Burn-in on Plasma
 

I am looking at Panasonic TH-42PD50U 42 inch Plasma. I will be
watching a lot of 4:3 broadcasts. I have seen what they look like in
the caroius stretched modes and doesn't look right to tme. How
concerned should I be about burn-in while watching 4:3 with the black
bars on the sides?







;3

Burn-in on Plasma
 

While burn-in is avoidable, you should be concerned about this as a very
realistic issue for extended viewing periods of the same type of material.
To alleviate burn-in potential, you should do the following things...

1. Be very careful of what you watch/how you use the display the first one
or two hundred hours (few months)
2. Turn down brightness and contrast levels out of the box so they aren't
as severe.
3. Turn 'grey bars' on for your satellite or cable box so there are not
'black bars' on the side of the image when watching 4:3 material.
4. Learn to like one of the 'stretch' modes such as 'wide zoom' or
'panorama' or one of the other ones that fills your screen completely with
material.
5. Make sure burn-in protection, especially pixel shifting is turned 'ON'
in the plasma (see owners manual)
6. Whenever possible, watch HD material which completely fills the screen.
7. Avoid video games that have permanent scoring or statistics in one of
the corners. Big bummer to get burn-in this way!

If one of those options is just to much for you, then perhaps you may want
to consider a LCD display like the new Westinghouse 42" model. While it may
not be as pristine as the Panasonic with image quality, it is LCD and
therefore does not suffer from burn-in at all.

~P~

"Jay1028" wrote in message
...
I am looking at Panasonic TH-42PD50U 42 inch Plasma. I will be
watching a lot of 4:3 broadcasts. I have seen what they look like in
the caroius stretched modes and doesn't look right to tme. How
concerned should I be about burn-in while watching 4:3 with the black
bars on the sides?







;3

Burn-in on Plasma
 

Good advice, but no need to go overboard on this past the first 100
hours or so. I have a Panasonic plasma and watch a fair amount of 4:3
material and have yet to see even a hint of burn-in after 16 months. I
rarely stretch the 4:3 stuff because it makes the picture look odd. I
have had image retention several times (bright white text left on for a
while), but that has always faded after a few minutes.

Alan F


~P~ wrote:
While burn-in is avoidable, you should be concerned about this as a very
realistic issue for extended viewing periods of the same type of material.
To alleviate burn-in potential, you should do the following things...

1. Be very careful of what you watch/how you use the display the first one
or two hundred hours (few months)
2. Turn down brightness and contrast levels out of the box so they aren't
as severe.
3. Turn 'grey bars' on for your satellite or cable box so there are not
'black bars' on the side of the image when watching 4:3 material.
4. Learn to like one of the 'stretch' modes such as 'wide zoom' or
'panorama' or one of the other ones that fills your screen completely with
material.
5. Make sure burn-in protection, especially pixel shifting is turned 'ON'
in the plasma (see owners manual)
6. Whenever possible, watch HD material which completely fills the screen.
7. Avoid video games that have permanent scoring or statistics in one of
the corners. Big bummer to get burn-in this way!

If one of those options is just to much for you, then perhaps you may want
to consider a LCD display like the new Westinghouse 42" model. While it may
not be as pristine as the Panasonic with image quality, it is LCD and
therefore does not suffer from burn-in at all.

~P~

"Jay1028" wrote in message
...
I am looking at Panasonic TH-42PD50U 42 inch Plasma. I will be
watching a lot of 4:3 broadcasts. I have seen what they look like in
the caroius stretched modes and doesn't look right to tme. How
concerned should I be about burn-in while watching 4:3 with the black
bars on the sides?

Burn-in on Plasma
 

it is LCD and therefore does not suffer from burn-in at all.

Not completly true, At my job we have a LCD monitor displayed the same
picture (program) on a 24/7 base for a year. This now has has burn in
marks ;) .

Burn-in on Plasma
 

"Warzel" wrote in message
...
it is LCD and therefore does not suffer from burn-in at all.

Not completly true, At my job we have a LCD monitor displayed the same
picture (program) on a 24/7 base for a year. This now has has burn in
marks ;) .

Actually, LCDs cannot "burn in". What you see is called persistence. Just
display an all white image for several hours and the "burn in" will go away.
You cannot cure plasmas this way once true burn in has happened.

Tim McTeague

Burn-in on Plasma
 

Thanks ~P~ . Alan, that makes me feel better. I'll just keep the
brightness and contrast down to an acceptable level and do the grey
bar thing.

Jay

Burn-in on Plasma
 

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:44:30 GMT, Jay1028 wrote:

Thanks ~P~ . Alan, that makes me feel better. I'll just keep the
brightness and contrast down to an acceptable level and do the grey
bar thing.

Jay

My Panasonic TH-37PX50U gives me the option of selecting the shade of
the gray bars on the sides. The default was too bright so I've
changed it to medium.