Can Burn-In Happen to LCD Monitors?
Ans: LCD monitors use a very different method for producing the image on the screen and are supposed to be immune to the burn-in effect. Rather than phosphors being used to generate the light and color, an LCD has a white light behind the screen and then uses polarizers and crystals to filter the light to specific colors. While LCD’s are not susceptible to the burn-in the same way CRT monitors are, they do suffer from what the manufacturers like to call image persistence. What is Image Persistence? Like the burn-in on CRTs, image persistence on LCD monitors is caused by the continuous display of static graphics on the screen for extended periods of time. What this does is cause the LCD crystals to have a memory for their location in order to generate the colors of that graphic. When a different color is then displayed in that location, the color will be off from what it should be and instead have a faint image of what was previously displayed. This problem is most common for elements o
