my cousin took advantage of his panasonic plasma which his parents foolishly gave him. He would pause his games for hours at end, never turn off tube, didn't calibrate it properly and within 3 months, you could see faint outlines of the game hud, xbox live blades etc... He would just leave his game paused and go out and play or do something stupid.
Plasma burn in has virtually disappeared except in extreme cases like my cousin's above. It's not like 7 years ago when it would burn after 2 weeks. I still blame my parents and their damn specialty channel which had a neon-yellow logo in the bottom corner.
I love plasma. It's funny how LCD's are slowly becoming what plasma's always were. With their higher contrast glossy screens, improved motion, improved angles... Why not just get a plasma from the start.
But it all comes down to perception. And because Plasma's don't stack up to the LCD's in store which are running at nuclear vivid with bright neon greens, super sky blues etc... People think the picture must be dull.
And what's even sadder, is that 90% of people will keep their picture like that for the rest of the time they have their televisions. I always calibrate as close to 6500k as possible. It was a shock to my dad to try and get him to accept that this was the way people wanted televisions to view films, etc... and that vivid was unnatural.
I've owned every type of television technology so far, save for laser tv. And although I still love my very first CRT-Rear Projo HDTV, plasma will be my favorite. But even in my house it's skewered towards LCD now. My computer monitors are LCD, my televisions in the bedroom are 32" LCD's. I have a 47" LCD in my family room, while my "older" pioneer plasma is relegated to the theatre room.
I'm going to avoid this LED nonsense until OLED comes out.
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my cousin took advantage of his panasonic plasma which his parents foolishly gave him. He would pause his games for hours at end, never turn off tube, didn't calibrate it properly and within 3 months, you could see faint outlines of the game hud, xbox live blades etc... He would just leave his game paused and go out and play or do something stupid.
Plasma burn in has virtually disappeared except in extreme cases like my cousin's above. It's not like 7 years ago when it would burn after 2 weeks. I still blame my parents and their damn specialty channel which had a neon-yellow logo in the bottom corner.
I love plasma. It's funny how LCD's are slowly becoming what plasma's always were. With their higher contrast glossy screens, improved motion, improved angles... Why not just get a plasma from the start.
But it all comes down to perception. And because Plasma's don't stack up to the LCD's in store which are running at nuclear vivid with bright neon greens, super sky blues etc... People think the picture must be dull.
And what's even sadder, is that 90% of people will keep their picture like that for the rest of the time they have their televisions. I always calibrate as close to 6500k as possible. It was a shock to my dad to try and get him to accept that this was the way people wanted televisions to view films, etc... and that vivid was unnatural.
I've owned every type of television technology so far, save for laser tv. And although I still love my very first CRT-Rear Projo HDTV, plasma will be my favorite. But even in my house it's skewered towards LCD now. My computer monitors are LCD, my televisions in the bedroom are 32" LCD's. I have a 47" LCD in my family room, while my "older" pioneer plasma is relegated to the theatre room.
I'm going to avoid this LED nonsense until OLED comes out.