How on earth do you clean LCD TV screens smear free????

No matter what i try, soft cloths, paper towels, newspaper, window & glass spray, normal anti-bac spray even foam for TV screens I am always left with smears on the screen. During cleaning when the TV is off it is fine, they only show up during dark scenes.

So how do you clean them properly?

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  • Microfibre cloth is best - and either water or something used for cleaning screens.

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  • chrisjrchrisjr Posts: 33,282

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    The trick is to use the absolute minimum quantity of cleaning agent. Water is often all you need but don't get the cloth above barely damp.Then finish off with a dry cloth immediately after which can reduce streaking.

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  • No matter what i try, soft cloths, paper towels, newspaper, window & glass spray, normal anti-bac spray even foam for TV screens I am always left with smears on the screen. During cleaning when the TV is off it is fine, they only show up during dark scenes.

    So how do you clean them properly?

    Carefully?

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  • Cheers guys thats looking a million times better. I always thought a good drowning would be best, never occured to me to only slightly dampen the cloth!

    Carefully?

    Well I wasn't planning on doing a gymnastics routine at the same time :D

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  • Microfibre cloth is best - and either water or something used for cleaning screens.

    Very true... anything else BUT microfibre cloth leaves clusters of dust and smears.

    I use a microfibre cloth in luke warm water rinsed out so that it is only just damp and i then apply medicore pressure and dry with a seperate microfibre cloth applying slightly more pressure to remove any remaining light smears and this is done in anti-clockwise circles....it comes up a treat.

    Never use glass cleaner....it produces a glaze and lots of smears.

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  • No matter what i try, soft cloths, paper towels, newspaper, window & glass spray, normal anti-bac spray even foam for TV screens I am always left with smears on the screen. During cleaning when the TV is off it is fine, they only show up during dark scenes.

    So how do you clean them properly?

    I've this annoying problem too, and it's a damn nuisance.

    It shows up on dark scenes, or on an input with no signal. It looks like shafts of dim light. Especially noticeable in your room when the lights are off.

    It seems to be a ghostly remnant of your gentle wiping motion. For example, vertical streaks or horizontal streaks. To test it, I once wiped the screen corner to diagonal corner. I ended up with the Saltire cross!

    I am not sure that the cleaning fluids are to blame, or even water for that matter. I tried a microfibre cloth, rinsed in water, well wrung out, rolled into a sausage length-wise, and very gently used to wipe the screen vertically. I still ended up with three or four 'shafts of light'.

    It seems to be a mixture of several design or manufacturing factors:

    • soft pliable plastic screen which seems to memorise the pressure used to clean it;
    • plastic screen which might perhaps memorise the electrostatic charge of your wiping motion, thus affecting the liquid crystal orientations underneath.

    Perhaps if they put a glass layer on the surface, we might not have this problem, though the weight would obviously increase.

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  • gomezzgomezz Posts: 40,404

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    The same way as I clean my spectacles and my mobile phone screen: Microfibre cloth and lens cleaner.

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  • If youve used glass cleaner etc, its probably too late. Microfiber cloth lightly damped only. This is far moe a problem with lcd, Plasma glass seems to be ok.

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  • Thanks. I tried damp (water only) microfibre cloth, followed by a dry one, using uniform vertical sweeps. This has reduced the bright patches, but I still think the technology is wanting an improvement.

    How are folk supposed to clean the 'moth eye' screens, with all the peaks and gullies?

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  • We use microfibre cloths too for pretty well everything. They are cheap, highly effective and dry quickly. One of todays really useful items.

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  • I would never use paper towels or newspaper as you said in first post OP,I know you've tried microfibre but it is the way to go,one thing to be aware of is the cloth must be properly clean or new,on a car detailing forum I'm on people only use Woolite to wash their cloths and never ever use fabric softener with microfibre.

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  • stvn758stvn758 Posts: 19,596

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    Water and a couple of microfiber cloths, I learned the hard way.

    Some screens have a strange film on them, anti-glare I think.

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  • d'@ved'@ve Posts: 43,411

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    Perhaps if they put a glass layer on the surface, we might not have this problem, though the weight would obviously increase.

    Another reason to keep my plasma TV sets going for as long as humanly possible! :)

    To be fair, I do have a slight smearing issue with my two 27 inch PC monitors though, this thread contains some handy tips.

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