Break in?

[Mike7300]

Can someone point me to the break in thread, thanks.. (how to break in a new tv)

[crackinhedz]

Plasma Break-In-DVD

[My_Two_Cents]

Crack mentioned it in his post, but you do understand this is for plasma only, right? No need to do this for LCD.

[SeanMF]

I was told that if you were going to get your tv calibrated though...for an lcd you need to wait 150+ hours. For plasmas it is around 200 hrs. The breakin dvd is a good idea for plasmas.

[Mike7300]

Originally Posted by seanfarley2

I was told that if you were going to get your tv calibrated though...for an lcd you need to wait 150+ hours. For plasmas it is around 200 hrs. The breakin dvd is a good idea for plasmas.

thanks, so that means u keep the tv on with the break in dvd going for 200 hours straight?

[SeanMF]

Originally Posted by Mike7300

thanks, so that means u keep the tv on with the break in dvd going for 200 hours straight?

Correct...if the tv is a plasma

[Mike7300]

ok and then once its broken in, can i wait to get it calibrated, or are you supposed to do that right after

and how does the dvd keep running for that long without having to restart it? is that possible?

[liquidice]

Originally Posted by Mike7300

ok and then once its broken in, can i wait to get it calibrated, or are you supposed to do that right after

and how does the dvd keep running for that long without having to restart it? is that possible?

I did not keep my plasma running continuously for 200 hours. I would run a full screen video maybe overnight a few times, but never left it on for that long. As far as calibration, you don't have to do it right after your done, it's not like it's going to loose that breaking you've just done. Are you calibrating yourself? If not, who are going to use and for how much? There is quite abit of discussion if this is even necessary or not. I personally haven't made up my mind. I am currently fine with the settings I've set up for myself using the AVIA disc. I re-run it about once a month or so. Of course, the big deciding factor is that I'm not going to be in this house forever, and then I'd have to do it again if I move.

[scweb13]

I posted this in another thread, but this is what I found when researching the purpose of Break-in.

"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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[Scooby Blu]

Originally Posted by scweb13

I posted this in another thread, but this is what I found when researching the purpose of Break-in.

"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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WELL Stated !