Plasma & Game Consoles

keggies

Hi People

I have a Plasma TV and the shop told me not to use it with game consoles because of "screen burn".

My brother in law uses his without any trouble (about 1 month now)

Just wondered if anyone esle had any problems with theirs or knew anything.

Cheers

M3_Sussex

keggies wrote: »

Hi People

I have a Plasma TV and the shop told me not to use it with game consoles because of "screen burn".

My brother in law uses his without any trouble (about 1 month now)

Just wondered if anyone esle had any problems with theirs or knew anything.

Cheers

I think this is only caused if you have the picture on pause for a while or if the same picture is shown for a length of time. I pulled this from another site:

Plasma technology does have static image screen burn-in factors to consider. Static images will begin to "burn-in" the image displayed in a short period of time, approximately 15 minutes in some cases. Though the "burn-in" can generally be "washed" out using gray images or continual full color ranges over several hours, burn-in is a significant factor and hindrance to the plasma technology.

Moonbeam

Hi

Hubby knows about these things....

You will only get screen burn if you play for a prolongued period of time i.e. same game for several weeks - and if it has a static image anywhere on the screen eg: score, inanimate objects etc. The same thing can happen if you watch the same tv channel over and over again (eg: logo at top of screen on ITV 4)

He suggests you should be fine so long as you regularly change the games you play.

keggies

Thanks People

Guess I might take the plunge and give it a go then?
Must admit I can't wait to see "Call Of Duty" on a 42" screeb .... lol

harrysmum03_2

My sister has plasma and a wii plugged into it, there is a button on controller that u can use which turns the screen virtually black while your pausing it for a length of time to stop the burning, presume most plasmas will have it?

superscaper

Supposedly the current/new generation of plasmas have the same burn in as the CRTs did. So sounds like it has vastly improved. Of course this is a claim by the manufacturing industry itself so not sure how true it is.