Faint Ghosting finally noticed

Didn't think I had it, and felt sorry for those that noticed it, but just now I restarted my system after a download and noticed some faint ghosting that mimics the online favorite/google page. I saw a faint vertical line straight down that divided my favorites from the main google page, and saw another faint area where the task bar was. Had a black wallpaper that showed well

God only knows if this will get worse over time or not, but it does not look good.


It does fade away within minutes however

I tried to get a picture of it but it was too faint for my camera but this photo below is what I saw in the ghosting when I rebooted system, not when I minimized the page.

 

I see ghosting between the bios screen and the windows login. I can see "Lenovo" faintly when it shows the windows boot screen.

EDIT: W520 FHD

 

got this lousy hand held picture of the ghosting.

 

Anyone has experience with this type of small burn in ?

Will it get worse over time as the system ages ?

Has this happen to the other Lenovo notebooks of late ?

 

This looks bad. I've never seen anything like it with a LCD screen. Have you left it on with that image for a long time? According to Wikipedia, it may be corrected by constantly cycling through colours. If that doesn't do anything, I'd call Lenovo.

 

This is not normal. LCD screens do not "burn in."

Though it's not a Thinkpad, I've never experienced anything like this on my screen.

 

LCD screens do experience burn in rare cases. and i think what is being described here is image persistence

Both plasma-type and LCD-type displays exhibit a similar phenomenon called transient image persistence, which is sometimes confused with screen burn but is not permanent.

 

yes, if you call them they'll likely send you a small software package that does this and ask you to run it. if that fails then they may replace the screen

 

Did not leave on for long at all. About one minute, perhaps a tad less and rebooted to see if the burn in was present. It was. Went away after a few minutes. Tried it a few times more and got the same results.

I'm thinking if its just a few that notice this, than we got a bad batch perhaps. If anyone else cares to test this out with a black background, using Internet Explorer for a minute or so and reboot to see if you notice any slight burn in, would be helpful. I already called tech support and got a work order number, but have to call monday for a follow up.

By the way, not related. I found a Lenovo support Chat site and tried to use it yesterday and no one was available. Funny, the site says they are open saturdays but this is twice now, one on Saturday and another one on Thurday that no one was on Chat to chat with. Guess they haven't updated the date/time they want to work.

 

OK, here is a better picture folks....

White arrow are the burn in (Task bar area and vertical line where it divided the IE9 favorites from
Google area) and the red arrows are the bleed that many are talking about. What would you do ?

 

I have been using the default "Think" blue wallpaper. I can see some ghosting if I minimize all windows. I notice if I change the wallpaper to different solid colors, the ghosting seems most observable in blue. After trying several different solid color wallpapers over the course of a few minutes, the ghosting seems to go away [AFAICT].

 

SR45, I've got a bit of light bleed like you, perhaps only 2 or 3 spots, but realistically it wouldnt bother me in normal usage because how often do you stare at a black screen? Even in dark scenes in movies they wouldn't draw my eye (unless aforementioned movie had nothing else going on on-screen except blackness for an extended time!).

The burn/image persistance, same as above really. I don't notice anything on a white screen, which is the most typical background for web surfing. I did notice some faint image persistance at the biod load/boot screen, but never in normal usage.

I'm a bit of a stickler for all this stuff, but the reality is we go looking for niggles that are probably a lot less significant than we make out...

Petrov.

 

If it makes you feel any better, I have the same (or worse) bleeding on PVA panel of X200T and had the same thing on X200 AFFS screen. I was told this is not unusual. I haven't seen this type of backlight bleed on any TN screens - I'd say it's a small price to pay for an IPS screen. However, last time I've seen this kind of ghosting was about 15 years ago on really old LCDs.

Have you tried posting on their official forums?

 

Yep. Posted on the Official forum and waiting a reply. Called tech yesterday and will call Monday as well to see if they can do anything, but I doubt it.

Main concern is if this might get worse over time and the reason to one of my questions to those that have lenovo notebooks and simular issues over a long period of time, but not getting worse.

Light bleed is another issue as well. If I watch dark background movies will this be trouble for me or others.

 

Maybe try JScreenFixing the living daylights out of the panel?

 

I just got my X220 yesterday, and found this thread this afternoon after experiencing the same ghosting problem. It is only apparent when the background is mostly a solid color, but it is definitely a problem. Like the other poster said, I haven't seen anything like this in an LCD for years.

 

The IPS panels for the Ipad 2 and now the newest Samsung Galaxy tablet 10.1 are showing lots of light bleed as well. At least with both the IPad 2 and Galaxy 10.1 you can send it back for a new tablet, and some have done so many times as read on the IPad 2 and Galaxy forums.

Some has stated, just ignore it and others say send it back. To each his/her own but I say the screen had better be darn right perfect, since that is what we look at all day long.

Good luck with your system

http://gizmodo.com/5799368/does-your-ipad-2-have-backlight-bleed-blame-lg


http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/12/poll-is-your-ipad-2-backlight-bleeding-video/


http://www.ipadforums.net/ipad-2-forum/30848-what-screen-bleed.html

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1076349