I saw a 1080p LCD today with an image burnt into the screen...

[aphex]

I thought this didn't happen on LCD's?

Sharp 46" 1080p LCD

There was a logo clearly burnt into the display, on any black scene it was clearly noticeable...

 

[EvilYoda]

But...but...Best Buy tells me it can't happen!?

Silly people...just ask them why it supposedly happens to plasmas and not LCDs and see the wheels spin.

<--Does marketing events at BB every now and then

 

[KLin]

Image persistence. It happens.

 

[Shawn]

Yeah it happens, but it usually goes away after a while.

 

[JBT]

Originally posted by: Shawn
Yeah it happens, but it usually goes away after a while.

agreed.

 

[Mrfrog840]

Its not image burn in BTW its called image retention if you would like to be politically correct

 

[ethebubbeth]

Happened on my laptop LCD when I accidentally left it at a login screen during vacation.

Setting your background to all white will help to clear it up after a while.

EDIT: Grammar. I need to stop posting in the late hours of work.

 

[zerocool84]

Originally posted by: JBT

Originally posted by: Shawn
Yeah it happens, but it usually goes away after a while.

agreed.

so does it go away with regular use or do you have to do something special to make it go away?

 

[xalos]

It will go away on its own. However long the image was there is how long it will take to disappear.

 

[cubby1223]

I've seen a Viewsonic lcd monitor go bad almost immediately with a burn-in. And it's never going away.

I still wonder how so many other monitors avoid having the taskbar burned in.

 

[xalos]

Originally posted by: cubby1223
I've seen a Viewsonic lcd monitor go bad almost immediately with a burn-in. And it's never going away.

I still wonder how so many other monitors avoid having the taskbar burned in.

Auto-hide the taskbar.

 

[NaOH]

Originally posted by: aphex
I thought this didn't happen on LCD's?

Sharp 46" 1080p LCD

There was a logo clearly burnt into the display, on any black scene it was clearly noticeable...

It happens on CRTs, LCDs, plasma..etc

 

[Apex]

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
But...but...Best Buy tells me it can't happen!?

Silly people...just ask them why it supposedly happens to plasmas and not LCDs and see the wheels spin.

<--Does marketing events at BB every now and then

Amen.

 

[IGBT]

Originally posted by: Shawn
Yeah it happens, but it usually goes away after a while.

..:thumbsup: LCD's recover. Plasmas don't.

 

[pennylane]

Originally posted by: IGBT

Originally posted by: Shawn
Yeah it happens, but it usually goes away after a while.

..:thumbsup: LCD's recover. Plasmas don't.

Plasmas recover, too.

 

[randay]

Originally posted by: IGBT

Originally posted by: Shawn
Yeah it happens, but it usually goes away after a while.

..:thumbsup: LCD's recover. Plasmas don't.

you must work for best buy.

 

[JBT]

on a side note. Most TV stations are switching to trasparent logo's which greatly reduces the risk of burn in.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
But...but...Best Buy tells me it can't happen!?

Silly people...just ask them why it supposedly happens to plasmas and not LCDs and see the wheels spin.

<--Does marketing events at BB every now and then

I had a rep tell me today that Plasmas have less of a burn-in problem than CRTs.

A few days ago a rep asked me what I'd be using my tv for, and when I said OTA digital, he told me that it won't look as good as the digital cable signal they had spliced among all the sets (he was trying to sell me cable service with my tv).

 

[Apex]

Originally posted by: SagaLore
I had a rep tell me today that Plasmas have less of a burn-in problem than CRTs.

Correct. CRTs tend to burn in more than this generation of Plasmas. This is mostly due to the improvements in Plasma technology, but also with anti burn-in technology (like pixel shifting).

Originally posted by: SagaLore
A few days ago a rep asked me what I'd be using my tv for, and when I said OTA digital, he told me that it won't look as good as the digital cable signal they had spliced among all the sets (he was trying to sell me cable service with my tv).

Did you ask him to share some of the stuff he was smoking?

 

[sao123]

so explaine to me how LCD's can experience image retention? I ttoo thought it was impossible for LCD's & DLP's.

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

Originally posted by: sao123
so explaine to me how LCD's can experience image retention? I ttoo thought it was impossible for LCD's & DLP's.

This might be a good place to start.

 

[biggestmuff]

Originally posted by: aphex
I thought this didn't happen on LCD's?

Sharp 46" 1080p LCD

There was a logo clearly burnt into the display, on any black scene it was clearly noticeable...

what logo was it?

Edit: I noticed the taskbar burnt into my Dell 1905 panel about three weeks ago.

 

[DivideBYZero]

I wonder what the screen saver function is for...

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: JBT
on a side note. Most TV stations are switching to trasparent logo's which greatly reduces the risk of burn in.

How about they go back to no logo at all during programming like they did for the first 40 some years of broadcasting? Another thing they do that really pi$$es me off is superimpose those active ads for upcoming programming across the bottom of the screen obscuring the video and any writing that is being displayed from the actual program you are currently watching.