In Reply to: RE: Went to Costco to buy the New Vizio locally dimming LED LCD, BUT walked away with Plasma posted by Gmood1 on October 10, 2009 at 22:45:35:
The burn-in issue does bother me, but luckily, I don't play games or computers on this TV.One thing that does nag my mind is the fact I do watch quite a bit of 4:3 material, and the side bars causing burn-in. Or movies with bars on top and bottom.. I absolutely HATE stretched 4:3 material in "Wide" mode!
What Joe says comforts my worries, but I can't really find strong documentation elsewhere:
"Image burn-in pretty much experienced a dramatic decrease about 6 years ago with the introduction of 60,000 hour model plasmas. Even before that, there were/are simple procedures to follow and use that made this issue negligible. Nearly every plasma made in the last 3 years will not have an issue with burn-in."
Edits: 10/11/09
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Follow Ups
- Plasma Burn-In - Jon L 15:36:03 10/11/09 (25)
- RE: Plasma Burn-In - Gmood1 16:56:46 10/11/09 (4)
- We choose plasma for PQ - cfraser 15:27:45 10/12/09 (3)
- RE: We choose plasma for PQ - Gmood1 17:31:33 10/12/09 (2)
- RE: We choose plasma for PQ - cfraser 18:22:36 10/12/09 (1)
- RE: We choose plasma for PQ - Gmood1 18:39:42 10/12/09 (0)
- Partly because they've redefined "burn-in" - cfraser 16:25:58 10/11/09 (19)
- LCDs also suffer from image retention (nt) - racerguy 06:45:29 10/13/09 (15)
- RE: LCDs also suffer from image retention (nt) - Gmood1 09:47:48 10/13/09 (14)
- I've seen it quite a bit - racerguy 19:04:00 10/13/09 (10)
- RE: I've seen it quite a bit - Gmood1 20:40:09 10/13/09 (9)
- RE: I've seen it quite a bit - racerguy 21:10:04 10/13/09 (8)
- RE: I've seen it quite a bit - Gmood1 21:21:56 10/13/09 (7)
- You are definitely confused - racerguy 04:56:41 10/14/09 (6)
- RE: You are definitely confused - Gmood1 08:03:31 10/14/09 (5)
- I'm through with you - racerguy 14:52:24 10/14/09 (1)
- RE: I'm through with you - Gmood1 18:30:36 10/14/09 (0)
- you might want to consider this - Joe Murphy Jr 09:29:39 10/14/09 (2)
- RE: you might want to consider this - Gmood1 10:42:57 10/14/09 (1)
- you didn't offend me - Joe Murphy Jr 13:42:19 10/15/09 (0)
- brown-in is their burn-in - Joe Murphy Jr 13:32:11 10/13/09 (2)
- RE: brown-in is their burn-in - Gmood1 14:30:57 10/13/09 (1)
- not burning in - Joe Murphy Jr 18:20:38 10/13/09 (0)
- that's not how it works - Joe Murphy Jr 14:04:15 10/12/09 (2)
- I meant that if you read the owners manuals - cfraser 15:02:11 10/12/09 (1)
- understood - Joe Murphy Jr 21:16:29 10/12/09 (0)