Plasma TVs and burn-in

Do plasma tellies suffer from burn-in or is that an urban myth? A mate
of mine really really fancies a plasma to replace his old crt set.
Problem is he has a number of cctv cameras around his garden used for
watching the wildlife that visits. These cameras are on rather more
than any of the broadcast programmes via a box which gives him a grid of
8 pictures. Would he be risking it a bit with a plasma and if so how
long does burn-in take to happen, months or years?

Mines an LCD set so I can't really help him.

Bob

"Dhropta Guli" wrote in message
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Do plasma tellies suffer from burn-in or is that an urban myth? A mate of
mine really really fancies a plasma to replace his old crt set. Problem is
he has a number of cctv cameras around his garden used for watching the
wildlife that visits. These cameras are on rather more than any of the
broadcast programmes via a box which gives him a grid of 8 pictures.
Would he be risking it a bit with a plasma and if so how long does burn-in
take to happen, months or years?

Mines an LCD set so I can't really help him.

Bob

It's far from a myth Bob, it's the most impotent negative attribute
of these PDPs. In your mate's case I would expect burn-in to be
apparent quite quickly. Talk him out of it.

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Graham.

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In normal use I much prefer the picture on a good plasma tv to an LCD
of a similar size but I definitely would not use one in the case you
are describing.
Permanent damage may take a little time but even if you have satellite
radio on a plasma for quite a short time (15 to 20 mins) with the
usual static radio display screen, you will see the image for some
time after changing channels.
I was given a plasma screen some time ago with such an amount of
screen burn from a large on screen channel logo that it was unusable.

It's far from a myth Bob, it's the most impotent negative attribute
of these PDPs.

Yes I know, I know!
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Graham.

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A doubly senior moment perhaps :-)

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:55:01 +0100, "Graham." wrote:

It's far from a myth Bob, it's the most impotent negative attribute
of these PDPs.

Yes I know, I know!

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Graham. wrote:
"Dhropta Guli" wrote in message
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Do plasma tellies suffer from burn-in or is that an urban myth? A mate of
mine really really fancies a plasma to replace his old crt set. Problem is
he has a number of cctv cameras around his garden used for watching the
wildlife that visits. These cameras are on rather more than any of the
broadcast programmes via a box which gives him a grid of 8 pictures.
Would he be risking it a bit with a plasma and if so how long does burn-in
take to happen, months or years?

Mines an LCD set so I can't really help him.

Bob

It's far from a myth Bob, it's the most impotent negative attribute
of these PDPs. In your mate's case I would expect burn-in to be
apparent quite quickly. Talk him out of it.

Thanks for the info. I'll try to talk him out of it.
Bob

"Dhropta Guli" wrote in message
...
Do plasma tellies suffer from burn-in or is that an urban myth? A mate of
mine really really fancies a plasma to replace his old crt set. Problem is
he has a number of cctv cameras around his garden used for watching the
wildlife that visits. These cameras are on rather more than any of the
broadcast programmes via a box which gives him a grid of 8 pictures.
Would he be risking it a bit with a plasma and if so how long does burn-in
take to happen, months or years?

Mines an LCD set so I can't really help him.

Bob

I wouldn't bother with power hungry and OLD technology such as Plasma.
Tell your mate to get a new LED Samsung TV. Pictures are far better than
LCD and way better than Plasma. Why buy a 10 year old TV!
You do get burn-in on Plasma, especially on channels with DOGS, that's
why people hate them.

"Clive" wrote in message
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"Dhropta Guli" wrote in message
...
Do plasma tellies suffer from burn-in or is that an urban myth? A mate
of mine really really fancies a plasma to replace his old crt set.
Problem is he has a number of cctv cameras around his garden used for
watching the wildlife that visits. These cameras are on rather more than
any of the broadcast programmes via a box which gives him a grid of 8
pictures. Would he be risking it a bit with a plasma and if so how long
does burn-in take to happen, months or years?

Mines an LCD set so I can't really help him.

Bob

I wouldn't bother with power hungry and OLD technology such as Plasma.
Tell your mate to get a new LED Samsung TV. Pictures are far better than
LCD and way better than Plasma. Why buy a 10 year old TV!
You do get burn-in on Plasma, especially on channels with DOGS, that's
why people hate them.



Plasma sounds sexy!

I am going to watch my Plasma sounds better than going home to watch my LCD.

"Dhropta Guli" wrote in message
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Do plasma tellies suffer from burn-in or is that an urban myth? A mate
of mine really really fancies a plasma to replace his old crt set.
Problem is he has a number of cctv cameras around his garden used for
watching the wildlife that visits. These cameras are on rather more
than any of the broadcast programmes via a box which gives him a grid of
8 pictures. Would he be risking it a bit with a plasma and if so how
long does burn-in take to happen, months or years?

Mines an LCD set so I can't really help him.

Bob

I wouldn't bother with power hungry and OLD technology such as Plasma.
Tell your mate to get a new LED Samsung TV. Pictures are far better than
LCD and way better than Plasma. Why buy a 10 year old TV!
You do get burn-in on Plasma, especially on channels with DOGS, that's
why people hate them.



Plasma sounds sexy!

And is often used a generic term for any flat screen of any size or
technology.
And "flat screen" itself is a misnomer, I mean modern CRT faceplates are
flat,
The screen on a RPTV is flat.

They should have called them thin-screens.

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Graham.

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"Clive" wrote:


I wouldn't bother with power hungry and OLD technology such as Plasma.
Tell your mate to get a new LED Samsung TV. Pictures are far better than
LCD and way better than Plasma.

Samsung 'LED' TVs are LCD. The rest of your comments are similarly
accurate.
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