Plasma Burn-In - Are you a victim?

[greencode]

I have a Panasonic HD 42" Plasma about 4 months old. I know other people on these forums have the same TV. Now, I am happy with this TV. It's big and beautiful, and the colour definition is amazing.

The plasma burn-in issue worried me before buying a plasma. Most say 8th generation panels are not really a concern anymore. But it is.

Contrast amd brightness are set to 50 but I have an artifact that remains from playing Oblivion.

It is impossible to see unless I have my eye about 2 inches from the screen with no signal to the TV. An area that shows the heart (healing) spell, and the rectangular interface to the right is slightly less bright than the surrounding area.

Like I said, it is very, very slight. But it irks me nonetheless.

I havn't played Oblivion since noticing it. I'm paranoid about continuing to "damage" that area. That was about 6 weeks ago.

[Nightrider]

How long were you playing Oblivion for?

I've played Call of Duty 2 for 3 hours straight without even temporary burn-in.

[Tap Twist Snap]

I had a black bars down the side that showed a little wear from watching non-widescreen channels (before i got a set top box and digital foxtel) but it eventually went away after watching more widescreen. It took a few months before it was no longer there now there is no way you could tell anything was ever there. These days i play anything on it even for hours and there is no sign of burn. I think you just need to be careful when they are new. Make sure you enable the screen shifting and screen wipes in your menu.

[greencode]

How long were you playing Oblivion for?.

About 5-6 hours on a day I had a day off and I am aware of the issue so I would swap to the 'Quit' menu, and change the channels to TV etc. every so often

The TV would have had over 100 hours of use before I got Oblivion for it.

Like I said, it is almost unnoticeable. Does not affect the picture quality at all. But it's there

And it is fading. Just not quick enough for my liking.

It seems to be mostly susceptible to brightly coloured interface elements. I have COD2 and have played it for hours on end with no ghosting because that left map rotates alot and everything is that mild brown colour. The worst ghosting I have seen is from the blue floro lines all over the GRAW HUD.

[AJMitchell]

I've got about 3 features on my LG Plasma to fight against Burn In. The best one is white wash where it turns the whole screen bright white for ten minutes which gets rid of not to bad burn in, like when the kids leave a DVD on the menu screen and wander of and I notice 3 hours later :ogre: .

Plus if you stare at the bright white screen you start to hallucinate which is fun :spin:

[TMM TOM1111]

leave your plasma on a static channel/black and white fuzz for about an hour and see if that works.

doing that is meant to reset the gas particles and if you say its already fading this should speed that up

[AshVsAOD]

I am almost certain that most LCD's and Plasmas have a five year burn in warrantee. Check your manual.

[greencode]

I am almost certain that most LCD's and Plasmas have a five year burn in warrantee. Check your manual.

Haha.. and I'm almost certain the world is flat! :D

[TMM TOM1111]

I am almost certain that most LCD's and Plasmas have a five year burn in warrantee. Check your manual.
LOL
your lucky to get over a year warrenty on a plasma as standard