Are you sure about the DLP's not burning in?!? I thought I was told they could also burn in?

 

Helpful info on "Image persistence" in the links below. Since LCDs use a backlight and a liquid crystal display, there is technically no "burning" going on in the liquid crystal. It is simply the rotation of layers rod-like molecules that gives color to the white backlight. Hence, the backlight is always using light to shine, but it is always the same color, white. And for this reason, the backlight may dim from overuse, but no light is ever given off by anything going on in the liquid crystal itself. Image persistence is when these molecules, when the same signal has been given for an extended period of time, form intermolecular bonds (impermanent) and stay aligned to form the specific color that was being signaled for this time. Imagine these molecules staying together so long they stick. This can be remedied by turning off the screen for a brief period or by displaying an all white image on the screen. The second is helpful because you can see when the problem has been remedied because the once colored areas, ones subject to image persistence, will become white.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_persistence

 

Again sourcing Wikipedia below, no, they cannot burn in. You may be thinking about the bulb dimming over time. The bulb can be replaced however and is covered under most in-store warranties.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLP

 

Sorry to go a little off topic here but I bought a 62" Toshiba DLP in December and the bulb blew out on me last week!!!! Toshiba replaced it but I was surprised that it went bad so soon.

 

I'm also sorry to off topic, but I have a Dwin ceiling-mount projector that blew a bulb on me as well. I'm told that the next generation DLP's with start using a cluster of LED's for a bulb instead of an actual bulb.

 

Wow, that would give you a lot more life on the bulb.

 

OK, long story short, so no worries on the burning right!


I'm out.

 

Personally, I find the NAV distracting unless I need it for something. I pretty much always have the display "off", (punch display on the left buttons, then screen off.)

-Brian

 

22,000 hours is what Samsung is estimating. The coolest thing is that they're getting rid of the color wheel and replacing that with LEDs as well.
= no moving parts, no rainbow effect, light weight, low energy consumption, thin, true black and should be mainly available in 1080p
Probably the best TV ever... http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1909039,00.asp

 

That's what I was gonna say. LCD should not burn but can have dead pixels.

IMHO, OP, you can leave your Navi on all the time. The car should break down before the LCD go bad because the hours spent in your car is minimum compared to the lifespan of an LCD.

 

for a screen to get a burn-in (assuming LCD's get burn-in at all), the screen would have to be static for a long time. How many people actually drive their cars many hours a day non-stop, everyday? Technically LCD's, unlike CRT's and Plasmas, don't get burn-in's.