We've had the opportunity to sit down and interview Adam Leader, Product Manager of Microsoft TV Photo Viewer to follow up on our review. Here is a excerpt:

ActiveWin.com: Why does the User's Guide state that it is not recommended to leave an image on the television screen for an extended period of time?

Adam Leader: Although we don't have any firm evidence that leaving a single image on your monitor will cause damage (like on old computer monitors) we thought it would be better to err on the side of safety and recommend against this practice. We never saw any 'burn-in' of images on any of our test televisions, even ones that kept the same image for an extended time. Again, this was more of a “better safe than sorry” scenario.

ActiveWin.com: Was there outside testing done similar to Microsoft software "beta testing”?

Adam Leader: We did a beta test-as I said before it was a pretty typical development effort and beta tests and other ways of getting customer feedback are standard parts of making products at Microsoft. We tested the product with hundreds of beta users to insure that this was the best design of the product possible.