We got a new monitor at work.

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johary m

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I work at a Water Plant, and we have to have a computer monitor on 24/7/365 It allows us to operate the water plant, and monitor the entire system. We had been using a 19" CRT, but the burn in was so horrendous, that while viewing any window besides the normal system map, you could see the halo of the other screen, besides the data that changed with some regularity.

So, we talk to our computer support lady person gal, who's supposed to keep our network, and all computers up and running properly. She basically just calls a local company and has them assess the situation and deal with it, and send the bill.

With this problem she has to "shop around" for prices for a monitor. She shoots us a price of $246.99. Ok fine and dandy. That was about 6 weeks ago. We just got the monitor today. It's a PolyView V17E. Hmmm... gee imagine, we got ripped off. How FREAKIN RETARDED. I told my boss I could have a monitor here in 3 days. Instead we overpay and wait 6 weeks. :thumbsup:
 
Yeah. Run out to CompUSA and buy a cheap-ass CRT.

I'm currently using a 6-year old Compaq MV520 CRT, 15" of pure shit. But she works like a charm.

That LCD will be fucked in six weeks. Kinda reminds me of the "WARNING TO OWNERS OF PROJECTION TELEVISIONS" message that all VCR/LaserDisc/video game manuals contained in the 90's.
 
Heh, my first 2005 had image retention after 3 days...

A cheap CRT would be better, but will eventually burn in. The only advantage of LCDs is that the image retention isn't permanent. But if you never turn the monitor off it's going to be even worse.
 
OLEDs exist?!?

i read about them a long time ago but i thought that it would be far longer until they produced them. Ive never even heard of anyone using them lol. are they a specialty thing?
 
yeah thats what i was concerned about is it availible for monitor size. wow if i could ge hands on one... 'drool'.

I m sure you know but for everyone else basically OLED is similar in size to an LCD has infinite contrast so you can get any color you can imagine with a crt style refresh rate. and believe it or not its cheaper to manufacture than LCD.

however, philips, on of the gurus of LCD TVs patended the manufacturing procedure and they plan to monopolize and maximize the LCD market for as long as possible. Then perhaps they will begin to make OLED TV and monitors.

there are different ways of making OLED but they are more expensive less foold proof etc.

sigh
 
LCDs don't 'burn in,' but they do experience image retention. The pixels start to remember the image if it's displayed for too long. This happens on ALL LCDs if the picture is displayed for long enough. Like I said earlier though, it's not permanent; it will usually go away after powering the monitor down for a while.

This also has nothing to do with quality; it's the nature of the technology.

http://aftereffects.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=25497
 
Mine had like 3 dead ones, but two were near the taskbar. I moved my mouse cursor over an elephantitis picture on this forum, and -POOF-, the backlight kicked out.
 
They did go with a TFT, read the first post.

You're wrong, read above. In addition to dead pixels, LCDs can also experience backlight leakage and image retention.
 
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