Master Burn-In/IR/Break In Thread Part II: All Posts Here Only - Page 143

My first post spelled it out, starting with "If you can connect a PC" and then went on to talk about the Jscreenfix screensaver, using Autohotkey to hide the mouse, etc.

Sorry, but I haven't talked about that at all. If you want to play files from a USB stick, running slides is probably as good as anything. My ST60's Screen Wipe will run forever, but it uses about 100W more than Jscreenfix (I run the latter in Home Theater mode at defaults - Contrast 100) and is more annoying to leave on if you're in the same room with it and have to see it. It's visually more distracting, and it buzzes more loudly.

As for the Disney Pixel Flipper, my main motivation for finding an alternative was the fact that my BD player shuts off while running it after 30-45 minutes or so. Secondary is the fact that to use it, one has to insert the disc and wait for it load every damn time, and then navigate the menus to activate the Pixel Flipper. Leaving the disc in is not an option because I want to use the player as a streamer probably more than I use it for BD, and the new players (Sony S5100 and Samsung F5900) are all ridiculously loud (x 6 samples - they love their constant high-pitched whining, and Samsung has found a way to simulate outside insect noise) and like to spin the disc up when turned on, and the Sony likes to keep it spinning indefinitely even when not playing it. All these problems go away with the PC method.

Thanks "sawfish" for the followup. Seems someone could make a buck or two, simply making some kind of Pixel Flipper video for a USB stick, on the VT50 one is able to allow "repeat" so you can run video or slides on a stick as long as you want. Then again, I have no idea how difficult it would be to port a Java app like the one found on the WOW disk to an actual video file. I'm certainly NOT impressed with the video files I linked to earlier called 'Pixel Jogger", they seem to function better when loading in QuickTime on my computer, then from what I can see on my display running the video from the USB stick. Oh well........

I will be using the WoW pixel flipper using the ps3, that won't randomly shut off will it?

I used the PS3 without a problem overnight.

Anything can randomly shut off though.

That proves that I didn't try hard enough I guess to find it.. It was only a quick look at the page and obviously I missed it..

i realised i could probably run the disney pixel flipper bd on PowerDVD on repeat. i haven't used it in a while, but if I remember correctly one does have that option. or i'll just boot into my linux part and run it from a player within that. either way all is not lost

any pc or mac should run any java app "*.jar" if Java is installed. it is free. if you play the pc version of Minecraft, that's essentially what one does. minecraft.exe calls the minecraft.jar function. not sure if one would need the "autohotkey" program to hide the cursor for the wow pixel flipper. It's [autohotkey] basically an opensource macro to re- assign or re-"map" the keys on your keyboard to perform a specific function. I.e., what sawfish says about the win+c keys to be programmed to hide the cursor when these keys are pressed together simultaneously.

not sure if mentioned before hand, but the autohotkey program is available free for download.

I have a panny ut50. This is my second one. I took the first one back due to bad IR and wanted to try again to see if it was just a bad panel. I was real careful for the first 200 hours this time around without any IR. I have over 300 hours on it now and decided to just watch Tv the way were going to watch it. I noticed my daughter was watching Cartoon Network so decided to check for IR this is my finding:



My guess this was after 1-3 hours of watching CN.

I decided to run the pixel flipper on the WOW BD overnight. This cleaned it up pretty nicely

The last two nights I have watched the Royals games starting about the 7th inning each night so maybe 3 hours of game time. Here is my present screen:


I'm glad the pixel flipper cleans it up but not sure i want the hassle.

I'm an avid baseball watcher, I get the YES scoreboard logo IR on my screen frequently, I run the pixel flipper once a week just to wash it off once in a while.

Wow, how long have you been rolling that routine? Glad to hear that it isn't BI. Mine was about the same after CN was on for a couple hours. It's basically gone now. This is after a few days of watching regular full screen or zoomed content. How is your panel after watching letterboxed content if you have experience in that area?

For a few weeks now I've been doing it. My panel is fine after I watch a letterboxed movie, I really only notice the IR on bright white or otherwise high colored logos like baseball scoreboxes that are always present during a game, or logos from like A&E and the likes.When I turn my PS3 on, the icons will leave a few seconds of IR as well. It's definitely annoying, but I've learned to live with it as a plasma owner. Personally, I think some people may be lying to themselves when they say that get absolutely no IR on their ST panels, I've seen more than a few that will exhibit it for at least a little while after watching a nice bright logo or baseball game.