LCD Monitor
 

I just bought a LCD monitor, 19" 2 ms response, an was wondering how would an LCD monitor handle being on 24/7. I only turned my computer off once in a while so was wondering if this could hurt it.

SH4 looks AWSOME compared to my 6 yr old 17" TUBE monitor. Crystal clear, water takes on a new look, One type of water looked plastic B4 and explotions are much better.

it shouldn't be too much of a prob, as there's no phosphorus coated screen to burn images in

I leave mine on 24/7 (both at home and work). They are set to go into sleep after 30 minutes of idle time, but that's more to minimize energy use and maximize the life span of the back light. In my experience, that's the weak link in LCDs - the flourescent tube eventually dies, but on desktop displays, that's usually only after many years of use. My Apple studio display at work is about 3 years old and is still very bright. Hopefully more and more, LEDs will replace the use of flourescent tubes - they use less energy, last longer and run cooler.

LCD
 

I have my computer on 24/7, but turn off monitor.
[19" Synaps]

I have the monitor set to energy saver. It will just turn it off after 25 minutes of idle time. LCD is a world of difference from CRT.....for me anyway. Not only that you get more room on your desk now.

LCD
 

I have a 19" Dell LCD at work and if I leave it on it will burn in an image that can be seen for weeks in a light-colored background color. For instance, if I am editing a photo it will drive me crazy. Unlike a CRT, this burn-in is not permanent, and goes away in a week or so if I turn the thing off every night. I now turn it off every night and have had no problems unless I forget.

So, although burn-in is actually more of a problem with the LCD, unlike the CRT it is not a permanent condition and is only a nuisance for a couple of weeks at most. This may vary with individual products and monitors. It sure is a problem with mine!

But I love my LCD and don't care if it's black when I'm not around to look at it. :up:

Screensavers are for chumps now. Just having your PC turn the monitor off after 15 minutes or so of idle saves power and prevents burn in... something I've never seen in a CRT or LCD television or monitor actually.

I thought image burn-in issues had been engineered out of most CRT's (not to mention the more recent LCD) like a decade ago.

Aren't modern screen savers more just novelty items nowadays?

If you want to burn an image into a CRT you're going to have to really work on it today. I routinely leave mine on and have no trace. Maybe an extremely bright and high contrast image continuously displayed for months would result in some minimal burn-in.

LCD's seem to be a different story. They claim no burn-in, but they also seem to be playing semantic games. "Yeah, that happens, but it ISN"T burn-in. Burn-in is permanent degradation of the display. This isn't that." I've seen several screens suffer from my symptoms of a persistent image or pattern lasting weeks. It is reported that the remedy is turning the screen completely off overnight for several nights in a row (on mine it took almost 2 weeks to eliminate the image). Also, the display of a moving screensaver using substantially the entire color pallet which continuously changes color and location of lit pixels similar to the Plasma screensaver is reported to fix the problem over time.

Hey did you happen to notice in MoBo I programmed the unit graphic menus to mimic a burned-in CRT display? :rotfl:

Thanks for all ur replies....

Another ?.... How do you setup ur display? On my LCD I have a choice of sRGB, 9300k, 6500k, 5400k or User Color ( manual set RGB ). I find sRGB an 9300k too bright an use 6500k with brightness an contrast @ 50%, but some games are too dark using these setting. Even using sRGB or 9300k some games are still too dark an have to CRACK up the games gamma to see. Games such as COD2 rooms are way to dark if I don't crank the gamma.

If you have a good video card and program it came with
 

Let the video card help you set up the monitor so that it looks and run's at it's best. I have a 21" Sony Trinitron Multiscan E540 Tube type and it even helped bring some new life back to it so I can just imagine what it would do to an LCD. Have an LCd on the other PC and side by side the both look pretty damm good but only after I let the video card set up my old monitor.

My computer is on all day, every day, unless its hurricane day.

Then it's on the next day, when the generator is hooked up!

My teamspeak server musnt' have down time!

Had my LCD 2 or 3 years, 19 samsung, I only have 1 dead pixel, no other problems.

One word....GLOBAL WARMING.....damn, I mean two words.

Seriously though guys, try and arrange it so that you turn as many things off that you can. Even leaving something on standby is a waste of energy.

And hey, if you don't care about Global Warming, fair enough, but do it anyway, for your kids at least.

This is where the German language is truly superior for its ability to cram dozens of words together into a single monster. I've got one word for you: And the word is two lines long! Ah the flexibility!

Forget about global warming, don't you have something better to do with your money than spend it to run something you're not using? And your computer is likely not your worst offender. How about all those wall wart transformers you leave plugged in 24/7 that aren't powering anything right now. Well, they don't know they're not doing anything useful and are gleefully sucking money out of your wallet right now.

Even if the earth warms, as it was warmer around the year 1000 when Greenland was green, there is no disaster there. But shouldn't we act in our own best interest? Your income does nothing to make you prosperous. Your wise use of whatever assets or income come your way determines that. Conservation makes sense from a personal point of view and makes sense from a societal point of view without necessity any apocalyptic paranioa.

Mount Pinatubo in its eruption emitted more pollutants than humans in all of history, and did it in a couple of months. Any climactic effects were temporary. Apocalyptic paranoia is a phenomenon of left and right. For the first Earth Day, the apocalypse of the day was Global Cooling: coming of the second Ice Age. Chicken Little is always entertaining, no matter whose Chicken Little is squawking at the time!:rotfl:I remember my buddies saying "The election of Clinton is the end of the US!" Hold it, they're saying it now!:lol: Most entertaining!