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"Jerry G." wrote:

Hi,

These displays are very fragile, and so are the CRT ones. It is just that
the CRT sets are too heavy to move, or be knocked over easily. The flat
screens are also very fragile. If your child throws a ball and hits the
front screen, or knocks it over, you may be buying a new one the next day!
It is true that the cost of a new display panel (when it fails), can easily
exceed or be close to the purchase cost of a new set.

Normally the Plasma type should last about 30,000 hours, and the LCD type
should last over 40,000 hours. Most LCD screens of this type have
replaceable lamps inside (not user replaceable, but feasible to replace by a
tech). The Plasma displays have no internal lamp. When the display unit goes
bad, the unit will usually not be feasible to service.

If a still image is left up on a Plasma screen, it can burn in very quickly.
An LCD screen will not burn in.


I disagree 100%.. LCD's WILL burn, time tested with now on the 3rd set
of Samsung LCD monitors (SyncMaster 400T ) used in our Master Control
room. One is fed by a Miranda Kaliedo, the other a Evertz quad split.
The Samsungs once burn not only burn but develop very ugly vertical
squiggily lines up the LCD display. We still have the Samsungs, they
keep replacing them under warranty. I'm not impressed at all with these
LCD's..

That's the hype we were fed also, LCD's won't burn. Not true, the
Samsungs and a bunch of 17 NEC flatscreen computer monitors that sit on
graphics systems ( still stores ) day in and day out 24/7, they DO burn.

So in my life, there is no holy grail of "unburnable" monitors..