Lifehacker: Is “Burn-In” Still an Issue on TVs and Monitors?
In spite of what they say, YES. It’s still an issue. If you’re a faithful blogger and leave your browser in the exact same spot on the screen all damned day long, day in, day out, for weeks years. LCDScrub helped me, saved me from having to replace the LCD on my older 24” iMac. Now I move my browsers around more, and have a more aggressive screensaver/sleep cycle on my system.
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Running a white desktop for an extended period of time seemed to help lighten some of the dark elements for my LCD. But do check out LCDScrub. It performed wonders, once I found the right pattern (they have multiples).
If anyone’s sensitive to light or animated patterns, however ... don’t let them in the same room while it’s running. I was ill at one point, and nearly passed out from looking at it.
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I’m seeing burn-in or persistence on all but one of my screens. iPad 1 and 2 have clear images of the safari top nav after browsing for a while and switching elsewhere. My 2005 Dell 20” lcd will show it pretty readily when I’ve got a web page up for a while. My 2009 24” iMac is showing it , and to top it off, the backlighting on the iMac is spatially inconsistent. I can’t rely on it for anything that’s color sensitive. None of it seems to burn in for more than a few minutes, but it’s still annoying.
The only monitor I have that’s not showing it is my 24” dell, I think it’s a 2407 high gamut. It’s always been a better display than the iMac internal.
Looking at this, I realize that I hang on to monitors for a long time.