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Apr 29, 2006, 5:01am

Eons ago I used to experience screen burn in... on old monochrome monitors
and then new vga and ega monitors... but after a while it stopped happening
on newer monitors and so I forgot all about it. I mean, screen savers were
invented for the sole purpose of preventing it... but the it became
obsolete. Huh...

....well, I have this 17 inch Viewsonic monitor that I've had for perhaps 3
years now... its an LCD and so far so good. Now... I have this 30+ inch
Viewsonic LCD theatre proportioned monitor that I got this past December...
and darn... well, under certain conditions I can see burned in buttons. I
thought maybe it was just that game and maybe they were just ghost images
from dialogs waiting to pop up at the right moment, so I took screen
shots... even rebooted the pc... and well, when I went into photoshop, the
ghost images were still there, and they stayed in the same exact spot, no
matter which way I scrolled the screenshots. The burnins were independant
of the screenshot, but would only show up under certain color conditions.
They do not show up on a white screen, but do show up on a dark blue
screen.... but not on a black screen.

Anyhow... not suggesting you don't buy one of these monitors, just making
you aware that screen burn in is not dead, but still a reality.

Apr 29, 2006, 2:33pm

wow I had just said that to my friend couple weeks ago....been a long time
since I bothered with screensavers but recently loaded some in because I
noticed that there is now a ghost image of the AW area where you type for
chat on this new monitor....

my monitor is on 24 hrs/day and usually aw is open in front. Mine is a KDS
17 inch. The two 11 inches I had were both over 10 yrs old before they would
get like this one has gotten in 2 years.....maybe the 17 inches? Is it
possible they burn faster the larger they are?

sweets

Apr 29, 2006, 3:46pm

I've had this happen with AW too, and only AW ... I noticed that I can see
MS Media Player (when it's in video mode playing streaming video) ... I can
see the MS Media screen *through* the AW screen even tho the AW screen is in
the forefront and the MS Media is in the background. I can rectify the
problem by minimizing the MS Media window ... but that's by no means a cure.
This has only been happening since the last upgrade or two in 3.6 ...
perhaps it needs to be submitted to chrispeg as a bug?

My monitor is a Sceptre x7 (17" flat screen), but that hasn't changed since
this occurance began happening ... what has changed is that I've got a new
graphics card ... an ATI All-in-wonder 9800 series.

LNH


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Apr 29, 2006, 4:18pm

I had a friend who had the same problem with an LCD screen. Said the
problem just went away slowly overtime. Couple weeks or so.

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