Screen Saver Important ?

 

Gateway FHD2400 24" LCD Monitor.

Comments most welcome ...

 

Steve Giannoni wrote:

Some lcd monitors show a bit of burnin. Nothing burns,
but the result is the same.
So if you have the same software window up all the time,
and there are large periods of inactivity, a screensaver
can be useful, I use a nice aquarium with swimming fish.

If you see "burnin", there are small programs around to
exercise the bits with rapidly shifting on/off pixels,
which are said to cure the burnin,or sticky pixels.
Have never tried them.

 



    If it burned then learn to live with it as there is no software to shift
hardware anywhere.

    And I haven't seen any personal system with burnt monitor, but way back to
70's I used to work for manufactures making computer parts which they had
all monitor (monochorm) running 24/7 for years after years.  So all monitors
had the MENUs burnt to screens.

    And if you are talking about the DARK area on screen, then it's a
different story and it's not burnt.  One of the methods to lighten the
darken area is using magnetic (be careful or try not to have magnetic close
to TV screen else you may damage the screen, I never tried on LCD to know if
it will effect the LCD or not).
 

 

Joel wrote:

The OP asked about lcds, and sticky pixels ARE found.
Calling them sticky or burned is just semantics.
Exercizing LCD pixels might solve the broblem a little bit.

 



Not really, sticking pixels tend to be a hardware defect and not
something that is burnt in like happened on CRT monitors back in the
day.

That isn't to say that LCDs are entirely immune, theoretically if the
crystals hold one position for an extended period of time it's possible
they'll eventually form a preference for that position, but this is
quite technically different from a stuck pixel (be it light or dark)