Flat Panel LCD Burn in???!!!

YouTube · Post by **James Steele** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 2:14 am

I have a Hyundai 17" flat panel monitor and I have recently noticed that it's suffering image burn in. I'm blown away. I thought this didn't happen any more, but when I have just a blank desktop bkgrd filling up the screen, I can part of the menu bar burned into the screen and even in the upper left faintly see DP's transport controls. Color me angry!! It's not like I've left this on for days. I thought this shouldn't happen.

James Steele

MrVideo · Post by **MrVideo** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 5:38 pm

If theses are true LCD displays, they CAN't have burn in. The only other possibility, (However impossible as well) would have to be residual images in the video card.

LCD display are LED's of different color turning off and on to display a particular color. There is no way to permanently impose an imagfe onto this technology?

Spikey Horse · Post by **Spikey Horse** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 8:37 pm

MrVideo wrote:If theses are true LCD displays, they CAN't have burn in. The only other possibility, (However impossible as well) would have to be residual images in the video card.

LCD display are LED's of different color turning off and on to display a particular color. There is no way to permanently impose an imagfe onto this technology?

maybe it's a TFT display? - isn't that different from an LCD display? is that really true that an LCD display is full of tiny LED's ? .... genuine question, I have no knowlege of the technology used flatscreens (having grown up using a TV as a computer monitor it still all seems like magic to me!) All I know is an LED is a light emiting diode and LCD is liquid crystal display and didn't that technology replace LED's in the main back in the 80's with digital watches calculators etc?..... although LED watches are quite fashionable again now...... and TFT is thin film technology (I think...)

.....personally I use LSD which means you don't even even need to use a monitor to see the music....

Sorry James this is of no help to your original query...

edit--- just realised last reply is from someone who calls himself 'mrVideo'

so the thing about LEDs is probably right!

MrVideo · Post by **MrVideo** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 5:23 am

You make a great point. LED's are light emitting displays whereas the Liquid Cyrstal is a color emitting device that requires a "backlight" for the viewer to see the color. Either way, they are not retentive devices like the phospor on a CRT so there should never be residual image information left after several days, weeks or months of showing that image.

Now, whether or not it is possible to force a memory of the Liquid Crystal device? I still don't think so, but our admin says he has this issue??

qo · Post by qo » Wed Dec 14, 2005 11:31 am

part of the menu bar burned into the screen and even in the upper left faintly see DP's transport controls

Guys, the problem here is not the display. The problem is that James uses DP so much that DP's menus are burned into his retinas!

methezer · Post by **methezer** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:53 pm

Have you tried shaking the monitor...

you know...

like an etch-a-sketch?

YouTube · Post by **James Steele** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 7:40 pm

Damn you and the etch-a-sketch suggestion!!! I tried it... LOL (Just kidding folks!)

Weirdest thing... the burn in is gone. But I swear... for a couple of days it was there, clear as day. In the very top edge of the screen I could make out some of the menu items. I don't know what happened, but it is gone now and I am thankful. Maybe disconnecting it from the power or turning it off helped, because there was definitely residual "something" on the screen and I was freaked thinking I'd have to dig out receipts and try and deal with Hyundai to get a replacement. Weird!!!