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Originally Posted by aaronblood
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?
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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.