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Originally Posted by welovesundays /t/1523034/burn-in-on-brand-new-panel-possible-panasonic-stw60/0_60#post_24497365
.... so far I didn't use it for anything else than playing those break-in images. I doubt I would see it during normal movie watching because running the break-in images I can only see it when the white, light-gray and green image is shown. I know that, of course. I'm just surprised it's there on a brand-new TV which I haven't used yet at all. So how can there be burn-in?
I just looked at my own ST60's screen using the break in images and i have two very faint narrow stripes running from top to bottom near the right edge of the screen. (kinda like a racing stripe). I thought maybe it's something in the break in files so i brought up a bunch of HD Wallpaper screen saver images and some of them show the exact same lines. I haven't watched anything that would have caused it to get burned in so it must be something in the panel or AR filter. I've had the TV for several months and even though i've seen some reports of this, i never went looking for it until now and i've noticed it in regular viewing, but then again i'm more focused on the center of the screen and not looking at the edges and it won't be an issue for me even though i now know it's there. And i'm not going to go looking for it either (just as i don't go looking for IR from logos).
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Yes, it's the German model. I didn't check the hours because I read that information is hidden somewhere in the service menu which I'm not allowed to access without risking to lose warranty.
On the 2013 North American models that this forum covers, the Hours can now be checked in the regular settings menu without having to go into the Service Menu like on all the previous years models.
German models have different menus than our NA models do, but i presume that yours will also have a way to see the hours like we do. On our models, we press Menu > scroll down to Help > select Version > then on the line that says Status4 the hours are shown after the letter. A0018-0000 for instance means it has 18 hours on it. Press Exit when you're done. See if you have the same or similar method in your regular menu. Mine currently says C1084-0000 so it has 1,084 hours on it. The letter A changes to B after so many hours, then later changes to C, but the numbers after the letter tell the actual hours used.
