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Preventing Screen burn

I've written a helpdesk monitor application that is designed to sit on a big plasma screen in a support department, the application has 5 views that it revolves around, the content of most of those screens is different, but they have some common components, being one silverlight control and a css background image.

I'm worried that over a period of time these will get burnt into the screen, I've looked into techniques to fix this, and some people suggest moving the image by one pixel every few seconds or displaying a different view.

I just don't know if these techniques are sufficient.

Does ensuring that I use a different css background, and a bit of silverlight animation 1-50% of the time actually fix this problem? The same image will be in the same place the other 99-50% of the time.

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Dan Avatar asked Nov 21 '08 10:11

Dan


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2 Answers

Check the documentation for the plasma screen, I did hear that many of them countered burn in by running colour flashes at some points and it is not as big a problem with modern plasma screens.

From what I've heard, this is a common complaint because of the annoying channel logos in the corner of screens so they had to do something about it.

What I am saying is, I think your hardware will probably manage it anyway.

Ryan

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Ryan O'Neill Avatar answered Oct 01 '22 22:10

Ryan O'Neill


It depends on the plasma screen you use. Some manufacturers take steps to reduce the risk of it happening. However, if it does happen, I've found that there is something called JScreenFix that can be used to remove the burn-in. The basic problem is caused by the image on the screen not changing. You can either make sure the image moves at least slightly over time or reduce the contrast to reduce the risk.

Also, if possible you should use an LCD screen instead which are technically not susceptible to burn in...though they sometimes suffer from image persistence which is not permanent.

Check out for more detailed information:

  • http://www.plasmatvbuyingguide.com/plasmatv/plasmatv-burnin.html
  • http://www.wikihow.com/Use-JScreenFix-to-Remove-Plasma-Screen-Burn-in
  • http://compreviews.about.com/od/monitors/a/LCDBurnIn.htm
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mezoid Avatar answered Oct 01 '22 23:10

mezoid