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Plasma Burn-In

Posted by Jon L on October 11, 2009 at 15:36:03:
The burn-in issue does bother me, but luckily, I don't play games or computers on this TV.
One thing that does nag my mind is the fact I do watch quite a bit of 4:3 material, and the side bars causing burn-in. Or movies with bars on top and bottom.. I absolutely HATE stretched 4:3 material in "Wide" mode!
What Joe says comforts my worries, but I can't really find strong documentation elsewhere:
"Image burn-in pretty much experienced a dramatic decrease about 6 years ago with the introduction of 60,000 hour model plasmas. Even before that, there were/are simple procedures to follow and use that made this issue negligible. Nearly every plasma made in the last 3 years will not have an issue with burn-in."