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Post May 12th, 2005, 7:28 pm

i want to know if my lcd screen will have a problem with image burning?
the computer is a laptop compaq presario R3000 and it is less then one year old
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Post May 12th, 2005, 7:28 pm

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Post May 13th, 2005, 1:21 pm

i doubt it but im sure if it does u can send it back to the store or company you got it from as long as its not ur fault

ive had my lcd for 2 years and noithing burned on it sooo im pretty sure ur safe
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Post May 13th, 2005, 1:28 pm

You can send it back to the store or company IF it's still under warranty...

Burn-in usually doesn't happen from 2 years of normal usage...

It's if you leave the same screen on the PC for long long periods of time for several weeks/months. I've got a regular 19" CRT here that I bought brand new just under 3 years ago. I only use it for one thing, monitoring servers, etc. The same screen is always up on the monitor, and after about 18 months of use, with the monitor turned off, that program's interface is lightly burned into the screen.

Whether that can happen or not with LCD, I don't know, possibly - but, for just general use, set a screensaver on a 5 minute delay, and don't even worry about it. I've got two laptops here. One's a couple of years old, the other's about 5 years old (both 14.1" TFT). Both screens look brand new.
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Post May 13th, 2005, 4:50 pm

oh ok i just leave it on for a few hours
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Post May 13th, 2005, 5:52 pm

To the best of my knowledge, and I'm pretty certain on this, you can't get burn in with LCD's. That's an old CRT thing and for the most part even CRT's no longer have that issue. The phospors on the CRT's were the culprit, but that appears to have been resolved, or at least greatly overcome. I leave my monitors on 24 and 7 with no screensavers and both have been running for close to two years with no burn in.
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Post May 13th, 2005, 5:58 pm

ok thank you ATNO/TW
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Post May 13th, 2005, 6:25 pm

Here. Just found what I pretty much knew was the case:

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What is burn-in?



The phosphors used in CRTs and plasma displays becomes less bright with usage. The phenomenon is a lot like “tire wear”. If you drive fast, the wear-per-mile increases, but there is some wear at any speed. The speed of a car corresponds to white in a TV image.



CRT burn-in used to be rare, but the demand for brighter images has made manufacturers less conservative. Now CRTs that have been showing a Windows desktop for a couple years will often show a lightly burned-in task bar when the screen is painted all white. The CRTs in big-screen TVs are pushed even harder, especially in the largest sets.



All CRT and plasma sets dim with usage. Making the screen age evenly is the user’s responsibility. The user must ensure that a fixed, unmoving shape is not displayed for many hours, or that shape will slowly become burned into the screen.



LCD, LCoS, and DLP sets do not suffer burn-in. (Some LCD and LCoS sets exhibit “image retention”, but it goes away in an hour or so.)


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Post May 13th, 2005, 7:10 pm

thanks once again ATNO/TW
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