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Actually its not a myth. I have friends that have calibrated their plasmas and still get burn in (talking about gaming for 10+ hours).
Technology might be better on newer plasmas, but the risk of burn in will always be there for a plasma TV. Period.
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Burn in is why I went LCD. So much tv is not full screen and looks terrible stretched.
The plasma is in my son's room, He doesn't care if everything is zoomed.
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Contrast ratios and screen brightness seem to be bygone issues with most current-generation displays...
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Your point about specs. is well taken, thanks for the info. I should have noted that I did compare the Samsung side by side with a similar Sony and Mitsubishi tweaking all the settings myself. Overall I thought the picture looked better on the Samsung. It just seemed to have more depth and I attributed that to the different contrast ratios. I give the Sony credit for tracking motion better without blurring the detail as much.
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Actually its not a myth. I have friends that have calibrated their plasmas and still get burn in (talking about gaming for 10+ hours).
Technology might be better on newer plasmas, but the risk of burn in will always be there for a plasma TV. Period.
You said "Calibrated their displays and still get burn in." Did it go away? True burn in won't go away.
Did they ever have a burn in issue with a CRT?
I find it hard to believe you would get burn in from video games as the back grounds are constantly changing. I might bet that the games were left on stagnant displays(paused) for breaks and that would be what caused the burn in.
The newer(less than 2yrs old) Plasmas are said to be better at not having burn in issues, however, now that the viewing angles for LCD's has come way up their isn't much difference, other than response times ,to affect the decision of Plasma or LCD, Prices are nearly the same now as well.
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Many video games have head-up displays that show your health, a compass, a radar, etc. Those are always in the same location on the screen. Hence the burn-in possibility.
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Many video games have head-up displays that show your health, a compass, a radar, etc. Those are always in the same location on the screen. Hence the burn-in possibility.
Was just about to mention the HUD on games. This is what causes the burn in potential.
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But burn in after only 10hrs? Not disputing, just sayin, still hard to believe. The old monochrome PC monitors took longer than that to take a burn on the screen.
And yes I haven't been into the new gaming systems for awhile, I figure if I wanted to play those type of games I would use my PC, way better control and graphics, at least the last time I played anything in that way.
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Well just to add to the mix I recently acquired a 50 inch LG plasma (50PC3D). Picked it up from the local Bestbuy who had matched the price at Visions. It's not quite as good as the Panny but it was also only $2288 CDN, which was a little over $400 cheaper than the Panasonic Plasma. For the $$$ it looks very good. 
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But you had it delivered to the wrong address! 
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Sorry Jake, I forgot your address. I guess you'll have to drive to Winnipeg to pick it up.
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