Is thatĪ permanent problem? I’m not sure. Screens when I move a window that’s been in one place too long. What I can tell you is that I have seen ghosting on my LCD (I suspect a more knowledgeable reader or two will chime in, in theĬomments). I don’t know just how serious a burn-in problem exists with LCD screens Now, I’ll be totally honest here and say that, quite frankly, But that doesn’t mean that they aren’t susceptible to something Have the glass surface on which the image can be unintentionally burned LCDs naturally use a different technology for display – they don’t With an always-changing image on the screen, burn-in was Too long a ghost of that image would become permanently burned into the “If a picture was displayed on the screen for

Replace it, typically with other images, or in the case of desktopĬomputers, animations like flying toasters, pipes or lately even They would remove that image that was displayed 99% of the time and Some period of inactivity when presumably no one was using the display. Screen typically had exactly one unchanging image on it 99% of the Registers, ATM machines or other single-purpose devices where the Matched what was displayed on the screen. The monitor completely off, and still see a vague, faint image that Would become permanently burned into the screen itself. Picture was displayed on the screen for too long a ghost of that image Look like old TVs) were subject to something called “burn in”. Old “CRT” monitors (the ones based on big glass picture tubes that In fact, I use a couple of specific settings related to that, and

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