new plasma.. break in procedure?

[JENKS]

Well chalk me up for one of the guys that did a break in procedure. I followed a calibrators reccomendation for break in off of a thread I found on Avs forum. I purchased my panny 65v10 8/23 and it finally showed up at the store on wednesday 9/2. I got it home and set it up in the front room by itself hooked up to a surge pretector with lots of room to breath. I put the break in images on a sd card and put it in the tv, and set it to slide show at 30 second intervals. I ran this tv for 7 days straight only turning it off once for about 2 hours. I was at first wary of running it that long continuously but I kept monitoring the temps of the unit to be sure it wasn't out of control and it was always fine. The reason I chose to do this is it ages the phospors and pixels evenly thus allowing me to break it in without worrying about what I am watching or gaming. The other benefit is you can get it calibrated sooner because you will have 150 hours quickly. I had over 160 hours of run time after the 7 days. I then took my old tv in the living room down and put the new beast in its home. I have done all day gaming and all day football yesterday with no image retention whatsoever. I am really glad I went this route and would advise you do the same if you have any worries at all. My tv is scheduled to be calibrated on 9/27.