running in plasmas

I had one a few years ago. I didn't intentionally run it in, but only watched an hour or 2 a day for the first week or so anyway. Certainly had no problems.
 
No idea there was such thing?

So didn't and it's still going strong
8 years later.
 
scottthehat said:
i was lead to believe that its contrast and sharpness that affects screen burn and image retention.
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Contrast - yes as the brighter it is, the more likely you are to have screenburn. Contrast rather than brightness as, bizarrely, brightness affects black level (not white see: http://www.poynton.com/notes/brightness_and_contrast/) and it is contrast that sets the transfer function to bring you out of the black level. Sharpness is unlikely to have an effect, but many people have it overblown and so don't get a natural looking image (the whole reason for a plasma in the first place IMHO!!)

Screen burn only occurs on static areas of the picture - such as channel logos if you watch too much of a single channel.
 
Yup, black bars and logos can cause problems as screen burn happens as the plasmas age at different rates depending on the colour they are driven. Just don't watch too much black bar stuff, turn down the contrast and calibrate it as best you can (with a set of patterns/PLUGE test). The key thing is to get it into a natural picture setting which doesn't put the colours/white levels on "NUKE" settings. Out of the box they are mostly set to Standard or Vivid picture styles which are about as far from neutral as you can get! Have a google for your set and recommended settings. They may well look initially dull, but will be far better than out of the box settings.
 
arad85 said:
The key thing is to get it into a natural picture setting which doesn't put the colours/white levels on "NUKE" settings. Out of the box they are mostly set to Standard or Vivid picture styles which are about as far from neutral as you can get! Have a google for your set and recommended settings. They may well look initially dull, but will be far better than out of the box settings.
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Without checking, mine has something like "cinema" or "movie" mode, or something like that, which isn't as contrasty as the default settings. I use it and prefer it to the bright settings that you see on display models in shops.
 
Modern plasma's tend not to get screen burn. You will get image retention with black bars and logos etc, but it is temporary.
 
I turned the brightness and contrast to 50% and set the picture to natural, the key is not to run te panel at full strength, as this can degrade the screen prematurely, basically what everyone else said above.

:)
 
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