burned screan regenerated???

[dem beats]

SO... I was watching xfiles... and left the G/F to turn off the projector durring an intermission...

HUGE X IN THE MIDDLE FROM A LOADING SCREEN...

Anyway as I watched the next episode and then had it off and turned it back on the burn dissapeared. #1 the burn has never happened before and how could it go away?? I have an older epson powerlite. I'm happy but it's odd.

I have never even seen videogame burns from constant pictures through marathon gaming.

Any ideas?

 

[mixmaster420]

well first of all if u have a front projector, you cannot get a "burned" image. the only tecnologies that would have a chance of that are lcd and plasma panels. what you might have been seeing is maybe just the pixels not refreshing on the tv. the only way that would happen is if the x is from the actual x-files program

 

[no. 5]

The only display technology with the possibility for 'burn-in' is Plasma (well, CRT too, as it uses a similar display technology), and even then it's not much of a problem with the newer generations of displays.

 

[dem beats]

well first of all if u have a front projector, you cannot get a "burned" image. the only tecnologies that would have a chance of that are lcd and plasma panels. what you might have been seeing is maybe just the pixels not refreshing on the tv. the only way that would happen is if the x is from the actual x-files program

okie dokey. My eyes lie. I have a front projector and there was a definate lightened area where the symbol of an X was with a circle around it and several of the opening menue words... all in fact, just some affected the image more than others..

I am fine if you don't know why but it was there.

SOrry no disrespect to you. Maybe the word burned was not the right word but durring darker scenes I could clearly make out the X and read the menue text. I might not knwo the name, so i'm sorry but it there was some affect on it and showed up much more in dark scenes.

 

[mixmaster420]

well actually lcd may not have a "burn" but it is still possible to get image retention. I have seen it first hand a coulple of times. Of course it goes away after a short time and tecnically cannot be permenently "burned" into the screen as plasma tvs can have. But the issue of burn is almost 0 now with all the newer generation panels out there. You have to pretty much be an idiot now a days to burn in your plasma.

 

[dem beats]

well actually lcd may not have a "burn" but it is still possible to get image retention. I have seen it first hand a coulple of times. Of course it goes away after a short time and tecnically cannot be permenently "burned" into the screen as plasma tvs can have. But the issue of burn is almost 0 now with all the newer generation panels out there. You have to pretty much be an idiot now a days to burn in your plasma.

TY mix. I think mine is a 3 screan LCD... I'm not sure however. I will check on it... but i would definately call it "image retention" if not burn.

Again it's gone now.. but boy it was odd.

Reminded me of the old CRT TV's (the OOOOOOLD) ones that would have an image stick around if there was the same picture for too long.

 

[BMXTRIX]

CRTs and plasmas can get burn in, which is more accurately called uneven phosphor wear. Since they are phosphor based technologies, they can permanently have certain areas that are worn out faster than others and visibily show this issue.

LCD, which is what you most likely have, has image retention. In LCD land, this occurs because an LCD panel (always 3 with LCD projection) retains an electrical charge in certain LCD pixels (dots) after a static image has been left on for a long period of time. So, you see an effect very similar to burn-in. Most often though, simply turning off the display for 24 hours or so will allow the eleticity to disapate from the panels and the image retention will completely disappear.

DLP does not suffer from this at all from my (limited?) understanding.

 

[1tribeca]

I was told once that if you're panel is suffering from some burn-in probs, leave it on with "snow" on the screen for a short whils....a la Poltergeist. This is supposed to correct the problem. I'm assuming this was meant for plasma.

 

[1tribeca]

Sorry, meant "your"...not "you're"...nice grasp of English!!

 

[avaserfi]

I was told once that if you're panel is suffering from some burn-in probs, leave it on with "snow" on the screen for a short whils....a la Poltergeist. This is supposed to correct the problem. I'm assuming this was meant for plasma.

Generally if burn has happened, which on new panels is very very unlikely, you should watch something that is "good" for the television. By good I mean HD channels or something else that is real HD. With minor burn in these quick fix seems to do the trick.

I have not heard anything about the snow screen fix, but have used the HD fix on my old plasma successfully before I exchanged it for my current LCD.

Another thing to note is the fact that current plasmas not only have internal methods of preventing burn in but in the case it happens have a clean screen which is supposed to take care of the problem as well.

 

[BMXTRIX]

I was told once that if you're panel is suffering from some burn-in probs, leave it on with "snow" on the screen for a short whils....a la Poltergeist. This is supposed to correct the problem. I'm assuming this was meant for plasma.

Snow... yes.

Actually, there are many methods used to combat and help to deal with uneven phosphor wear. A full white field (pure white) screen is similar to snow and has a similar effect - it burns a lot of phosphor more quickly.

A bit better, if it can be done, is the negative screen, which flips all the colors/contrasts to help equalize things.

The best though really remains pixel shifting which moves the pixels around the screen just a few pixels every direction every few minutes. This typically helps to completely eliminate any uneven wear without any 'extra' work on the part of the owner.