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Raistline on 02 February 2010
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Feylic said:
Vetteman94 said:
suoturska said:
Vetteman94 said:
suoturska said:
You don't want a 100Hz tv for gaming. Motion interpolation reduces motion blur but it also adds input lag, making it undesirable for gaming. So you'd just have it disabled anyway.

If you intend to watch lots of sports on it, get a 100Hz one. If you don't it'd just be a waste of money.

Oh, and motion blur is an LCD issue, plasmas don't suffer from it. In fact a plasma will beat even a 100Hz LCD when it comes to motion handling.

Well of course a Plasma will beat an LCD at motion handling but they are not suitable for gaming. The burn in issue that Plasmas still have make them a bigger problem than any small amount of input lag that a 100Hz LCD will have.

Plasmas haven't had any burn-in issues for ages. Image retention, sure, but burn-in is a thing of the past.


Same issue, different name.  And no its not a thing of the past, it does still happen.  And in some cases there are ways of reversing it, but that isnt always the case

It is not the same issue. Burn can be permanent. Image retention is not permanent. Either way, any permanent effect that can occur to a plasma screen will not occur under normal use, including gaming for hours at a time.

If the majority of the TV's life is used to play a game that has the same static HUB or watching a sports programs that havce the exact same layout, you will get burn in over time with a plasma. In fact, even some badly made LCD's can get the same, but it takes much longer for an LCD. Have you ever seen a plasma at a bar that has never left the sports channels. After a lenght of time when it goes to commercial, you can still see the bar across the top or bottom where the scores were once displayed.

I have a Plasma at work that is used for displaying important information that has the same format, When you change the input, you can still the the after image.

Burn in has been reduced, but not eliminated with new plasma TV's. It has been and will always be a problem with and will always be a problem with the technology. Despite what your local "Best Buy TV expert" tells you.