Plasma burn in?
By Eve | August 27, 2008
cubbies360 asked:
Just bought a new Panasonic 1080p plasma. Although I know the chance is minimal, image retention can still occur nowadays. If I was watching a channel for a really long time that was seceptible to burn in, if I simply changed the channel very briefly every so often, would that “refresh” my screen and essentially make the process of image retention “start over”? Or would it not make any difference to change the channel if I immediately changed back to what I was previously watching?
Just bought a new Panasonic 1080p plasma. Although I know the chance is minimal, image retention can still occur nowadays. If I was watching a channel for a really long time that was seceptible to burn in, if I simply changed the channel very briefly every so often, would that “refresh” my screen and essentially make the process of image retention “start over”? Or would it not make any difference to change the channel if I immediately changed back to what I was previously watching?
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That doesn’t matter as long, even if you where watching the same picture all day, Plasma is a gas and would not burn in. Plus the station you were watching was moving pictures right??How would moving pictures burn in?
Plasma is not as susceptible to image burn-in as it once was. You would really need to be watching the same channel for over a week in order for that to happen, but that can also happen on any screen.
Changing or flipping channels briefly, every so often, won’t hurt.
I don’t think they burn anymore.
Plus not everything on the screen moves around. For example a lot of the channels have a symbol in the corner now so when Plasmas first came out they did used to burn the image onto the screen.
You should be okay now and you have a pretty decent model too. So just enjoy it!
As long as you follow the break-in period (put the set in Standard or Studio Ref/Cinema mode for the first 100 viewing hours), image retention is much less likely to happen unless you keep a static image on the screen for more than 15% of the viewing week - which is about 8 hours in most cases.
If you do notice it, generally a few minutes of regular viewing will eliminate it. Also, as for HUDs and still pictures, Panasonic televisions use pixel-shifting (barely noticeable) to also help alleviate image retention. You are no more at risk of retention on modern plasma as you would be on CRT sets these days. Really, I wouldn’t worry about it.