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Craazy monitor burn in

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jimmy43

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Hi guys, I just started using my boss's 23" cinema display and. ..well check this out:


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(taken on my iphone. that gray area is 100% solid, no transparency).
Well now i know why he gave it to me ..
This effect only takes a few minutes to appear. Not hours, or days - minutes. Crazy?! is this normal?😱
 
I'm having the same problem with a 23" Apple Cinema Display. I leave a window up for only a couple minutes and it burns in. Same with icons on the desktop. Anyone know what the issue is?
 
Wow. Can't believe that's happening. I use a 5 year old 20" Apple cinema display at work and still runs fine. It's LCD though and they usually don't have burn-in problems. Is the 23" an LCD?
 
Yeah, it's an LCD. It's not "burn-in" per se, but it looks exactly like it on the screen. I've heard it referred to as "image retention." Whatever, it sucks, and I'm wondering if I can permanently fix it or if the screen is shot
 
I've had a bunch of LCD monitors over the years, and they've all developed this problem as they've aged. It seems like it actually becomes increasingly worse with time, but the "burn-in" is never permanent. Still, it is kind of annoying.
 
This might help:

Prevention/treatment
Image persistence can usually be reversed by allowing the liquid crystals to return to their relaxed state. In other words, turning off an LCD display for hours or days will relax the crystals and eliminate the image retention. For PC monitors, it is also ideal to rotate desktops, and hide away elements on the screen which normally would be displayed perpetually (like the taskbar in Microsoft Windows or the Dock in Mac OS X). The usage of a screensaver that has a constantly changing image can help as well.

Another approach to removing LCD image persistence is to first create a solid white image and display the image as a screensaver covering the entire display area for an extended period of time, which operates the pixels in a uniform ON state rather than an OFF state as with turning the display off.
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Source. Hope it helps. 🙂
 
I've had this happen on several of my LCDs, though not to the degree of jimmy43's monitor. If still under warranty, I try to get it replaced.
 
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