. 

Left monitor is primary. On this system, left is 22" 1650x10f0, center is 24" 1920x1200, and right is 22" 1680x1050

Vista is 64 bit Ultimate

Deskscapes would be latest versions from Stardock and Microsoft (fully updated via Impulse w/betas)

I hope this helps.