Will You Ruin Your Monitor If You Do Not Use a Screen Saver?
“If you do not use a screen saver, you will destroy your computer monitor?”
This statement was actually very valid many years ago. The monitors of that time had phosphor-based displays. If left displaying a static image for a prolonged period of time, the monitors would lose their brightness. As a result, a fuzzy copy of the image would be permanently displayed onscreen despite turning off the computer monitor, ruining the computer hardware.
Even if some of the ghostly images are very faint, their negative effects are felt right away. Computer users can immediately see that the image quality of their computer monitor has greatly eroded.
The screen disfigurement of phosphor-based computer monitors is called a phosphor burn-in or, in layman’s term, a screen burn. Apart from replacing the computer screen, these old monitors — both CRTs and LCDs alike — could not be repaired, and many users ended up …
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