| naznatips said: The only real issues with Plasmas is they burn a lot more power than LCDs. Screen burn-in is a myth. You would have to leavea a modern Plasma on with a static image for more than a week for burn-in, and the half-life of modern plasmas is 60,000 hours +, so they should last most people at least 10 years. |
I wouldn't call it a myth.
Watching a majority of boxed content stuff - either 2.35:1, 4:3 or both - is very likely to quickly cause "burn in". So much so, that most recent plasma TVs use very bright and annoying (IMO) grey bars instead of black on 4:3 content (which is the majority of programing accessible in many parts of the world). And on 2.35:1 content, the bars usually come with the package and they'll be black, so you either zoom (which might not be an option with subtitles), or tough luck. Some badly done TV channel logos will also burn in pretty quickly, as will sports statistics and stuff (which a lot of people want an HDTV for).
A lot of this is recoverable with time (and screen savers), but permanent burn in is still a problem in my experience. At work, we got permanent burn in on 20 plasma screens we used for less than a week in an interactive marketing application on a shopping mall. Yes, that would never have happened on normal content, but I'm sure a Wii, even with display dimming, if left on for a few hours on the main menu, would cause at least temporary damage on most plasmas in the market today. And watching 80%+ of 2.35:1 and 4:3 content with black bars and pillars would certainly cause permanent visible damage in less than a year on all but the most expensive plasmas I know, that's for sure. For me, that's unacceptable. I maybe careful, but I do want to watch movies and regular TV on their native formats without constant worry for the health of my €1000+ purchase.
