Plasma TV Burn In

brett108

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So, my wife bought me a plasma tv(1080p Panasonic). I have had it for a few months, and have had no problems. Unfortunately, I had a 6-8 hour marathon with Darksiders yesterday, and now when I turned it on, I am seeing some serious burn in where my sub weapon wheel was and my health bar. The question is is there a way to fix this?
 
it will go away, I get them if someone leaves wii paused for a bit, but after a few hours of moving images, it goes away. The only time you can see it is in an all black screen.
 
So, my wife bought me a plasma tv(1080p Panasonic). I have had it for a few months, and have had no problems. Unfortunately, I had a 6-8 hour marathon with Darksiders yesterday, and now when I turned it on, I am seeing some serious burn in where my sub weapon wheel was and my health bar. The question is is there a way to fix this?

2002 called and it wants its tv back
 
There's also a remedy...in the setup menu there's a scrolling bar you can use to "erase" the burn in.
 
Did you do a proper burn in when the TV was new?

When my plasma was new, I ran it for 200+ hours on different colored slides. This aged the pixels very evenly and made it "work in" so to speak. I can play games with HUDs, 4:3 content, and movies, and none leave in a burn, even after 3-4 hours.

What you are probably seeing isn't burn in quite yet. Burn in happens over a longer period of time. You are probably still seeing ghosting, which will occur to some degree after anything you watch on a plasma. Just run that built in scroller for a while and you should be fine.

If you want more info on the slides,I can probably hook you up with them. I got them over on the AV forums.
 
Did you do a proper burn in when the TV was new?

When my plasma was new, I ran it for 200+ hours on different colored slides. This aged the pixels very evenly and made it "work in" so to speak. I can play games with HUDs, 4:3 content, and movies, and none leave in a burn, even after 3-4 hours.

What you are probably seeing isn't burn in quite yet. Burn in happens over a longer period of time. You are probably still seeing ghosting, which will occur to some degree after anything you watch on a plasma. Just run that built in scroller for a while and you should be fine.

If you want more info on the slides,I can probably hook you up with them. I got them over on the AV forums.

Send me what you can. I guess I should have done a little more pre-planning.
 
2002 called and it wants its tv back
1994 called and it wants its joke back funny guy.
1971 called and thought this was a lame reply. See what I did there.
yeah, well 1965 called and its bummed it wasn't invited to the "burn in".
Ya well 1905 telegraphed and said shut the **** up

Durp.

This thread is getting waja.
 
Only a couple of months old? That's odd. Its really difficult to get burn in on new plasmas by the better brands, like Panasonic. You really have to screw up, like leave a static image on a screen for a week. I've never owned Panasonic, but do they have scrolling bars like Samsungs?
 

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