Question on Computer monitors.

[Chipstien]

Can you burn images into a LCD flat screen like you can on the old tube monitors. I want to turn off my screensaver.

 

[Whitmore]

Chip, we have lots and lots of flatscreans at work and yes if you run the same display on them after a year or so it will burn in.



cheers, Kevin

 

[illflem]

2nd that. The local US Forest Service was giving away 174 flat screens a month ago. Info said they all had blank spots burned into them. I'm a sucker for a deal and got two and tried them out, talk about a PITA scorolling around the blanks. They'll now be used for data entry only, no internet or mail.



I've also heard, don't remember where so it's just heresy, that a flat screen doesn't last as long as a tube type.

 

[Chipstien]

Oh well, looks like the screensaver stays on.

 

[illflem]

Down load my favorite screensavers here

http://www.synthesoft.com/

 

[nickleinonen]

LCD displays can not burn in. CRT moniters [be it curved or flat] can burn in. and plasma can burn in too...



there is no materal that is consumed in the making of an image on a LCD display. on a crt or plasma display, the phosfer on the screen surface gets excited by an electron beam. when the image burns in, that area has been excited to the point of it no longer being able to light up with the same brightness as the area around it. on a LCD, there are little liquid crystals triads that get excited by electricity to give off color one of 3 colors [red, green or blue] if all are on you have white, all off black, and mix's of the colors and their frequency will give you all the other colors. those LCD moniters do have a backlight that can burnout [with no back lighting, expect a very dark image. kinda like looking at a slide, with no backlighting]



so if you are wanting a true LCD display [thin kind, not those flat screen CRT's] you don't need to worry about burn in. , just backlight burnout



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most of the info i know comes from crt and lcd data/home theater projectors. crt tubes for projectors are a lor of $$$. usually around one fifth the price of the projector [60k projector, 10-12k for a crt tube]. lcd lamps are not cheap either... 500-2500 cdn each



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to make tv's and computer moniters last longer, keep the contrast and brightness down. the higher the brightness/contrast setting, the shorter the expected life. crt tubes have an average lift of 20k hours. at full brightness/contrast, you can easily take off 3,000 hours. at lower settings [±60% on both] you can add like 5,000 hours to that life...