Plasma and gaming

[Rebel6666]

Hi all,

I have another question, I want to buy a tv for monies and games is a plasma ok with games

[kpkelley]

Yes. I've been playing games on my plasma for nearly two years without issue.

[Rebel6666]

Originally Posted by kpkelley

Yes. I've been playing games on my plasma for nearly two years without issue.

So no IR issues at all?? Well that is great thanks a lot for your answer

[Rblu-Dblu]

I play games on my plasma constantly and have no IR problems.

[thePope666]

i will get a little IR when gaming but it'll go away after i watch tv for a minute. Plasmas are great for gaming, I prefer plasma to LCD any day.

[Rebel6666]

Thanks all for your answers

[acritzer]

I play a fair amount of Xbox 360, sometimes a few hours at a time. Usually there's not a problem. But recently playing Dragon Age, which has static images of health/party members, etc. I noticed some retention when shutting the 360 down. However, this quickly goes away when you start to watch some full screen TV or movie. Never stays around after viewing other formats.

[uniquetreatone]

For the last 2 days I've been playing FFXIII for atleast 10-12 hours and no IR or Burn-in. I love this stay at home vacation.

[Lush23]

Plasmas are great for gaming.. I havent had any IR issues at all...

[lojack1976]

IR can happen, but most newer sets don't have this problem. The way the TV is setup can have a major effect. I leave my set on the higher orbiter setting and of course using sensible settings will minimize, and in the case of my set eliminate IR. I get no retention at all on my Kuro. Its setup for movie watching in a dark environment so the brightness and contrast are in check.

Newer Panasonic sets are pretty much free of IR too when setup correctly. I still hear stories of Samsung and LG sets having image retention, but I honestly haven't witnessed it on the newer sets. I've yet to see it on my mother's LG for example and my brother plays Xbox 360 on it regularly. And yes, gaming is excellent on plasma. Motion is great and there's no blurring or ghosting like what's associated with LCD gaming.

[Steve]

I've been gaming on my plasma for over 2 years now and I have no issues with IR. I can sometimes see it very faintly when the screen goes black but as soon as the picture moves and then goes back to black it's gone.

[Kyzer the Medic]

I was reading in another thread not to play ANY video games for the first 200 hours or so, which kinda blows since I am waiting for the 54" G25's to get here. Does that mean for the first few months of owning a Panasonic G25 I can't play God of War 3 ? or any other games for that matter ?

[TechPro]

Gaming on a plaz is great..lcd may be a brighter pic..

[Lush23]

Originally Posted by Kyzer the Medic

I was reading in another thread not to play ANY video games for the first 200 hours or so, which kinda blows since I am waiting for the 54" G25's to get here. Does that mean for the first few months of owning a Panasonic G25 I can't play God of War 3 ? or any other games for that matter ?

You can but just make sure you dont leave a pause screen up for a long time.. There have been times when people have gotten IR issues because they left their game on pause or the menu screen up for a long period of time...

[livingproof73]

Originally Posted by Lush23

You can but just make sure you dont leave a pause screen up for a long time.. There have been times when people have gotten IR issues because they left their game on pause or the menu screen up for a long period of time...

What is classified as a long period of time?

[Lush23]

Originally Posted by livingproof73

What is classified as a long period of time?

It depends. My buddy's brother left the 360 menu up from a game for about 6 hours. He fell asleep playing and the IR issues lasted for some time. Check other threads, people have talked about it happening to them.

[Superbitsandbob]

Just be careful.

I gamed on my plasma from the off but after playing would run some full screen content.

Actually at first when I wasn't using the TV myself I left full screen content running as a bedding in period.

[Banned User]

I've had nothing but plasma's since their release. Paid $4000 for a 720p back in the day. Its my understanding the first hundred hours to be careful, but afterwards you are OK. I was paranoid at first on that first TV. Sometimes seeing what I thought was burn in, but was actually just some image retention that always went away. On these new TV's most have a auto pixel shifter so you should have no problem.

It is true IMO that as time goes on its less likely to see burnin as the unit won't burn is bright as when it was new. I've left mine on for 8 or so hours without burn in , but that wasn't early in the TV's life. If your concerned most devices, including the PS3 and Xbox have a auto shutdown feature if left on for too long.

I just recently bought a new Plasma , about 2 months ago, and have had no issues at all. Have the same Panasonic lush has. The Panasonic VIERA TC-P50G10

[kman]

Been playing games on my 50" plasma for about a year now and have had no issues at all. I didn't wait the 200 hrs. I put in Killzone 2 right when I got my TV and enjoyed it immensely.

[Sonny]

I pastout for 10+hrs or so with the start screen from some PS3 game on my Pioneer 151FD and when I woke up I just about $hit my pants!!!! Guess what.....not even a hint of IR. (Pioneer....worth every penny.)

...and I can't say enough about how good it looks gaming on a plasma vs other tech's. It looks WAY better IMHO, from the colors to the depth ect ect ect....