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JQ!@JQ-Dogginz7/23/2023, 5:02 PM

gravis again @cathoderaydude

gravis again @cathoderaydude7/16/2023, 3:25 AM

Sometimes I leave a CRT monitor or TV on by accident for much longer than intended, occasionally even overnight, and I always feel this sting of guilt because, wouldn't it be a tragedy if I caused burn-in on one of the few devices of this sort still functioning, and the only one of its type that I personally have a shot at owning?

But the thing is, burn in was not a phenomenon that happened on that time scale. When you see a security camera monitor that has the date cooked into it, you have to remind yourself that that thing was on 24 hours a day for 10 years if not longer.

Back in the late '90s, I probably left my computer monitor turned on for a cumulative total of thousands of hours, with the Windows task bar and start menu present almost all that time, and never got any kind of impression in the phosphor. So, probably, you don't need to worry about this with something that you turn on every few weeks.

JQ!@JQ-Dogginz7/23/2023, 5:02 PM

Needed to hear this. Everything will be fine.

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Annie D @ann-arcana7/16/2023, 3:34 AM

I wrote a whole thread on this once but the short version is I have a theory that screensavers were almost never necessary at all, with the caveat that the screens I have had issues were actually modern panels ...

gravis again @cathoderaydude7/16/2023, 3:46 AM

the correct solution was always for the entire screen to continuously cycle a gradient across its width, we simply didn't want to accept the obvious truth

NeckSpike @neckspike7/16/2023, 3:36 AM

I've caused burn in on several monitors but yeah, they were on literally all the time.

My worst one was an old LCD panel tho. You can kind of see my xchat window even with the power off if you look at the right angle.

Nadia Rain Chassis @softchassis7/16/2023, 3:46 AM

Yeah come to think of it, I also never shut my PC down when I was growing up with a CRT, you'd think the task bar would have burned into them at some point. I think I've heard more firsthand experience from various people about OLED burn-in than CRT burn-in.

Now, plasma TVs on the other hand, I don't think I've ever seen one that wasn't burnt.

gravis again @cathoderaydude7/16/2023, 3:46 AM

I think those things came from the factory with an MSNBC logo in the lower right corner

Pendell @pendell7/16/2023, 4:10 AM

I used to be aggressively anti-OLED purely because of how much the idea of screen burn-in scared me. Fortunately in recent years they've mitigated it enough that I don't think I really need to worry anymore.

Andrew Elmore Works For You! 💽@andrewelmore7/16/2023, 4:16 AM

Yeah I'm more worried about preserving operating hours for the tube tbh

That's how I lost my BVM-20E1U that I got from KOMO.

@rotopenguin7/16/2023, 5:08 AM

Now OLED, on the other hand, that'll burn-in in the time it takes you to wander off to make a sandwich.

@nyankat7/16/2023, 9:05 AM

When I was a kid my father wouldn't let me hook up the Apple ][+ clone to the "big" (20"?) family TV because he heard video games were "bad" for TVs

BS to the P, A R K to the S @cdi7/16/2023, 4:17 PM

I caused burn in on two CRTs in my life, only two. One was the cheapest most lightweight CRT imaginable that shattered once when my plastic desk lamp fell over and hit the screen, so I’m convinced it’s glass was barely thick enough to contain the vacuum. And it had the Mac OS 9 menubar burnt in to the top. Another was a single color phosphor one, and that one I was using for IRC and it had the outline of the text entry box burnt in just slightly? But that was from leaving it on for months 24/7.