reversing plasma burn in

Its not burn in its temporary IR, and it will go away within a few hours to at most a few days

Have you tried the white scrolling bar feature in the setup-Anti Image retention menu?

What build date is your VT25? Is it pre-April?

Its incredibly hard to get permanent burn in on these displays. Even with the excess voltage increased in the 2009 and pre-April 2010 models, its still near impossible to get permanent burn in. It should dissapear.

So I'd say lay off fallout for the next few days and it should dissapear. When you play FO again, turn down the contrast a little. IR should be a non issue then

THis shouldn't be a problem in a 2010 Panasonic high end set. They need to get their act together for next year.

Yeah, its definitely just a severe case of temporary image retention. Burn in is EXTREMELY hard to do on Panasonic Plasmas. IR is definitely very common though,. I mean, you really need to abuse the TV for hours on end using vivid mode with 100 contrast.

I use Pixel-Protector DVD. It has a snow screen and it works great for IR.

I game a lot a get IR. I run the DVD with the snow screen for 8-10 hrs every now and then and it removes all of it. Make sure you turn the contrast and brightness up to 100%. I use it while I sleep at night so it doesn't take away from my time of using the TV

Is there any way to tell if I have one of the early VT25 models, or a later one?

I've been completely paranoid about playing any games or watching movies with bars on them, or even watching news channels.

If I watched several hours of cable news everyday, every day, would it risk permanent burn in?

I fell asleep the other day while watching a BD on my G20 , movie ended and the menu ended up displayed on the screen for probably around 3+ hours. There was MAJOR IR and I freaked out, ran scrolling bar like six times, still saw it...decided to run an SD movie channel on stretch all night and went to bed. When I woke up, it was gone. haha.

Fallout 3 also has the option of turning down the HUD opacity. I would recommend adjust that to a level where you can still see it, but it won't be so intense. I played Fallout 3 for about 6 hours straight on my LG 50PK550 and no sign of IR at all.

Instead of blaming the TV did it ever occur to you that since you are about the only one that has such a problem -- that it might have been caused by your abuse?

I haven't seen you post what settings you used to cause such bad TIR.

Larry

It is unusual. That's why I said that you seem to be the only one having the problem.

How long did you play the game? Really and truly?

How many hours were on the TV when you first played the game?

Larry

It will go away faster if you stop obsessing over it.

Watch some regular programming and in a week or so you'll have a hard time finding it.

Larry

How did it go with the snow screen wash mtl?

I have had the same issue with a 58vt25 playing Wii games, 360 Bad Company, as well as Fallout 3. Running the SD 18 screenshot images for now, but am wondering if the Pixel Protector 'Snow Screen' might not be a better option/investment.

I have image retention also in the upper right hand corner from fox sports logo from watching football. I ran the break in slides and used dnices settings for break in then did his settings for after the break in. I ran the ir white bars still there. I don't game on the tv just movies and tv watching. So not sure why I have it
Edit. Did the break in slides etc when the tv was new

I'm at a loss here...

I'm about to buy some 65" TV this year. However with posts like this who wants to jump through hoops or worry about ruining their TV just watching TV or playing games?

Lets be real here...

If you watch TLC, HIST, Discovery... (or any of the other affiliated channels) your screwed. They all have obnoxious BRIGHT logos and even sometimes they add additional graphics above the logo. And these logos stay there the ENTIRE time the programming is on; only to disappear just before the commercials. I know I love to geek out and watch some of those channels back to back for hours at a time.

Unless all of the channels change their ways were hosed.

I'm a video nut so the quality of the image the plasma can display is really what I want. But I don't see how anyone can really enjoy their set if they have to run break-in slides (after they did the inital break-in), or display static on their TV after they use it. Or what if you wanted to geek out and watch all of the LOTR movies back to back which are all 2.35:1. You going to zoom those?

I've sent countless e-mails to DISC asking them to change the logos on all of their channels but they just ignore me.

I have a 42" Panasonic plasma up in my office (probably the cheapest one they sell TC42x24), it only has about 300-400 hours on it. I have seen image retention, but nothing permanent.

However this year I'm going to replace my 1080i 9" CRT driven 65" rear projector (which still has a killer picture I should add). It's been professionally calibrated and I've kept it up since. But it's almost 8 years old, and I can see from my colorimeter it's losing brightness slowly. And after 8 years, I can see that I watched a bunch of 2.35:1 material on it, as I can see the uneven wear. No matter what you do this will happen on your plasma as well. No matter how careful you care. If your not using the pixels they won't wear out... (i.e. black bars and 2.35:1) so those areas of the screen will start to show uneven wear after time.

Anyway... I'm not here to steer anyone. But isn't it hard to make a decision on a plasma when you know for sure you have to baby sit it? I suppose if you only watch 1.85:1 and never play games, and never watch any TV channels with crappy logos you're OK... The more I'm thinking about it the more uncomfortable it feels.

I myself wouldn't have played games on a plasma TV with less than 300-500 hours on it. I really believe the 1st 200-500 hours are critical.

So am I off base here? I mean I don't intend on buying a new TV every year or two like some of the folks on here do.