Playing xbox on plasma Televisions
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I play Wii on my plasma, no sign of any screen burn. Theoretically yes, it can burn, but I have my plasma set at slightly less than 50% brightness and contrast (which looks superb for movies and is pretty close on the THX calibration tests) and the worse I ever saw was a few "hearts" on the screen after a long game of Zelda. The next day the hearts had faded, it was image retention rather than true screen burn.
The worst time for a plasma screen is when its brand new, the first couple of hundred hours when the phosphors are at their hottest, but as long as your sensible, and dont run the screen insanely bright it should be fine. Its just like the old CRT telly's they could get screen burn almost as easily as a plasma, but how many people used them anyway.
The worst time for a plasma screen is when its brand new, the first couple of hundred hours when the phosphors are at their hottest, but as long as your sensible, and dont run the screen insanely bright it should be fine. Its just like the old CRT telly's they could get screen burn almost as easily as a plasma, but how many people used them anyway.
I can’t think of any plasma that doesn’t have 'image retention' to some degree, but screen burn is not an big issue anymore due to sets having built in features like pixel shift, just make sure you don’t have 100% contrast mine is around 50% and let the set run in on very low contrast for the first few hundred hours use. Yes of course if you leave an image on the screen for hours and hours it will get burnt onto the screen just have to treat Plasmas with care and treat them how there meant to be used there are not LCD.
I'm sure you're mind is at rest, but just to add I use my plasma for regular gaming and haven't had any issues.
The only scare I had one morning was when I realised I'd left my Panasonic on overnight, and arrived to find a logo in the corner of the screen which was quite visible when I switched channels. Thankfully it faded away after about an hour. Phew!
The screen was only a couple of months old at that point, but even so it handled things fine so I wouldn't have any concerns, but as previously mentioned don't go nuts with the settings.
The only scare I had one morning was when I realised I'd left my Panasonic on overnight, and arrived to find a logo in the corner of the screen which was quite visible when I switched channels. Thankfully it faded away after about an hour. Phew!
The screen was only a couple of months old at that point, but even so it handled things fine so I wouldn't have any concerns, but as previously mentioned don't go nuts with the settings.
Screen burn simply isn't a problem anymore. I use my plasma screen as a computer screen for a couple of hours a day. The task bar never stays there after I switch it off. If it does, just watch some tv or put winamp visulisation on and sorted!
Nonsense!
If that was the case then the leading engineers in the field (Pioneer) wouldn't have coded and included 'Video Pattern' to help wash away image retention on their award winning Kuros!
