Don’t buy a new TV if you don’t have to. PixelTuneup repairs image problems like stuck pixels, burn in, ghosting, and image retention using a unique patented design. Why spend hundreds or even thousands on a new television when PixelTuneup can fix your current TV?

PixelTuneup is the world’s first stuck pixel fixer that improves picture quality and eliminates burn in. It uses proprietary circuitry specifically designed to correct stuck pixels, image retention, and ghosting. Regular use will help protect your television or monitor from static images like cable channel logos, sports banners, computer desktop images, game console menus, and side bars.

Restores and Improves Picture Quality.
After using PixelTuneup, your TV or monitor produces brighter colors, higher contrasts, and consistent light distribution throughout the entire screen. Your favorite movies, TV shows, video games, and sporting events will appear clearer and visually more enjoyable.

How does it work?

PixelTuneup produces an electrically calibrated video signal that removes excess electrical charges from the pixel field of your monitor or TV. Simply plug it in, turn it on, and PixelTuneup does the work. Twenty minutes once per week helps maintain a balanced uniform display through the entire screen. You must have a VGA port on your TV or monitor to use PixelTuneup.

Low Cost, High Tech

PixelTuneup contains both the hardware and software to eliminate stuck pixels and screen burn. At less than $50, it’s still a low cost alternative, and it is designed specifically to correct these image retention problems.

PixelTuneup communicates directly with your television display panel through the VGA port. Unlike alternative solutions, PixelTuneup generates its own signals and voltages that are designed to correct television and monitor image problems. Also, PixelTuneup might be the easiest solution to use — literally plug in, turn on, and wait twenty minutes. It doesn’t require a menu.

Here are the complete operating instructions, culled from the owners manual:

1. Turn off your television or monitor
2. Using a VGA cable (not included), connect the PixelTuneup to the VGA port of the television or monitor
3. Turn on PixelTuneup. The green power indicator should be illuminated.
4. Turn on your television or monitor, and make sure the television’s input selection is set to the VGA port. Usually this is performed by selecting “VGA” or “PC” on your remote control. PixelTuneup is now repairing and protecting your television or monitor display panel
5. Leave the PixelTuneup operating for up to 60 minutes
6. After 60 minutes, turn off your television or monitor
7. Turn off and then disconnect the PixelTuneup
8. Turn on your television or monitor, making sure the television’s input selection is set to your DVD player, cable box, or other desired input device.

Of the above steps, the most complicated ones were plugging in the cable and hitting the on switch — not rocket science. You may need to run the device longer than twenty minutes the first few times if your image problems are particularly bad.

Mid Tech – Websites and Pro DVDs

This approach is not free, but it’s not expensive either. You can get the effect of a professionally produced DVD solution or website for correcting stuck pixels for less than $40. Again, not free but not equivalent to buying a new TV either.

The two products at the top of this category are JScreenFix and PixelProtector. They are both decent solutions and you should give them a try if you have a DVD player (who doesn’t?) or internet connection for your television.

Open a browser and navigate to the JScreenFix website. They have a free version that could solve your problem before you move up to the fee-based product. JScreenFix works by displaying a series of colors at the pixel level. The menu bar at the top blocks the top few lines of the display from getting treated, but you get a decent blast of stuck-pixel-fixing images across the rest of the screen. It appears that this product is geared mainly for computer monitors, but there is no reason it wouldn’t work for televisions (don’t forget to check with JScreenFix to confirm).

Commercial DVDs are available as well, including PixelProtector. This solution includes not only tools for eliminating stuck pixels and screen burn, but also video calibration routines. Similar to JScreenFix, PixelProtector performs a variety of functions that reduce or eliminate stuck pixels and screen burn by flashing colors and images on the screen through your DVD player. They also have a Blu-Ray version in case your DVD player does not perform this function well. Based on the customer feedback on their website, this appears to be a good solution and might be what you need to fix your problem.

