Originally Posted by birdstrike

I gave my mother an inexpensive flat panel display to go with a computer I recently bought her. I put up one of my photographs as a background image. It was seagull flying over a dark sea. Went up to visit her and was horrified to find an outline of the seagull and the desktop icons burned into the display!

I changed the background display to rotate between a number of different images instead of being fixed on the seagull. In about a month the seagull outline and icon images were gone.

At least some "stuck" pixels can be fixed, but it depends on the construction of the display and the nature of the failure.

I've got the same seagull image on my laptop and there is no sign of burn in whatsoever. I think the moral of the story is not to buy inexpensive displays.