Why does Plasma get screen burn and lcd dont?

Question

Ok Twisted, Why do i have a laptop that i use every day, and when i leave my laptop static for several hours with no screen saver and it has no screen burn yet?

Answer 1

Your question is based on a myth.

LCD screens DO suffer from burn - I know plenty of people who bought LCD televisions, because they had been given the same misinformation as you have.

As the quality of their LCD picture has deteriorated, they now wish they had bought a plasma, like me...


OK, next time you go to an ATM (cash machine) look clearly at the LCD screen. And look clearly at the screen burn on that LCD screen. LCD screens DO suffer from burn, it just takes longer to appear than on a plasma. Just because you don't want to believe the truth, doesn't make you right.

Answer 2

plasma technology is catching up fast and there has been steady improvement in the area of light-emitting technology to minimise the burn-in problem in Plasma panels. LCD does not have the burn-in problem because it works on the principle of transmitted light rather than emitted light as in Plasma.

Answer 3

Plasma is like a light blub, where light is emmited when xenon gas mixed with a phosphor, but LCD is like a window blind, it opens and closes its pixel to let the color through. That's why if a static image is displayed for too long, the phosphors wear out faster then other ones around it, so a ghost image appears. LCDs can have problems too, you may have heard of "stuck pixels", where the "window blind" is stuck on a specific color.

Answer 4

because plasma tv have gas in them which causes the burn

Answer 5

Mine just died with no burning at all! Would not recommend Plasmas to my worst enemy