Is CRT Burn-In Still a Problem?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday December 18, 2002 @12:31PM from the conventional-wisdom-vs-real-life-results dept.

coloth asks: "We've all been told for many years that monitor burn-in is a thing of the past, that CRTs use a different kind of phosphor now, and that screensavers are more toys than practical safeguards. After a few minutes with Google, nearly every PC advice site I found said as much. Well, I just realized tonight that I've got burn-in from the Seti@Home screensaver on my Dell P991. I took a picture with my digital camera. (disregard the bar of interference) I added the arrows with PhotoShop and enhanced the image a bit, but the burn in is clear. Here is the image of the "screensaver" to compare the pattern. Is my monitor sub-par? Is the conventional wisdom about burn-in untrue? Are most people doing anything specific to avoid burn-in?"

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Re:Not really by brunson · 2002-12-18 12:38 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Holy shit, FP!!!

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Re:arrows by CableModemSniper · 2002-12-18 15:54 · Score: 0, Offtopic

In soviet russia, mods mistake bad joke for redundancy. Oh no wait, thats the norm.

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