LCD Burn In

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Erasmus354

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Ok I have about a one and a half year old Dell 2005fpw. Lately I have noticed that it gets really bad screen burn in. I usually have a window open most of the time (either internet, pdf, word, or some other uninteresting thing). I have noticed when I play full screen videos I can see an outline of where the window is.

It seems that this problem has been getting more and more pronounced as the monitor gets older. Frankly it is starting to get a bit annoying. Is there anything I can do to stop this from happening? I thought that burn-in was only a problem with plasmas.....
 
Happy Hopping said:
you can't have burn in w/ LCd. Show us a photo
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Ummm, yes you can. It is only semi-permanent though. If I turn off the LCD for 12 hours it goes away. However I don't want to turn off the LCD for 12 hours so I can watch Heroes without a line going down the middle of the screen where the border of my browser window once was.
 
Erasmus354 said:
Ummm, yes you can. It is only semi-permanent though. If I turn off the LCD for 12 hours it goes away. However I don't want to turn off the LCD for 12 hours so I can watch Heroes without a line going down the middle of the screen where the border of my browser window once was.
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Technically its Image Retention and not Burn In. Burn in is permanent and Image retention is not. Also CRT's and Plasmas can have burn in since they use heat to stimulate the phosphurs where as an LCD doesnt use heat but rather electircal current to excite the crystals. When LCD's get image retention the crystals get stuck in a certain state because they have been there so long but do not actually "burn" like CRT's and Plasmas.
 
we have hardcore burn-in on our work PC's here on the nurses stations because the nurses ALWAYS have windows open.
practically to the point of replacing them, its so bad.
 
I just got in my HP 2065 (to compliment the Dell 3007 I also have on order), and
on the first page of the owners manual is a warning message on burn-in (which
is what HP calls it at the beginning of the warning) saying that display of a static
image for more than 12 hours at a time can cause damage to the screen (although
they don't say it's permanent).

Further into the warning they then say that "Image retention is a condition that
may occur on all LCD screens".

So the basic recommendation is don't leave any stationary image on your screens
for more than half a day. Setting your screensaver to "blank" after 1hr (or less)
of non-use is probably a good idea.

CAMster
 
first of all, can we see some photos?

Secondly, the situation only occur when the image is still at the same spot for 12 hr. I honestly can't recall that ever happen to me.

I have use computer consecutively for more than 12 hr. However, the display application obviously has moved many times w/i that 12 hr. Name an instance that you have a still image application and never move it for 12 hr.? The only time it can occur is when you forget to turn off the computer and a software is loaded and you are not using that software. And even so, doesn't the LCD goes to sleep after 20 min.?
 
Happy Hopping said:
I have use computer consecutively for more than 12 hr. However, the display application obviously has moved many times w/i that 12 hr. Name an instance that you have a still image application and never move it for 12 hr.?
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I can name one: coding. Granted, it's not every day, but there have been cases where i'll have code windows open for hours and hours. It's worse with multiple monitors, since the code stays open on one screen while i test on the other.

That said, you can probably avoid the retention by moving your windows around now and then, just to shake things up (so to speak).
 
I haven't done programming for years. But in the days that I used to, surely I don't do it 12 hr. in a row
 
My old dell monitor got the AIM logo burned in at the bottom of the screen. I can turn the monitor off for a long while and it'll still be there.
 
Where I work, we had this wire mesh bender machine that was controlled by a 80386 computer and had a LCD screen on the main control board, and that screen had burn in or whatever it was called so bad, you couldn't hardly make any sense of what was being displayed on it anymore. If I were to guess, that screen probably had around 3yrs of being constantly powered on, displaying pretty much the same screen minus a few numeric values of course.
 
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