LCD burn in?

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devil22

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I have a ~30 inch LCD display, that doubles as a TV and second computer monitor. I just noticed while watching the news, an outline of the car I use for my wallpaper. :( I thought LCDs didn't surfer burn in? And I've only had it for a year, this sucks. I don't suppose there's any way to get rid of the image or anything to do? I did disable the screen saver because it was popping up during movie playback and the screen power down because recent nvidia drivers caused aero to crash requiring a DWM restart after the screen was shut off, because I had heard LCDs didn't burn in. oh well.

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I found some stuff in google, that says you can try turning off the display for a few days or using a all white picture as a background and that may fix it, guess I'll try that. shrug.
 
I managed to "burn in" an image of World of Warcraft on my 2405 maybe 12-16 months ago - wasn't too bad a burn though because I think just leaving it off a while cured it. I know I played with leaving a white image up for a long time too so between the two things you should be able to cure it.
 
same thing happened with my sis apple disply and a dell monitor i left on at work by mistake,
after emailing apple there told my sis to leave a white screen saver on, tried it for a hour and still nothing then left it for around 3hrs and everything was sorted......
this happened last summer on the apple and only afew weeks ago with the dell think its caus of the heat monitors heating up too quick..........
 
It's not really burn-in, but image persistence. Burn-in is permanent, and is typically associated with phosphor screens like CRTs. You should be able to fix the image persistence by turning your display off for a few hours. Setting your display to go into power save mode after 10-20 minutes will help prevent this in the future.
 
You can also help prevent or lower the effect by circulating air near the LCD to keep it cooler.
 
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