Burned-in images can affect the view on your plasma TV set -- S...

Q . I started talking about plasma and LCD TVs with a man at a local electronics shop and he said that he has heard that by 2010 plasmas will be phased out due to their high cost of repairs.

[RonPDenver]

Although burn in is an issue, it can be remioved generally, with the use of a number of products such as http://www.jscreenfix.com/ or utilizing a white screen for a period of time. Generally a 6 hour (overnight) dose of 0 IRE white screen will remove your burn, so don't throw out the plasma with the bathwater!

[Gord B]

Seems to be a very biased column, possibly funded by DLP or LCD manufacturers. Its interesting to note that if you go out of your way you can burn in images onto any flat panel including LCD's.
As for DLP technology, a dieing breed, but buy into it if you want to.
DLP quality is nowhere near Plasma.
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[Daniel B]

Funny how they didn' talk about bulb/Lamp replacements for DLP. Most are at least a couple hundred dollars and if you use it for your Main TV, you will need to replace them on a semi-anuall basis. Save the money and buy a plasma now. Better picture and long life. I sell these products for a living, and am always surprised by stupid articles like this. I have never had a plasma come back for service in 12 years. I have replaced many lamps and power supplies in LCD and DLP Projection TV's. Go figure!!

[You are almost correct]

I just caught y ou article about burn-in on various television types and I would like to correct you if I may. From what I read here you had an older, projection based CRT display (an old big screen). With these kinds of television sets, you're correct, burn-in was an issue (and still is). On a CRT display, once it's got a burned in iamage, it may very likely be there forever.

Now, onto Plasma TV and it's technology....Early plasma displays were horrible with regards to burn-in. Almost any image that was static (not moving) for more than a couple of minutes would show as a burn-in and on those earlier plasma displays, this was NOT something that would be fixed with any ease at all.

However, as a consumer electronics industry professional (for almost 17 years) I can assure you that I HAVE seen the new technology in plasma displays in action and the burn-in issue has been all but totally resolved. If you do find yourself with a burn-in on a new model plasa display, it's probably because you left if on and with a static image for several days (not minutes). But even this can be fixed with relative ease. By simply putting a solid white raster screen on the display for a few minutes, the burned in image will be gone and you'll be right back to a great picture again.

I would like to say that an article like yours can be more damaging that good and that if you are personally not one who's educated on the topic, should probably NOT speak to it without some form of disclaimer that you have no idea what you're talking about.

Have a niec day.

[LXIX]

What is this, the year 2000?

Plasma Burn-in? No LCD burn-in? Are you serious?
Tier 1 plasma manufacturers have made this a non-issue and I have seen HUNDREDS of "Image Retained" LCD panels in many airports around the country.
Try doing a google search with the key words Image Persistance LCD and you will see how easy it is to burn-in an LCD panel.
If it were the year 200 you may have been correct, but technology does evolve in 7 years, get out of your cave and check it out.

[Tom H]

I advise using the white raster fix for burn-in with caution. A white raster is created by running all three CRT's (probably at or close to full brightness) at the same time. It will remove the appearance of burn-in but at the expense of "burning" the entire area of the phosphor fields in the CRT's equally for an extended period of time. That's how the burn-in portion appears to have gone away. It's kind of like driving your car with the gas pedal to the floor for 6 continuous hours.

If the burn-in that you see is too annoying, do the white raster fix once to get rid of it and from then on, don't allow a static image to be on your TV for very long.

My CRT PJTV goes to a black screen when switched to an unused input. When I pause TiVo for more than a minute or two, I just switch the TV to an unused input instead of turning it on and off so often. It goes to a black screen and burn-in will never be a problem no matter how long TiVo is paused.

This is not at all stressful for the TV as so many "power down" - "power up" cycles probably are. Also, the picture quality is at its best immediately after I resume playing because the CRT's are already hot and don't have to warm up again.

[Steve]

The above posters are correct; most of the burn issues have been resolved over the last 5 years with technology advancements.

A far larger problem lies for those who turn off their plasma sets for a brief period of time out of 'burn-in fear.' The power supply firing up repeatedly after short breaks will cause the set much greater distress. Ultimately this will substantially reduce the lifetime.

I notice no one ever mentions this despite the implications.

[Daniel]

what is a white raster screen? Or an O IEE? How do i put it up?

[DEAN CULBRETH]

MY PLASMA TV IS SHOWING A GLOW OF WHITE AROUND THE PEOPLES HEAD, THERE CLOTHES AND AROUND THERE MOUTH. IT'S VERY STRANGE LOOKING IT'S LIKE THEY GLOW.