Hey guys. I recently purchased a Gateway 42" ED UltraBright plasma. I've been very happy with it until I just noticed something that concerns me. I've had it for a little over two weeks now but have been using it mostly in 3:4 format just for standard cable, not having had much time for DVDs. I just watched 2001:a space odyssey though, and I noticed that in the space scenes when the screen is mostly black I can faintly see the borders of where the 3:4 format normally ends. On the edges of the screen, that is, outside of the 3:4 bordered area the blacks aren't quite as black as in the center, within the 3:4 format area. It's very faint and only noticeable when the screen is black. It seems like somekind of burn-in but I don't see how that could happen when it's never been left on or had an extended image on it. My guess was that perhaps since the screen is new and the cells on the side in the widescreen area have hardly been used they haven't warmed up yet to the same tone as the center of the screen. Do you guys know what's going on.
(And please don't just post to tell me the Gateway plasmas are trash, because I was under the same impression until I saw the UltraBright version in person and picked it over the widescreen HDTV projection TV I had planned on getting).
Thanks for any kind of help,
Austin
(And please don't just post to tell me the Gateway plasmas are trash, because I was under the same impression until I saw the UltraBright version in person and picked it over the widescreen HDTV projection TV I had planned on getting).
Thanks for any kind of help,
Austin