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Screensavers on lcd??

I find screensavers a pain and have been told you don't need them with lcd monitors, only crt ones??

Public Comments

1. That's correct. LCD screens will NOT experience burn in so there's no use to keep a moving image on the screen.
2. you dont even need them on crt these day. teh whole purpose of them was to keep the images moving so tehy wouldnt burn on to the old monitor screens, as would happen if you left a screen on too long.
3. screensavers where used for old dos computers to stop the curser and text burning into the screen you can turn them off modern monitors refresh themself very fast so just turn them off hope this helps
4. Actually, depends but the only possible burn-in issue is to those kiosk type machines, those that says you don't need screensavers for LCDs have not seen one LCD with image burnt-in. It was a kiosk machine. As for office and home machines you won't need them as you would just turn it off long before that. LCD is better in almost every characteristic over CRT but not absolute.
5. LCDs can experience burn in, but the instances of this are incredibly, incredibly rare. You dont need a screensaver, but then dont just have your computer run the same static image for 2 days either, just to be safe ;)