Both JScreenFix and PixelProtector use your existing hardware to treat stuck pixels and screen burn. JScreenFix uses your video graphics card, and PixelProtector uses your DVD player, both of which are designed to display video. You also have the option of using a hardware device designed to correct television image problems.

Low Tech, DIY

What we like about this approach is that it is free, and you don’t have to wait for something to arrive in the mail. However, the low tech DIY approach to fixing stuck pixels will require some time and experimentation. You will need video editing software like Power Director.

1. Create a new project in the video editing software. The technique for doing this varies depending on the software, so refer to your video software user manual for instructions.

2. Create a sequence of alternating monotone images. Your software probably came with a library of images, some of which are solid colors – green, blue, purple, etc. Choose a variety of these images that span the color spectrum. You want to make sure to choose bright colors, and that the primary colors (red, green, blue) are represented in equal portions. Now, sequence these images at intervals of three to ten seconds apart.

3. The duration of the video will need to be at least ten minutes or more. Repeat the sequence of colors until you have built up at least ten minutes of video. The longer the video, the better.

4. Save the project and proceed through your software’s process to create a DVD. Your owners manual should give clear instructions for how to do this.

5. Once you have created the DVD files and burned them to DVD media, run the media in your DVD player and make sure the images you sequenced together are displayed on the TV screen. Depending on the duration of the video and the colors you chose, you may need to run it more than once.

If you followed these steps carefully, the stuck pixels or ghost image should be less pronounced or eliminated. If this process did not take care of your problem, it’s time to get help from the pros.

Closing Thoughts

None of these solutions can replace the rush of bringing home the latest 60″ HDTV monitor from your local electronics store, but they all cost a lot less. The bottom line is that if you have screen burn or stuck pixels, solutions exist that don’t require a complete replacement. However, if you do decide to buy a new television, the solutions described above will also help you keep your new television displaying the highest quality picture possible.

PixelTuneUp is the world’s first stuck pixel fixer that improves picture quality, eliminates burn in, and is completely portable. It uses proprietary circuitry specifically designed to correct stuck pixels, image retention, and ghosting. Regular use will help protect your television or monitor from static images like cable channel logos, sports banners, computer desktop images, game console menus, and side bars.

Restores and Improves Picture Quality.

After using PixelTuneup, your TV or monitor produces brighter colors, higher contrasts, and consistent light distribution throughout the entire screen. Your favorite movies, TV shows, video games, and sporting events will appear clearer and visually more enjoyable.

How does it work?

PixelTuneup produces an electrically calibrated video signal that removes residual images from the pixel field of your monitor or TV. Simply plug it in, turn it on, and PixelTuneup does the work. Twenty minutes once per week helps maintain a balanced uniform display through the entire screen. You must have a VGA port on your TV or monitor to use PixelTuneup.

You might have noticed the faint shapes and lines in the background that distort your television picture — left-overs from when the game console menu or the cable channel listing was left on, or the movie or sports channel logo was displayed for a period of time.

Quick Test

Find a channel that is showing a black and white movie or television program. Look for any areas of the picture that are not either black, grey, or white. If you notice light purple blotches and lines, you have a form of screen burn called image retention. This condition affects the quality of your television picture even when you are watching normal color programming. You won’t believe how good your television picture will appear if you eliminate these patches and lines.

Now there are simple and inexpensive techniques that improve your television picture quality without requiring a replacement. Read on this website about no cost and low cost solutions that will make marked and noticeable improvements to your television picture.

Owners of plasma televisions enjoy some of the richest and most colorful images among flat panel displays. Unfortunately, these devices historically have been prone to image retention, ghosting, or burn-in caused by static images. Although plasma technology has improved since the early days, plasma televisions still can suffer from burn-in and ghosting. And not all owners of plasma televisions are ready to run out and buy a new one.

