Screen auto-dims (after idle time)

Is there any way to turn off this 'feature'? It's very frustrating whenever I'm trying to watch a movie (say from nova online) or anything like that, I'd rather it be entirely in my control. (this is more than just environmental light detection, it's just randomly going dim after about 30 seconds of not being used.....very frustrating.

System Preferences>Energy saver>Sleep>Move the sliders to the right.
System Preferences>Energy Saver>Options>Uncheck the "Automatically Reduce Brightness" box.
System Preferences>Desktop & ScreenSaver>ScreenSaver>Move the slider to the right.

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Yes the screen will still dim, BTW this is to save battery and prevent screen burning.

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If you leave the laptop untouched, it will auto dim the screen.
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From the news page here...
http://xlr8yourmac.com/
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A note on that here - http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/Chameleon_SSD_Optimizer.html
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http://xlr8yourmac.com/archives/sep13/091313.html#10.8.5SleepEjectTip
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I am seeing in the log after enabling the debug flags that message bridge intermittently stops refreshing the connection without logging further info and causing a production failure.Bridge is forwarding the message from WLS 8.1..5 DQ to the remote MQ 6.0 queue.
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Dear Kenneth
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