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Who here games on Plasma?

Atty

Atty

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Any problems? I'm looking to replace my LED LCD Samsung with a bigger and better Panasonic Plasma (better in terms of all the reviews I've read).

Never used a Plasma to game on - any problems? Lag?

I've used LCD screens for years so I'm familiar with them. I primarily play FPS games so response time is important.
 
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The only concern I'd have about gaming on a plasma is the same as using a plasma in general: make sure you run color slides for a couple hundred hours before you use the set to minimize the risk of burn in. You don't want to be seeing the HUD from your favorite game showing up when you're trying to watch TV.
 
Atomic Playboy said:
The only concern I'd have about gaming on a plasma is the same as using a plasma in general: make sure you run color slides for a couple hundred hours before you use the set to minimize the risk of burn in. You don't want to be seeing the HUD from your favorite game showing up when you're trying to watch TV.
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it can still happen

i ran the slides for 300 hours on mine it was a year old when i started playing BF3 on it the hud is pertinently burned in. You can only see it on a white background (think snow) but its there and you can see the outline of the health and ammo numbers still and i stopped playing BF3 on it 8 months ago.
 
shingletingle said:
Did you not think to simply look this up on Google?
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I have a few times. Got a lot of interesting short term reviews and articles and loads of unintelligent comments from blithering idiots ranting on.

I asked here because I wanted real opinions from users who've been using them for more than a week and who also aren't blithering idiots.
 
I do most all of my gaming in my bedroom, on my 42 inch Panasonic Plasma.

I LOVE IT.

The living room we have a larger Vizio LCD, but in my experience between both LCDs and Plasmas, Plasma wins hands-down for gaming. The color is so vivid and vibrant, lag of course is a complete non-issue, and everything looks great on it.

Had it for about 2 years now, and I know whenever we replace the LCDs or go larger, it will be another plasma.
 
I've got a 2012 Panny Plasma 55" that I game on. The picture is wonderful and the deep blacks are awesome for gaming. Burn in isn't the problem it used to be. I've played hundreds of hours of MW4 with no issues. I know I'm in the minority but I prefer plasma to the other tech's, mainly due to blacks.
 
Screen lag is a big deal and I wish I would have went plasma rather then LCD. It's getting tougher to find plasmas tho and the only one I wanted was the Panasonic ST50
 
Been gaming on plasmas for awhile now. My PS3 has been hooked up to one since the day it was released. Never had any problems.
 
5 year old 42" Samsung here. It's not as good as plasmas today, but it still looks great, no noticeable lag.

As far as burn in, I was really worried about it when I first got the tv, because people talk like plasmas are so sensitive and leaving a static image on could ruin your tv forever. Don't listen to them, it's not a problem on my tv, and I'm sure it's even less a problem on today's. I get some image retention, but I never notice while gaming or watching movies, only when I'm specifically looking for it on an all black screen do I see it.
 
exdeath said:
Can't stand plasma. So much noise in the pixels. Static solid color and the pixels "glitter".
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Trust this. I went through a period of trying to get a large-format display for PC gaming. Tried lcd tvs (horrible), tried panasonic plasma (pixel glitter is what it looks like, I think there's a name for it, but basically if you sit too close, the pixels are never "still", so for moving pictures it's fine, but as a monitor--forget it!), and settled for a 27" 120hz (3d, though I never use it for that) monitor.

I really really wish that the 120hz lcd tvs would at least offer 120hz input. This incremental cost would likely be <$10, since they already and I'd pay a premium for that. If you want to play games *and* sit close enough to do some work/internet/email, plasma is, in my opinion, not a good choice.
 
highly recommend it for games that need precision. I played a ton of super meat boy, and i tested my various tvs and found my old panasonic plasma won hands down when testing input lag. so I only play meat boy on that tv or the monitor they use for street fighter tournaments, forget which model it is.
 
exdeath said:
Can't stand plasma. So much noise in the pixels. Static solid color and the pixels "glitter".
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I know what you mean...something about plasma screens reminds me of CRT in that regard. Though not the proper terminology to describe it, LCD looks "cleaner" to me.

However, most LCD TVs I've seen have a noticeable amount of ghosting and blur compared to plasma. I can't stand it. I haven't really noticed input lag on LCD TVs except for when playing music-based games (think DDR or Guitar Hero...wow, sounds old already), but I would prefer minimal input lag. On top of that plasma generally has better blacks and color reproduction.

For me, all of that outweighs the downsides to a plasma picture. I can see why someone would not think the same, though.
 
Atomic Playboy said:
The only concern I'd have about gaming on a plasma is the same as using a plasma in general: make sure you run color slides for a couple hundred hours before you use the set to minimize the risk of burn in. You don't want to be seeing the HUD from your favorite game showing up when you're trying to watch TV.
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The whole "you need to run the slides" thing is so silly. Got a plasma last year. Didn't run any slides and guess what? My tv is fine. The tv did not blow up. The picture is great and I play a lot of FPS games.
 
I have an older Plasma i game on sometimes. No different than my new 3D Sony LCD to be honest...minus the 3D of course.
Oh and never had burn in problems with it, well not for long, i did one time leave a movie on the title screen for like, maybe 8 hours or something...forgot to turn it all off before we left. And i only saw the screen burn in for a few minutes and it was fine after that.
 
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The only things running on this will be my Xbox, Apple TV (maybe some static home screens from Airplay devices but that'll be mainly for video, rarely workflow), and my cable box that I only keep so I can have HBO Go.

From what I'm reading you all have had no problems with Plasmas and FPS (or any other lag/ghosting) and while burn in was always in the back of my head, I even more so realize its just a non-issue.

Thanks guys! 🙂
 
I much prefer my Plasma over the LCD in the bedroom. However, being that my Plasma is 65" I find that at times it isn't as sharp as my LCD. Mostly you notice it on a static image or something, like if you play an FPS game and stop to look around you can see certain things just look less sharp. That's probably due to the size of the screen relative to the resolution (still 1080p). However the color is so much better and blacks are truly black so I prefer the look.
 
shingletingle said:
The whole "you need to run the slides" thing is so silly. Got a plasma last year. Didn't run any slides and guess what? My tv is fine. The tv did not blow up. The picture is great and I play a lot of FPS games.
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Burn in is a real problem though. I was watching a basketball game at a local bar the other night and they had a nice newer Panasonic ST50. You could plainly make out the ESPN logo and sidebar burned into the screen despite the game being on Comcast Sportsnet. It was very distracting, and something that would make me incredibly unhappy if I'd just plopped down a couple grand for a TV. Any steps you can take to minimize the risk seem like a good idea.

Glad to hear your TV is working out for you. What model did you get?
 
Plasma has way better blacks than lcd. Burn in is somewhat of a problem, but plasmas now have pixel orbiters that make it much less of a problem.

LCDs also suffer burn in problems... see it all the time at sport bars.
 
Atomic Playboy said:
Burn in is a real problem though. I was watching a basketball game at a local bar the other night and they had a nice newer Panasonic ST50. You could plainly make out the ESPN logo and sidebar burned into the screen despite the game being on Comcast Sportsnet. It was very distracting, and something that would make me incredibly unhappy if I'd just plopped down a couple grand for a TV. Any steps you can take to minimize the risk seem like a good idea.

Glad to hear your TV is working out for you. What model did you get?
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I have a Panasonic 55" ST30.
 
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