using too much power of c. monitor

[Grafer]

Do you think if you use programs with a great deal of graphics such as
Adobe After Effects can affect a computer monitor - to "burn down"?...

[BJ_M]

no -- but leaving any image forever on a monitor will cause it to burn in (the image) ..

a big problem on plasma displays - but any monitor can have this happen .. often seen at airports and public displays ..

[Faustus]

BJ_M is correct, though it takes quite a bit these days to burn in a good CRT monitor, it can still be done. LCD on the other hand I've had very little hands on with... I would ASSUME its even easier to burn in... but you know what assumptions do.

[WeedVender]

Ive burned countless of CRT monitors at work

[sterno]

LCD on the other hand I've had very little hands on with... I would ASSUME its even easier to burn in... but you know what assumptions do.

The reason an image can burn in to a CRT is that the electron gun firing at the same point eventually burns a pattern in to the phosphor coating on the inside of the screen ("burn-in" is more a literal term than a figure of speech). LCDs have no electron gun or phosphor coating, so they can't really burn in.

However, over time LCDs can develop what are called "dead pixels". Single elements in the display either stop working altogether or they display the wrong color. Newer high-quality LCDs rarely develop them, but the cheaper ones (like the cheap flat-panel monitors or the low-end notebooks with lousy screens) sometimes get one or two even when they're brand-new.

[Faustus]

Ok then I was wrong... see what I mean about assuming?