Burn-In on LCD?

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TechieSooner

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Sure enough I have an LCD machine that has burn-in.

I thought with LCDs this was not a problem?
 
I have heard of LCD image quality going down hill over time, but that usually comes from running the backlight real bright. Do you actually have image retention? On what kind of LCD?

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Dave
 
It's not permanent like with a CRT/ Plasma, it will go away faster if you leave the monitor off. or leave a blank screen up. It's called image persistance if you want to learn more about it.
 
OK I see...

For example, it is the start menu.

The whole bar is burned in (I can actually read some of the windows open down there!), that and some bubble notifications that XP does.

You think enabling the screen saver would fix this issue? During idle time, having a screen saver kick on would start to fix it (And during night- this would be all night long).
 
TechieSooner said:
OK I see...

For example, it is the start menu.

The whole bar is burned in (I can actually read some of the windows open down there!), that and some bubble notifications that XP does.

You think enabling the screen saver would fix this issue? During idle time, having a screen saver kick on would start to fix it (And during night- this would be all night long).
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Yes, you should still enable the screen saver, and power managment set to put the monitor in stand by as well to preserve the backlight service hours.
 
vick1000 said:
It's not permanent like with a CRT/ Plasma, it will go away faster if you leave the monitor off. or leave a blank screen up. It's called image persistance if you want to learn more about it.
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Is that true? Because I have screen LCD's so badly damaged by having the same old stuff displayed all the time that I would definitely consider them beyond repair.

A classic example is a CCTV monitoring application being run 24/7 on a screen. The video is displayed in 3x3 grid with some spacing between each video. I have seen screens that have been used in such a manner...and there's no way in hell that leaving a blank image or turning the screen off (even if for a whole year!!) it would fix the persistent/burned image.
 
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