Plasma Burn-In

[dmw16]

I am looking at a new TV for my new house. I was originally going to get an LCD, but I am looking more at Plasmas.

I am attracted to the improved black levels, better off-angle viewing, and better handling of fast motion.

However, I am concerned at the chance of burn-in. I watch a lot of football and play a lot of Xbox. Is burn-in still a major risk on modern plasmas? Or is more a holdover from earlier models?

I think that some stores extended warranties cover burn-in so I might go that route.

Any comments would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[sivart]

Most sets have ways to eliminate burn in. Either actively (I.e. working all the time) and / or passively (I.e. you choose when to run it).

My Plasma HDTV is 2+ years old, has no active burn in prevention and doesn't have any burn in. I watch a lot of sports.

 

[Apex]

An old test from 2005 by Pioneer:

http://www.pioneerelectronics....0Paper%20-%20FINAL.pdf

Worth the read.

Cliffs: They fed a high contrast static image to a plasma for 48 hours straight. As a result, the image was retained temporarily. After 24 hours of use, the image was completely gone.

Side note: we're generations better now, with 100k hour half-brightness times, instead of the old 60k hours.

 

[dmw16]

Pioneer Kuro it is then

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: dmw16
Pioneer Kuro it is then

Well you better move fast, because the Kuros are disappearing fast.

 

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by: JackBurton

Originally posted by: dmw16
Pioneer Kuro it is then

Well you better move fast, because the Kuros are disappearing fast.

Yeah, they are getting very difficult to find.

 

[Riverhound777]

http://www.vanns.com/shop/serv...9&ref=dynamitedata.com

It was $1800 last week, but at least they still have them in stock. I got mine earlier this year for $2000. Love it. Oh and it you are really worried about burn-in, do the break-in period. I did a break-in of 150 hours.

 

[dmw16]

The house won't be done until January so I was going to wait until closer to settlement. Is there some reason to not wait? I figure stuff will get better (or at least cheaper).

If I can't find a Kuro, it seems like Panasonic also offers some nice Plasma models

 

[sdifox]

Reality is, any phosphor based technology is susceptible to burn in. Burn in is just uneven wear on the phosphors. Not the same thing as image retention, which can be fixed easily on a PDP.

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: dmw16
The house won't be done until January so I was going to wait until closer to settlement. Is there some reason to not wait? I figure stuff will get better (or at least cheaper).

If I can't find a Kuro, it seems like Panasonic also offers some nice Plasma models

If it is January, you can almost forget about a Pioneer. However, the Samsung 8500 (LCD) may turn out to be very nice. You can also check out a Panasonic V series or wait for the next gen Panasonics.

 

[nealh]

Originally posted by: dmw16
The house won't be done until January so I was going to wait until closer to settlement. Is there some reason to not wait? I figure stuff will get better (or at least cheaper).

If I can't find a Kuro, it seems like Panasonic also offers some nice Plasma models

If you want a Pioneer Plasma you will need to buy soon, as Pioneer has exited the plasma business. They are not producing more TVs for sale. The 111s are gone. There sare some 500M/600M, 151s and 111 left.

I highly recommend you buy a 500M as it uses the internals of the 101 and has some 10G tech. so they have the best blacks period on a plasma(true for 101 and 500M only)