Image retention in plasma displays is usually the result of uneven aging of the phosphorus sub-pixels. Although this condition can occur at any time during the life of a plasma display, it is most common — and damaging — during the first 100 hours of use. As a result, many plasma televisions have a built in white wash feature. Periodic use of this feature is believed to reduce and even correct the impact of uneven pixel aging.

PixelTuneup treats and corrects uneven aging of phosphorus cells in plasma televisions, regardless of whether your television came with a white wash feature. The signal produced by PixelTuneup creates a perfectly calibrated distribution of color and light intensity for every pixel in the entire display. Unlike plasma television white washing, PixelTuneup can be used for long periods without causing damage.

The quality of flat panel televisions has come a long way in recent years. Resolutions as high as 1080p in LCD, LED, and plasma displays have made quality home theater accessible to just about everyone. Although early model suffered from chronic issues with burn in, the latest high-end devices are less prone to this phenomenon, and some even include features that treat or prevent long term image retention. Unfortunately, not all brands perform at this level, and many of us who already have flat panel televisions are not ready to replace them.

Over time, the pixels in the display device can develop flaws that prevent them from accurately reproducing the colors and light intensities exactly as instructed by the input source. This phenomenon is known as image retention, burn-in, or ghosting, and has been a factor in the performance of display devices from the earliest cathode ray televisions and computer monitors to modern LCD, LED, and plasma televisions and display panels.

PixelTuneup is a self-contained solid state device specifically designed to produce the video signals necessary to exercise the screen pixels. It produces an electrically calibrated coding that improves the quality of your TV or monitor picture. The voltages and current for the color and light intensity signal are designed to produce the precise colors and intensities necessary to optimize the output level of each pixel, so that they are consistent and uniform for all pixels in the pixel field.

These flat panel technologies such as LCD, LED, and plasma are less prone to image retention than their tube based predecessors, but static images will still leave very noticable artifacts. Manufacturers still have not eliminated image retention, and many owners have discovered how noticable these images can be.

What is burn in, ghosting, or image retention?

Image retention, known as “burn in” during the heyday of cathode ray television, is a condition that can occur when a static image is displayed for a prolonged period on a television or monitor. The most common sources of ghost images are game console menus, side bars, cable channel logos, sports banners, and computer desktop images. I can’t tell you how many times a friend or neighbor has complained that the game console was left on overnight, and the result was that no matter which television channel they watched, the outline of the game console menu remained visible in the background.

Diagnosing Ghosting and Burn In

This is an example of what screen burn in would look like if a cable channel menu had been left on for a prolonged period. Does this look familiar?

How to Treat Burn In and Ghosting

The good news is that burn in and ghosting can be treated and eliminated in most cases on LED, plasma, and LCD TVs. You should try one or more of these solutions before replacing your television.

Solid State Solutions

One of the most effective treatments is a piece of hardware called PixelTuneup. This device produces specially calibrated video signals that communicate directly with your television’s display through the VGA port.

One of the advantages of this approach is that the signals that are sent from the PixelTuneup to your television are designed specifically to repair and prevent plasma image retention. Stuck pixels in LCD and LED televisions also can be treated using this method. Unlike solutions that are delivered to the television through DVD players or graphics cards, a hardware solution can communicate directly with the pixel field to optimize the display and correct image problems.

Alternatives

Not everyone needs a specialty solution like PixelTuneup. There are other alternatives that use your DVD player or computer graphics card to send images to your television or monitor. If you think one of these solutions might be adequate, you should give them a try.

You may want to try more than one solution if you are not sure which one is right for you. Compare the details, then give them a try. Chances are you will enjoy the results.

Conclusion

If you have image retention like we described in this article, rest assured that there are solutions out there for you. If you have dropped or physically damaged your television or monitor, your only option is going to be to have a professional repair it. However, damage from static images can be repaired easily and inexpensively with the new products on the market.

If the image problems were caused by static images, try one of these solutions. You might be pleasantly surprised!

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