LCD Burn In
 

About a year ago, a cable guy came here to do some work and warned me to not have the black bars on the sides of non hidef tv channels. He said it could cause burn in. Something I haven't seen in many years.

Yesterday, I noticed a black line on a hidef channel and thought it was just the recording. Today I see, my office hidef lcd tv has burn in.

Anyway, I have seen many products that claim they fix the problem but has anyone had this problem and fixed it. I understand that Macs have this problem more than any other monitor. There has to be a Mac owner that has had and fixed this problem.

I didn't think LCDs got burn in. I've never seen a LCD do this. What do Macs have to do with this?

Truthfully Cleo, it isn't anything against Macs. They just seem to have this problem.
http://lifehacker.com/software/lcds/...nin-146469.php

The odd thing is, burnin used to be a problem with the phosphors on the glass. LCD shouldn't have that. Though, there are TVs that do LCD to a phosphor, however, I really doubt that is what you have. I think what you might have is what is considered persistence.

An all white image displayed for a long time probably will get rid of it. It is funny that black, the absence of light is what caused your line. Or is it the edge of the 4:3 that actually is the burned in portion?

The only reason I can think an Apple could be more susceptible to this is that they really were the first to bundle LCDs rather than CRTs. Though, I have had laptops that have had burnin before screensavers were commonplace -- Pre windows, when you had a login screen.

Oh yeah, this is part of what it says. Seems to be about a year old.
"Apple has posted a helpful tutorial for removing image persistence on Apple LCDs"

I wonder how LCDs develop this problem since they don't have phosphorus to burn in?

It is the edge of the 4:3 that has the line. I am going to set it up tonight to just have white on the tv for about 13 hours to see what happens.

I read that the LCDs can get stuck.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=88343

Cool, at least apple has a fix.

Maybe windows machines don't run long enough continuously to cause burnin? haha

Jim take a look here :

http://www.jscreenfix.com/

It seems that just leaving the tv on a hidef channel would have the same basic result. I am going to try Apple's solution since they seem to have a lot of practice :) Sorry Cleo, that one was a little jab :)

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=88343

Oh wow.. I have a small non-apple LCD monitor with the mac mini PPC and cannot run any screen savers, after a time set the scene just gets black. And I am not able to calibrate a good monitor profile either, everything is dark, especially in the upper left corner.

And it doesn't support the Core image.

I think you can get used to everything after a while ;)