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daymanstep • today at 6:51 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Doesn't every display technology have issues with burn in? I have a VA monitor that has burn in as well, even though many have claimed that VA doesn't get burn in


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craftkiller • today at 7:53 PM

My 12 year old IPS monitor still has no burn-in. I grew up in the age of necessary screensavers, I ain't going back.

paimapi • today at 8:06 PM

I have multiple 10+ year old VA monitors that don't have any burn-in. I imagine it depends on usage.

simoncion • today at 8:55 PM

I have a VA monitor that I bought in ~2019 with -according to its service menu- just under 40,000 hours of backlight-on time. It has some small hemispherical darkening along the top of its left edge that you can only notice when that portion of the screen is bright but has zero burn-in. [0] I use it for both video gaming and ordinary computing tasks.

[0] This darkening corresponds to nothing I've had on screen... it looks like the sort of minor backlight or diffuser (or whatever it's called) failure you tend to see on middle-aged monitors.