Playing movies on Plasma TV

Nameless_87

Nameless_87

Nameless_87

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Hi,

I have a Panny 65VT30 and I am past 200 hrs of break in using the colour slides.

I have an HTPC from which I will be streaming blu-ray movies from my server. I tried this out yesterday and everything was fine.

What is troubling me is this:
Most movies will have the black top and bottom bars (widescreen).
Will this cause burn in? (uneven aging of the phosphors since the top and bottom won't be lit up as much as the middle part of the TV).

I can use the zoom function on the plasma which enlarges the image and removes the black bars... however i don't quite like it, even because i watch a movie with subtitles and some of them will be cut out!

If for example I watch a 2 hour movie with black bars and then I watch something else in fullscreen... will this prevent the burn in?

Or a I worrying too much?

Thanks
 
I think your worrying to much.

But i understand why, we bought our first plasma in september and I was bricking it about possible burn in, after 3 months of ownership the only issues I've encountered is slight image retention. This isn't a big deal though as if you run the sliding bar in the setting menu for a couple of minutes it clears up pretty quickly. Anything that doesn't should disappear over night.

Don't fret, just avoid high brightness settings, i.e dynamic use thx or movie. And enjoy your new panny, it's a beast.
 
Thank you guys :)

I am using professional 1 with these settings:
setting current/max
contrast 36/60
brightness 0 (in the middle exactly)
color 30/60
sharpness 0/10
Color remaster off
eco-mode off
P-NR off

In advanced settings then:
24p smooth film: max
Resolution enhancer: Mid
Side Panel: High
16:9 overscan: off (to retain a just image!)
Pixel Orbiter: On

Any of these that I should tweek? (THX is almost the same).

Thanks again!
 
If your happy with those settings then I'd leave it at that. If you wanted to play further have you had a look at the avsforums avchd test disc download? Pretty handy dl with a tutorial explaining all the basics you need to know.

What film where you planing to christen your new addition with? (this has nowt to do with picture quality. I'm just being nosy :p)
 
Having the contrast set too high is what will cause image retention/screen burn. Just make sure you don't have it set too high and you'll be fine, enjoy the set. I'd recommend heading over to Avforums and check to out the plasma 3d section for you TV. There'll be plenty of quetions answered there for you, including picture settings.
 
ignore the brightness comment I made wizzfizz is right. I'd only been awake an hour when I wrote that :o

We don't have sky :( only freeview hd :mad:
 
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