Hello!

My dear husband(DH) came home with a Pioneer Kuro 111 today. He's very excited. Me not so much.

I have a bad habit of leaving our DVR menu up on our old CRT TV. He's been ...uhhh.. lecturing me about the dangers of doing this on the new TV.

How big of a problem is it? And is there anyway to prevent something bad from happening if I do something stupid? Like do they have a screensaver type mode etc...

Thanks! Lisa

P.S. On another topic, will the TV really look better? Most of the shows I watch (Daily Show & General Hospital) are not high definition. Aren't they just going to look worse?

The risk of permanent burn-in on today's plasmas is as close to zero as it gets. The new KUROs are said to be especially good at avoiding it.

Performing a proper break-in procedure for the first 150 hours will probably assist in making it even less likely (by "proper break-in" I mean what D-Nice suggests in the KURO Settings thread).

All KUROs have a thing called "Video pattern" in the option menu which washes away image retention, should you ever forget static images on the panel for too long ;) Also, set Orbiter mode to 2 for maximum safety: this will make the picture on the screen move imperceptibly and help in avoiding IR.

Last but not least.. you're going to be very satisfied with the 151's PQ :)

I have a similar question. Our Wii system was on constantly, with no game inside it, for the past week. I only found out now.
No games were played but TV programming was occasionally watched during the past week.
So, if you are watching the TV, does the Wii screen (with the date) running constantly on the game channel (which we never flipped to for the past week) damage the TV? Or do you have to be actually on the game channel and leave it there for several hours for any burn-in to appear? Thank you for any answers.

I have a similar question. Our Wii system was on constantly, with no game inside it, for the past week. I only found out now.
No games were played but TV programming was occasionally watched during the past week.
So, if you are watching the TV, does the Wii screen (with the date) running constantly on the game channel (which we never flipped to for the past week) damage the TV? Or do you have to be actually on the game channel and leave it there for several hours for any burn-in to appear? Thank you for any answers.

Hi Rockford,

The damage to the display (potentially) occurs from the display itself showing the same image for hours on end, i.e., burning the image onto the display. Hence the name, "burn-in". It matters not one bit what's happening on any of the other inputs that are not currently being displayed.

-Mark

Burn-in and IR only happen if you are actually displaying a static image on the screen. If you leave a console on but then watch TV instead of displaying its menu, there's no risk of burn-in or IR.

EDIT: mbobak beat me to it :D

Panasonics have a feature (I assume Pioneers as well) that automatically shuts off the set after a few hours if it hasn't received a control input - highly recommend activating that feature and setting the timer to as short as it will allow. This will prevent it from being up too too long.

As others have said, if you goof and leave it on for a while, run the video pattern.

jeff

Under Power Control in the menu, you can set the TV to automatically shut off after no activity is detected over a certain length of time.

The risk of permanent burn-in on today's plasmas is as close to zero as it gets. The new KUROs are said to be especially good at avoiding it.

Performing a proper break-in procedure for the first 150 hours will probably assist in making it even less likely (by "proper break-in" I mean what D-Nice suggests in the KURO Settings thread).

All KUROs have a thing called "Video pattern" in the option menu which washes away image retention, should you ever forget static images on the panel for too long ;) Also, set Orbiter mode to 2 for maximum safety: this will make the picture on the screen move imperceptibly and help in avoiding IR.

Last but not least.. you're going to be very satisfied with the 151's PQ :)

OK - that's good to know. I'll have to find those settings and show this thread to DH, so I don't get in too much trouble.

He's still setting it up in the living room, so we'll see how it looks...someday.. He has to read the manual first. :rolleyes:

I'm in charge of setting up our Harmony One remote. I got one because I was tired of waiting for him to reprogram an old Sony one(AV-3000, I think) we had. I love this new little remote. It's a perfect combo of touchscreen and hard buttons.