Plasma Screen Burn In - Thanks a lot Channel Five - Petition Maybe?

leboof

Hi

Now that even Channel Five has decided so display a logo in the top left of their TV shows/Films etc, I'm getting worried about my Plasma TV. What's the real deal as far as screen "burn in" is concerned anyone? I don't want to watch a film for 2 hours with the logo on display. Also, concerned about watching football or other channels that constantly display their logos.

Thank you in advance for your advice.

Please use my Poll, could it be a petition maybe?

jasmin10

I have a plasma and my little girl has the tv on as background noise from 6am til about 9 and after 2 years I have no burn.

Bernie

If the originators had of wanted something obliterating part of the scene, they would have added it themselves. Bloody irritating...

letsbehonest

I have not got screen burn but screen logo's drive me round the bend why are they there?

superscaper

letsbehonest wrote: »

I have not got screen burn but screen logo's drive me round the bend why are they there?

Well the channels will claim it's "branding" to remind you what channel you're watching. Another example of treating us all like idiots. I know what channel it is because I chose it.

Plasma manufacturers claim that current plasmas have the same burn in as CRTs so there shouldn't be as much of a problem as there used to be. May be a good idea to turn the brightness down to half. They tend to get shipped with a default full brightness for shop display purposes.

There have been anti-DOG (digital onscreen graphics) campaigns for years but they've never really achieved anything because the channels don't seem to really care and are firm in their belief that they need them. When it's put to them about burn in they just say that it's the TV manufacturers' problem not theirs!!

shown73

Put me down as one of the infuriated, but alas impotent, (at least in this context, phew!) masses. If there is ever an uprising against these things I'll be one of the founder members. As a plasma owner, it does worry me, although screen burn has not been an issue so far.

Networkguy

On a plasma screen that is more than a few weeks old, you would need to have such a logo showing for much longer than a couple of hours to do any lasting damage.

If you do happen to leave the TV on overnight and end up with a faint image in the morning, switching the TV to a blank channel (just showing white noise) for a few minutes should sort it out.

tomstickland

Why use such a compromised technology?

superscaper

tomstickland wrote: »

Why use such a compromised technology?

What do you mean? I already said in my post, for the current generation of plasmas (and probably the last one or two generations), the burn in is no worse than a CRT. What other technology is there? For a thin TV there's only LCD so far which is a much newer technology and therefore not as developed and there are advantages to both plasma and LCD in different areas. So what do you mean by compromised?

CHR15

I've yet to take the plunge into the Plasma/LCD era but I am sure a while ago (perhaps a couple of years or more). Plasma TV's had a facility for eliminating screen burn in the options menu.

By eliminating, it just showed a bright white screen to effectively Burn out the screen burn.

This is similar to Networkguy's suggestion about a blank channel.

You could see the effects of screen burn in Airports, train stations and such where the overhead plasma screens showed the same image for long periods. Some of them look awful.


I have also read though, that the current generation of Plasmas do not suffer screen burn at all though so it is not something I am going to be at all concerned about when I finally do take the plunge.

Bongedone

You want to see the logo's that are on "My name is Earl" in America. They dance around to attract you attention and even cross the main part of the image in the middle of the show. No doubt Sky TV will start using them soon.

I suppose they will be less of a problem for burn in because of this but you tune in to watch the show and not the logo.