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Plasma burn-in, what plasma burn-in?

Posted by patriot (A) on February 20, 2007 at 22:55:08

In Reply to: Is there a definitive plasma break-in guide out there? posted by dingo dave on February 20, 2007 at 15:00:17:

My experience with plasmas have been one without worries relating to burn-ins. During the last five years, I have owned the Panasonic TH-50PHD5UY, 7UY, 8UK, as well as the TH-42PWD8. I, like many people, used these sets to watch wide screen movies with black bars and play video games. I did not do anything special like turn down the picture brightness or watched full screen only for the first 100 hours. To me, plasmas are not the delicate devices salespeople and magazines like to have you think. My conspiracy theory (haha) is that for the longest time, plasmas were indeed very expensive, much more so than LCD, so salespeople were not able to sell them as easily, therefore not making much commission selling them. They then figured if it was easier to sell ten lower priced LCD's than two plasmas, then tell the customers plasmas burn in very easily, leaving them a disaster on your hands. Never mind that the picture quality of a Panny plasma blew and still blows away that of any LCD's ... shhhh ... don't mention that. Funny how burn in has become such an issue with plasmas and not with good old fashioned CRT's, both being phosphors based. I never experienced burn in with CRT's either and back in 1989, I owned a Proton and watched wide screen laserdiscs on it, black bars and all, no burn in. That 27" was a heck of a set, one of the best in black level reproduction, absolutely slaughtered the Sony's then. Some of you might remember.

Anyway, plasma's king. Any set that's deeper (all RPTV's) or sacrifices black level (LCD's) are compromises of size, weight, and picture quality. If you don't have a dedicated TV viewing room with light control and must use your family room or living room to watch in, then simply buy some "home theater curtains"; they are available at Fred Meyers for $28. Maybe this goes without saying, but don't put your screen opposite a bank of windows if you don't want to be watching the beautiful outdoors reflected on your screen - there, I said it anyway.

Go plasma!

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