Video Asylum

Posted by racerguy (A) on August 31, 2006 at 05:20:54

In Reply to: I don't know if this will help but… posted by David Aiken on August 30, 2006 at 23:04:24:

My plasma TV has what the manufacturer calls a "digital refresh mode." If you notice what appears to be burn-in from watching 4:3 TV or having steady-state images on the screen, you can invoke this mode. It puts the TV through an approx 5-minute sequence of primary colors, then shuts the unit off.

It works great - even after my wife spent 5 hours watching Lifetime channel in 4:3, the ghostly edges vanished. This procedure seems like it could be easily created on a DVD and played periodically for plasmas that don't have a similar feature built in.