This is how I plan to break-in my new Panny 60u, thoughts?

You might want to take this bit of advice...

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...&page=26&pp=30

Sounds like a plan. I have a 9uk coming Thursday and will use the breakin dvd.

HD here we come!

Don't calibrate until AFTER break in. Let the phosphors age before calibrating, at least 200 + hours. Don't turn the settings down, leave them where they are, or according to what others are using for the Panny (check in the Panny thread).

Why not watch the Panny while you are breaking in? Just run the disk when you are not watching tv. It would drive me krazy knowing I had a new plasma in the other room that was running but I couldn't watch it!

You should read up on burn in. It is actually very hard to burn in the newer plasmas. Some IR (image retention) can happen but is something that can easily disappear by viewing other material. As long as you don't abuse your set like leaving it on a static image for days on end, you'll be fine.

I don't want to talk you out of how you want to handle your set, but I also think you should be aware that there is no need to be scared that your tv may burn in if you don't break it in properly. Unfortunately there has been a lot of misinformation out there that scares people, and most, if not all, of it isn't true. Do some more reading of the Panny thread, the Official D-Nice Pioneer 6th/7th Generation Settings Thread!!!! thread (realize that these settings are for the Pio's, but the "break in" theory and overhype still applies), and the Download Break In DVD (SVCD) thread.

Good luck and enjoy your new tv!

I have never broken in a Panny Plasma, I have 3 in my house and have owned 6 of them total. I run each and every one of them as if they have 1000 hrs on them right from the start. Absolutely no problems.

Plasma burn-in nowdays is next to impossible if you ask me and a complete waste of time.

Nothing can replace your piece-of-mind. Do what makes you feel best and you will be happiest. Good luck and enjoy!

I just got my Panasonic 42PX600U and first thing I did was try out Xbox 360, I noticed that there was some retention with Fight Night Round 3 game, so I stopped playing.

The retention has gone but I want to limit any further mishaps.

I calibrated using the guide on ******************* - but it seems like ppl are running this DVD during the break in period of 100 hours. After reading multiple threads and somewhat confused if brightness and contrast should be kept low or high during this period. I had it high for 1 hour but changed it to the following:

Picture Mode Standard
Picture -10
Brightness -10
Color -1
Tint -4
Sharpness -14
Color Temperature Warm


Anyone have any recommendations on if i should change this setting. Right now, its 2am EST, so i will let it run till the morning, and also while i go to work. If anyone can provide input if my settings should be changed during this 100 hour, please let me know.

Thanks!

FYI - the aspect I have is the default that came configured.

My advice is to follow the advice in the owner's manual that came with your set. If it says to observe a breakin period - do it. If not, don't worry about it.

I have a Pioneer PDP-5070 and its user's manual does not recommend going through any sort of 100-200 hrs break-in process. Think about it: if you were a manufacturer of expensive TVs (and wanted to minimize support/complaint calls and warranty requests) would you skip putting in the manual a critical aspect of operating the TV and instead assume that eventually all owners will go to avsforum to find out your "true" recommendations as a manufacturer? I'd be surprised if even a tenth of all plasma purchasers have spend any time reading a site like this one.

Ok, ok, so the manual does give the usual disclaimer about avoiding static images for "too long" (but incidentally, I have yet to see a definition of how long too long actually is.) Here's my experience though...

After I got my Pio5070, for the first few days I treated it with kid gloves and checked regularly for IR (image retention). Then maybe 3 days in I decided what could it hurt to watch one 2.35 movie? Did that, no IR. Not long after, did a bit of gaming. No IR. Watched some 4:3 std def TV. No IR. Not even a little. All this, before the 25 hour mark.

I'm somewhere in the neighbourhood of 200-300 hrs now. For most of that time, I've had my contrast set a little *higher* than the manufacturer default settings. Looking back I have pretty much watched whatever I wanted. I've played video games more/less right from the start, 3:4 std def content, 2.35 ratio movies. (Although, the 5070 has a nice stretch mode for 3:4 which I like better than black bars.) In the last few weeks, I have logged ~20 hours or more on Crackdown for the xbox 360 - which has a static heads up display. Still no IR!

I do tend to watch a fair amount of stuff that is full screen. And my personal viewing habits are such that I tend not to watch the same thing for more than a few hours at a time. Still, given my experience with the Pio5070 I think all this talk about IR and breakin periods just creates alot of fear, uncertainty and stress for nothing!

(Oh and based on peoples posts on this forum, there is little reason to think that the Panasonic brands are any less robust.)

So you got some IR after playing the game. No big deal, don't stress, it will easily go away. I gamed for hours when my plasma was new, had some IR, but it went away quickly. I have not changed my habits since.

Run it at the settings you expect to run at after break in. If anything, run it a little higher when using the disk. Here is a post from D-Nice concerning plasmas and break in settings: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...&page=26&pp=30

Thanks - and im giving up on this dvd burn in deal since I think I am getting more paranoid through this process than i should. Now, I am started to think the dvd caused some sort of like horizontal line on the bottom of the screen after i let it run for about 18 hours straight. My wife thinks I am crazy and seeing things that are not there.

Thus, I've decided to give up on the dvd and just enjoy the set with low picture/brightness until 100 hours, at which time I will go by the settings recommended by plasma@@buyinguide.

What seems Kr8z is you posted a copy of this post in at least 3 different threads.

Why don't you follow the manufacturer's recommendations?

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