I THOUGHT LCDs DIDNT SUFFER BURN IN? WAS I WRONG? READ.

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cwhite86720

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so my monitor is maybe a year old. just a 17" flat panel dell monitor. i never left the screen on for long periods of time and it would turn off after a few minutes of inactivity.

now, when im on the desktop, i see horrible burn in in the top left. after studyin the pattern, i found that the burn in was a copy of the buttons on mozilla firefox.

One, could someone explain how LCDs get burn in, i was told they dont suffer burn in.

And Two, is there a reason firefox caused burn in, i actually use IE more... im so confused.

And Three, is there anything to do to fix burn in?

Thanks guys.
 
Mine get's the same firefox dongle thingies burnt in all the time.. i dunno why it happens but mine go away after awhile so i don't know why yours would need fixin'..

edit: not burnt.. whatever you would call it.
 
Happens to me too... goes away if I leave the screen completely off for a while.

I have an old 15" dell from around 2002.
 
It doesn't matter if the screensaver is on. Those firefox thingies stay on the screen in the exact same position for as long as you have it up. If i surf the net for a couple hours(ehh.. bored) you get the burn in thing. So a screensaver wouldn't work in our situation.
 
well, i wonder what causes it, then

i wonder if the persistant image is a function of the pixels themselves becoming stuck, or if it's a burn-in on the plastic screen itself...

very strange
 
It happens on Plasma TVs as well.
The other day, we had a bad snow storm... (western NY)

Then you know how they run those tickers on the bottom of the screen, that show things that are cancelled?
We had some people come in saying how the ticker burned the image on the bottom of his TV.
So it happens I guess, but bleh...
I've had this LCD for years, and never had it happen to me once.
It never really gets shut off.
The computer gets shut off, but monitor stays on.
 
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