scott wrote:

> sub-pixel.  In current displays it doesn't matter if your display gets a 
> bit darker after a year or two of use, but it will be a bit annoying if 
> you get a permanent imprint of the windows task bar at the bottom of 
> your monitor :-)

You mean there'd be a real reason to have a screen saver again?  LOL!

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> You mean there'd be a real reason to have a screen saver again?  LOL!

Yeh it looks like it!  Actually there is a SOny 11" OLED TV on Amazon, I was 
reading through the user manual (from the Sony website) and it said that is 
shifts the image around every so often to avoid burn-in.

I would be more concerned though about people who use their computers a lot, 
I mean my screen saver is hardly ever on because I'm mostly at the computer 
during the day.  There's a timer on my old monitor (that I just use as a 
secondary display for my laptop now) which says it's been on for 6519 hours. 
I would hazard a guess that for the majority of that it's said "Start" at 
the bottom left corner!  Even with standard LEDs, after 6000 hours you are 
going to see at least a 10% drop in brightness (which you hardly notice on 
LCD because it affects the whole image), I think this would be quite visible 
if it varied pixel by pixel though.

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scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> Yeh it looks like it!  Actually there is a SOny 11" OLED TV on Amazon, I was 
> reading through the user manual (from the Sony website) and it said that is 
> shifts the image around every so often to avoid burn-in.

  Wouldn't help with larger areas with an uniform color...

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>> Yeh it looks like it!  Actually there is a SOny 11" OLED TV on Amazon, I 
>> was
>> reading through the user manual (from the Sony website) and it said that 
>> is
>> shifts the image around every so often to avoid burn-in.
>
>  Wouldn't help with larger areas with an uniform color...

Agreed, but at least the moving around should stop any recognisable pattern 
burning in - like the word "Start" or "88:88:88" where the clock is - it 
would just be more of a dark blur in that area.

I guess this is primarily a TV so there probably won't be the same issues as 
with a computer monitor or any other display where static information is 
shown in certain areas of the screen.

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