Apple Cinema Display: Dock silhouette / screen BURN IN

[mgpg89]

I've had my 20" ACD for about 2 years now and I'm starting to notice that the silhouette of my dock is getting burned into the screen !

I have a screen saver enabled and I always shut the monitor off when I'm not using it.


Has anyone experienced the same problem before?
If so, is there anything I can do? (i.e. demand a free repair?) or should I just live with it?

 

[surflordca]

I've had my 20" ACD for about 2 years now and I'm starting to notice that the silhouette of my dock is getting burned into the screen !

I have a screen saver enabled and I always shut the monitor off when I'm not using it.


Has anyone experienced the same problem before?
If so, is there anything I can do? (i.e. demand a free repair?) or should I just live with it?

Do you have Apple Care? If so it's worth a try...

 

[mgpg89]

Do you have Apple Care? If so it's worth a try...

No, don't have an AppleCare protection plan for the screen.

 

[Benjay]

This has recently started happening on my imac too. From what I've read, it's not actually burn in as such, but rather 'image persistance' think of it as temporary burn in. Luckily, the burned-in images on my screen seem to dissapear by themselves after a day or so. Try creating a plain white image and set it as your screensaver overnight, this helped shift mine a little.

 

[mgpg89]

This has recently started happening on my imac too. From what I've read, it's not actually burn in as such, but rather 'image persistance' think of it as temporary burn in. Luckily, the burned-in images on my screen seem to dissapear by themselves after a day or so. Try creating a plain white image and set it as your screensaver overnight, this helped shift mine a little.

didn't notice it until a few days ago so i wouldn't know if it's temporary or not. hope you're right though!

thanks

 

[techound1]

I set my desktop backgrounds to rotate every minute and my dock is set to see-thru, which seems to help.

 

[mgpg89]

I set my desktop backgrounds to rotate every minute and my dock is set to see-thru, which seems to help.

Even if I did that (which I'm not even considering) that will still cause your menu bar to have the same effect on your screen, as it's there permanently.