What to do about Image burn-in

[Doboji]

So I have the dreaded image burn-in.... is there NO WAY to get that repaired?... even replace the CRTs?... Anyone know anything about this?

-Max

 

[So]

Exorcism....

THE POWER OF GOD COMPELS YOU!

 

[woowoo]

You can burn the entire screen white for awhile, it may help.
Replacing the CRT's should fix it.
Why do you think it wont?

 

[Brutuskend]

The only way I know of would be to replace the Picture tube.

Cost effective? I doubt it.

 

[PowerMacG5]

The image is burned on to the phosphorescent layer, so to fix it would require a lot of taking apart, money, and time. I would say it's more cost effective to get a new monitor.

 

[Doboji]

Originally posted by: woowoo
You can burn the entire screen white for awhile, it may help.
Replacing the CRT's should fix it.
Why do you think it wont?

I've heard three things...

1 burn it white
2 burn an inverse image
3 let rapidly moving images stay on the screen for a while

Which is it?

-Max

 

[Amorphus]

Originally posted by: Doboji

Originally posted by: woowoo
You can burn the entire screen white for awhile, it may help.
Replacing the CRT's should fix it.
Why do you think it wont?

I've heard three things...

1 burn it white
2 burn an inverse image
3 let rapidly moving images stay on the screen for a while

Which is it?

-Max

Letting a flat grey image run on the CRT for awhile helps.

 

[BD2003]

It depends on how its burned in. Burn-in is nothing but unever phosphor wear. Therefore, you have to even out the wear to the rest of it.

If its burn in from 2:35:1 movies, then you have to burn in the bars at the bottom. Can be a bit tough to do such a thing, but a ton of fiddling in photoshop with tv-out, could do the trick.

If its from a station, logo though youre screwed.

Personally, my tv has burn in on the sides, because the idiots that owned it before me couldnt get the aspect ratio control right on the STB. Its been a bitch to find something to line up to those bars.

And letting a flat grey image run on the CRT will do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Neither will rapidly moving images. Technically you want to run an exact inverse image, but if its from black bars, the white IS the inverse image.