Image burn in

[pjr]

I'm puzzled because I've never seen this but maybe it's relatively common. On my Sony 19" Trinitron I recently noticed that a centered wallpaper image of a picture I've had on my desktop for more than a year has partially burned into my screen. I noticed it when I was recently in Microsoft Word and lines and outlines from the image were visible. I thought at first the white background in Word was semi-transparent, but when I removed the wallpaper, the image burn in remained.

Maybe I'm out of it, but I didn't realize if you had one image on a monitor for long time this might happen,particularly with newer montiors. I know at one time in the early 1990s it was typical, hence the advent of screen savers. I got away from using screen savers because of some nasty crashes I experienced with a few. I've used similar images on many other computers and have never seen this happen.

Is this common? What did I do wrong? Is it because it was a certain type of image (it was a jpeg)? Is it permanent? Is the montior defective? Please enlighten me.

pjr

 

[Workin']

Hopefully it wasn't porn

The type of image (.jpg, etc.) has nothing to do with it, that's for sure. The monitor doesn't know or care where the image is coming from.

You must have had that thing on 24/7 - usually people turn them off or have their power saving setting. Monitors still will burn in with long-term display. But not after a few days - months and months must go by. In the old days, 12 hours would fry the image onto the screen.

 

[Topochicho]

Same prob with screen savers, just have monitor shut off after a few hours. New monitors take a lot longer to burn in than older, but they still can.

 

[pjr]

Thanks for the information.

What surprises me is that I have an older Micron 17" monitor on another computer from 1995 and have used the same type of wallpaper with no screen saver and have never had this happen. Do you think it's more common with Trinitrons?

pjr

 

[aircooled]

I'm not a monitor expert.

The triniton picture is so crisp and clear that maybe the pixles are hotter than average monitors????? If that is the case, it makes since that the image is burned into your triniton and not your other monitor.

Just a guess...

 

[Gosharkss]

To my knowledge color monitors today are using the same (p22) medium short persistence phosphor that was used many years ago. Thus monitors today are just as susceptible to phosphor burn as they ever where. With every technology there is a trade off. One of the benefits of aperture grill technology is the fact that more or the electron beam current hits the phosphors. Thus Aperture grill monitors may be more susceptible to screen burn than shadow mask monitors.

I recommend you always use a screen saver, no matter what monitor you have.