Question on plasma burn-in

I have read that it's not much of a factor with the newer plasmas. My Pioneer Kuro 6020 has an 'orbiter' feature to protect it from burn in.

Owner o a panny plasma and I have played many hours straight of PS3 and nothing we have had moviethons of 3-4 movies some with the "black bars" and nothing. There are some products out there which can help with screen washes, of which I use one every once in a while.

Sorry, just to add our plasma is just 1yr old.

Another anecdotal story on my panasonic 42" plasma (bought in 2005). I actually was drunk one night watching a movie on television and paused the damn thing then went and passed out without turning the TV off... a good 8+ hours later I discovered my TV with the DVR pause bar, letterbox bars, etc and thought i had torched my plasma. It had a little DVR-pause bar ghosting for a few days, but it went away.

So i would definitely say you are fine watching movies, since i dont lots of that. And i even play a far amount of video games on the same TV and never had an issue... Hopefully this helps

Jason

KrazyMofo24 wrote: »

Thanks for the information guys. I didn't want to have zoom in the letterbox for movies. I'm really liking the tv so far happy with the decision.

Do your self a favor if you have not adjusted factory settings and tweak it to the setting at CNET, you will be surprised how much better it will look.

I watch standard cable and TV streched to fill the screen. DVD's I watch in whatever format they come in (Letterbox, widescreen, 2.35:1, full screen whatever) and we have not had an issues in the last year.

Hitachi 50" directors series.

I wouldn't worry about burn-in. I've had the plasma on all day without any issues (with sidebars). My buddies older Samsung is bad with burn-in. You watch a movie (and video games) and he has major burn-in.

I've never heard of a plasma having ghosting problems, always thought that was an issue with LCD's? The reason they came out with 120hz.

That scenario sounds like burn-in to me, not ghosting. I've always thought ghosting was when you are watching some fast moving/action flick and the object associated looks like it's trailing.

okiepolkie wrote: »

I know what you are talking about, and I seem to remember it being image retention. "Ghosting" would also be a fair term for it.

It isn't full burn in, but some images, like the ticker or channel logo, will leave a small "outline" of the image. Not all plasmas do this, and I haven't seen a Panasonic or Pioneer do it for quite some time. I've noticed it on a few Sanyo and NEC plasmas that have been installed in the past.

It's as mentioned here: image retention, the reason I called it ghosting is that it's barely there you can see it but can see through it kinda like a ghost. But the term is Image retention.

So all that to say just know the difference between Burn in and Image retention.

One of my friends has a plasma with "pixel shifting". It's jumps the image back and forth a single pixel and it keeps images from burning. He says since it's such a small shift, you can't even notice it, but I haven't seen it with my own eyes. They have had the TV a little over a year.