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Originally Posted by repete66211

I do not think you would need to break the TV in again after hibernation, but then since all of the break-in business seems to be theoretical your guess is as good as mine.

From what I've read,
"The purpose of the break-in settings is to get the brightness up pretty high to saturate the RGB channels to evenly wear the phosphors during the first part of their life where they age the quickest to have a consistent image as their aging slows.

Try to imagine the pixels of the display, each are made up of 3 different phosphors: red, green, and blue. When these phosphors are struck with electrons (shed by the gas in the panel when excited to the plasma state) they'll glow with their individual colors. Over time quality of this glow changes. The biggest change happens over approximately the first 150 hours they spend glowing (at maximum intensity, a dimmer glow ages slower).

If you just watch normal programming content each phosphor will have spend a much different amount of time in its on state. Though eventually every dot on the screen will be past the 150 hour mark they'll all be reaching it at different times. The purpose of the full-screen colors is to age every pixel through that 150 hours at exactly the same rate.

In the long term every pixel will be past the 150 hour mark. It is the medium term when some are relatively fresh compared to others (think about station logos or black bars aging parts of the screen faster or slower) you may end up with some inconsistencies across the panel.
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