ArtofAngels said:
That's a load of crap, you people talk like pixels will burn in if you leave an image for 5 mins, It'd literally take hours to burn in a pixel, Wii has a burn in reduction feature, if the Wii has had no CPU activity for so long it will assume a still screen is on and will dim the colours until a button is pressed, and more then most Plasmas these days also have features, my Plasma detects what pixels have stayed for too long without change and will refresh the screen. SHEEEEEESH!!!! Get this through your heads! Please! I've had my Plasma for a year and as far as I know there is no such thing as this half/life crap, maybe in proto-types. My Plasma is only on 50% brightness atm and turning it up 5 points hurts the eyes, it's incredibly bright, that's one of my favourite feature of Plasmas, the colours are so bright and vibrant. |
There is a such thing as half life crap. It takes between 8-18 years to reach at moderate usage levels depending on the quality of the set, so it's not a HUGE concern, just a fact. I did high end custom home theater for 2 years, I've taken classes, I've read many articles, I've studied the different technologies. Most people don't even notice the decrease in image quality because it happens so slowly, you won't see any change at all because you've only had yours a year.
Burn in times vary depending on the type of plasma. Newer ones are somewhat better but not much. When I did home theater, our customers that watched a lot of CNN would have the CNN logo burned into their TVs within a few months. Another thing that can cause burn in is watching programming with side bars or dvds that have black bars above and below the image.
http://www.plasmasaver.com/burnin.html
