Burn in on Plasma.

[Filterlab]

Hmmm, expected to a degree I suppose but oddly this isn't worrying me as much as I thought, and here's why:

After playing Oblivion for 6 hours straight, I turned off the PlayStation and when the screen went blank I thought I'd have a shufty at the screen.

I noticed that at the bottom of the screen there was a very faint image of the health-ometer and compass. However, after about half an hour of normal broadcast stuff I switched back to black screen and the burn in had gone.

So, it seems the pixels return to their normal state after a while without the image that caused the burn in being displayed. Or maybe it's just because my TV is fairly new (about March I bought it).

Anyone else had this?

[Greenmatiz2]

That's not burn-in. The new buzz-word by the Plasma-making industry is "image retention." It's more politically-correct, and doesn't scare off potential sales.

Do a search on avsforum.com under displays, and you'll see comments much the same.

By the way, the same thing happens with my plasma.

[GoldenRedux]

Moved to Home Theater Discussion.

[Filterlab]

Originally Posted by Greenmatiz2

That's not burn-in. The new buzz-word by the Plasma-making industry is "image retention." It's more politically-correct, and doesn't scare off potential sales.

Do a search on avsforum.com under displays, and you'll see comments much the same.

By the way, the same thing happens with my plasma.

Cheers, I'll have a gawps.

[GreenMotion]

My Panasonics do it as well. No worries, as you said it will go away by itsself after a while.

[CJS234]

Don't the newer models of plasmas eliminate the whole burn-in (I don't like being politically correct) thing? I thought they did.....

[partridge]

I think if you leave an image on a plasma for hours and hours and hours and hours, days, etc, etc, then it can get permanently burned. But as I understand it, it is much less of a problem than it was a couple of years ago.

[Blu Tiger]

I have the pioneer Pro-FHD1, and a few weeks ago, I passed out while playing videogames. I woke up in the morning and realized it was on the pause screen all night. When the screen was all white, I could see the paused image retention on the screen. I freaked out, but it went away after a couple days. Man that really scared me, but I'm kinda glad it happened cuz now I'm not really worried about screen burn anymore.

[Filterlab]

Originally Posted by kiddtigger

I have the pioneer Pro-FHD1, and a few weeks ago, I passed out while playing videogames. I woke up in the morning and realized it was on the pause screen all night. When the screen was all white, I could see the paused image retention on the screen. I freaked out, but it went away after a couple days. Man that really scared me, but I'm kinda glad it happened cuz now I'm not really worried about screen burn anymore.

Man, I bet that was a freaky moment!

Still, good to know that it disappeared after a while. I'm just loading up Oblivion now to check something.

[Filterlab]

Hmmm, I'd hoped that there was a 'screen centre' option. If there was I could suggest every half an hour putting the game on to pause and moving the screen settings by half an inch.

Still, I know some games can do that so it may be worth bearing in mind for those fragile of confidence.

[SixAxiS]

I used to have temporary image burns on my lcd. (usually when they have a scene where the screen fades to black; I can still see some of the previous picture before it). That only happened when I played DVDs on my PS3, but now it all works fine.