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In Reply to: RE: Sorry about your problem, this is why I'm not a Plasma owner nt posted by Brian A on September 04, 2012 at 15:27:47

The great majority of burn-in issues come from people who have little understanding of display technology and owners who haven't properly calibrated their displays.

Every display technology has its pros and cons. For me, plasma displays have fewer cons than other display technologies and that's why I own them. My kids probably know more about what to do and what not to do with the 3 plasmas in my house than most adults. Some people just don't have a clue, at times no fault of their own, but unfortunately they are the reason for threads similar to this one.

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Sorry - b 15:38:50 09/05/12 (0)
My wife and kids would have any plasma coughing up pixels in a month.
I would burn in any plasma I owned and here's why - mbnx01 12:20:28 09/05/12 (4)
I do not watch tv. Ever. No sports. No cable. No satellite.

I watch movies and tv shows on bluray and dvd.

It's about half movies and the majority (90% I'd say) of them do not fit the screen completely.

I'd have to run a bit-flipper every night to get those movies from burning in horizontal lines on my set.

If you watch a lot of material that doesn't fill the whole screen plasma is not for you.

"Lock up when you're done and don't touch the piano."
-Dr. Greg House
- RE: I would burn in any plasma I owned and here's why - Hornlover 08:41:03 09/06/12 (1)
  We watch a lot of movies, of which many do not fill the screen, so we have the black bands at the top and bottom of the screen, but have never had any issues with burn-in (but then we only watch maybe two movies in one night). I would think that to have any burn-in, you would need to watch a lot more than that at one time. Ours is a 50" Panasonic plasma.
  - Same here. I've not had any burn in issues with my Panny Plasma either. - Raiderman 09:18:31 09/06/12 (0)
    It is a 58" plasma and it is a couple of years old too.
    
    In addition to watching TV, DVDs and Blu-rays, we also use it for video games, (XBOX 360 and the Wii).
    
    Never any burn in issues at all.
    
    My guess is that the O.P.'s house guest left the machine on pause for an entire week.
- blame the broadcast, display and movie industry for that - Joe Murphy Jr 14:09:30 09/05/12 (1)
  You are a prime candidate for non-plasma displays, especially if what you watch has to be OAR -- no matter what.
  
  The aspect ratio we have now, 1.78:1, came about due to a poor and asinine compromise made by the broadcast/display industry because the movie industry acted like a bunch of snobs (and still do, actually). They basically added an aspect ratio hadn't existed.
  
  And by the way, watch enough content on your new display that isn't 1.78:1 and you'll have a similar problem. It takes a bit longer to happen, but with LCD it's called brown-in: a discoloration (a tannish tinge) of the area of the screen that's most used.
  - RE: blame the broadcast, display and movie industry for that - mbnx01 16:27:03 09/05/12 (0)
    Thanks for the brown-in tip, I'll run my Disney bit-flipper from time to time.
    
    "Lock up when you're done and don't touch the piano."
    -Dr. Greg House

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