diff --git a/openlp/core/display/html/display.js b/openlp/core/display/html/display.js
index 848de2312..94126d4af 100644
--- a/openlp/core/display/html/display.js
+++ b/openlp/core/display/html/display.js
@@ -298,6 +298,29 @@ var Display = {
     console.debug("scrollHeight: " + $(".slides")[0].scrollHeight);
     return $(".slides")[0].clientHeight >= $(".slides")[0].scrollHeight;
   },
+  /**
+   * Generate the OpenLP startup splashscreen
+   * @param {string} bg_color - The background color
+   * @param {string} image - Path to the splash image
+   */
+  setStartupSplashScreen: function(bg_color, image) {
+    Display.clearSlides();
+    var globalBackground = $("#global-background")[0];
+    globalBackground.style.cssText = "";
+    globalBackground.style.setProperty("background", bg_color);
+    var slidesDiv = $(".slides")[0];
+    var section = document.createElement("section");
+    section.setAttribute("id", 0);
+    section.setAttribute("data-background", bg_color);
+    section.setAttribute("style", "height: 100%; width: 100%; position: relative;");
+    var img = document.createElement('img');
+    img.src = image;
+    img.setAttribute("style", "position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; left: 0; right: 0; margin: auto;");
+    section.appendChild(img);
+    slidesDiv.appendChild(section);
+    Display._slides['0'] = 0;
+    Display.reinit();
+  },
   /**
    * Add a slides. If the slide exists but the HTML is different, update the slide.
    * @param {string} verse - The verse number, e.g. "v1"
diff --git a/openlp/core/display/html/openlp-splash-screen.png b/openlp/core/display/html/openlp-splash-screen.png
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..09785488a
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diff --git a/openlp/core/display/window.py b/openlp/core/display/window.py
index 2a2c3926c..dcddbf270 100644
--- a/openlp/core/display/window.py
+++ b/openlp/core/display/window.py
@@ -30,11 +30,13 @@ import copy
 from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtWebChannel, QtWidgets
 
 from openlp.core.common.path import Path, path_to_str
+from openlp.core.common.settings import Settings
 
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 DISPLAY_PATH = Path(__file__).parent / 'html' / 'display.html'
 CHECKERBOARD_PATH = Path(__file__).parent / 'html' / 'checkerboard.png'
+OPENLP_SPLASH_SCREEN_PATH = Path(__file__).parent / 'html' / 'openlp-splash-screen.png'
 
 
 class MediaWatcher(QtCore.QObject):
@@ -128,6 +130,7 @@ class DisplayWindow(QtWidgets.QWidget):
         self.channel.registerObject('mediaWatcher', self.media_watcher)
         self.webview.page().setWebChannel(self.channel)
         self.is_display = False
+        self.scale = 1
         if screen and screen.is_display:
             self.update_from_screen(screen)
             self.is_display = True
@@ -142,6 +145,13 @@ class DisplayWindow(QtWidgets.QWidget):
         self.setGeometry(screen.display_geometry)
         self.screen_number = screen.number
 
+    def set_startup_screen(self):
+        bg_color = Settings().value('core/logo background color')
+        image = Settings().value('core/logo file')
+        if path_to_str(image).startswith(':'):
+            image = OPENLP_SPLASH_SCREEN_PATH
+        self.run_javascript('Display.setStartupSplashScreen("{bg_color}", "{image}");'.format(bg_color=bg_color, image=image))
+
     def set_url(self, url):
         """
         Set the URL of the webview
@@ -164,6 +174,10 @@ class DisplayWindow(QtWidgets.QWidget):
         """
         self.run_javascript('Display.init();')
         self._is_initialised = True
+        self.set_startup_screen()
+        # Make sure the scale is set if it was attempted set before init
+        if self.scale != 1:
+            self.set_scale(self.scale)
 
     def run_javascript(self, script, is_sync=False):
         """
@@ -315,4 +329,5 @@ class DisplayWindow(QtWidgets.QWidget):
         """
         Set the HTML scale
         """
+        self.scale = scale
         self.run_javascript('Display.setScale({scale});'.format(scale=scale*100))