


It was a widespread myth for a while that transmissive displays like LCDs weren’t subject to image persistence (a.k.a. Is there a way to get rid of this problem, or at least minimize it?” The ocean image that was displayed left shadows of the waves across the display. I thought LCD displays wouldn’t do that, but I was clearly mistaken. When I got back, I found that the image had burned in.

I left town over the weekend and unthinkingly left a fixed image on the display. I also use it for my PS3 and Wii to prevent a Shining ‘all work and no play’-type incident, so it gets quite a lot of use every day. “I use a 32-inch LCD TV for my home office display, connected to my PC using HDMI.
