Screen burn-in

Screen burn-in, image burn-in, ghost image, or shadow image is damage on a Television or Monitor screen, which happens from when a static image does not change for a long period of time. When the content on the screen is changed, the long-unchanged image from before may still remain. This damage happens a lot more in older screens, where the technology at the time made it a lot more likely to occur. Even with the name, the screen does not actually burn. Rather, the pixels of the screen permanently stay on the screen, as they were before.

This TV is an example of Screen burn-in. CNN was the only channel that played on this TV throughout the day. A commercial shows the effects of screen burn-in on the bottom right.