Plasma Break-In

[Russell_L]

I'll be getting a new Pioneer 5010FD plasma very soon, and I'm planning to follow my own break-in procedure of watching most everything at full screen (sacrilege!). Of course, I could just watch nothing but 'Planet Earth' for the first 100 hours (since it's 1.78:1, it would fill up the screen anyway); that wouldn't be such a bad thing.

Russell

[Kayne314]

It didn't take me too long to break in my Plasma. At about 4 to 5 hours of TV watching a day it only took me a month to cure the screen. You don't have to follow the break-in instructions to the letter, just be aware you don't leave one image on the screen too long in the first while. This doesn't rule out showing off your new purchase with an awesome Blu-Ray movie for your friends.

My new Panasonic 42PZ700 did indeed come with instructions on the first page of the manual, warning about image retention. I followed the instructions, and now if I have any image retention, it only lasts a couple of seconds while the screen is black, and disappears as soon as something appears on the screen. As newer models come out, this will be less and less of an issue.

Lowering the brightness when you first get the TV to a calibrated level will also help prevent Burn in. The brighter the image, the stronger the retention. Plasma TVs are always set with too much brightness and contrast from the factory. Lower those settings down, and this issue becomes almost moot.

[zombieking]

Originally Posted by Russell_L

I'll be getting a new Pioneer 5010FD plasma very soon, and I'm planning to follow my own break-in procedure of watching most everything at full screen (sacrilege!). Of course, I could just watch nothing but 'Planet Earth' for the first 100 hours (since it's 1.78:1, it would fill up the screen anyway); that wouldn't be such a bad thing.

Russell

Dude there's a ton of full image blurays. I think there was even a thread on here listing them all