Burn in time on Plasmas.

[SDon1969]

Originally Posted by kpkelley

Have you calibrated the display?

An LCD shouldn't get IR unless you leave it at the factory "vivid" settings, in which case you could be shortening the life of the television.

It's probably not under warranty anymore, being more than a year.

Yeah, it's driving me crazy. It is model LN-T4061F. What happens is this:

As soon as I bought the TV in January 2008, I checked out this site & others for best settings. I took it off dynamic/vivid right away, and set the video so as to be pleasing to my eye but also used a lot of user settings found on this site as the starting point. Backlight and Contrast are down to respectable levels and not cranked up.

So a month or so ago, I notice that I can see where black bar lines are going through my Comcast TV image. I started a thread here about it but it didn't get many responses.

It is definitely retaining an image. I can play XBOX or PS3, and then go to TV and I see certain images (health bar, for example). I can watch a 2.35:1 blu-ray, and then a 1.85:1 behind it, and the top & bottom of the screen are tinted green. Very distracting & ugly. The only cure I've found is to just shut it off for a little while, then I seem to get a fresh start with no image retention. I'm not sure what's going on...

My original thread about this: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...mage+retention
I didn't have all my facts straight. For example, I thought this was only happening when the TV had been on for several hours. I no longer think that's true.