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Burn-in is almost impossible to get a replacement for unless you've just fired up the display immediately after the delivery agent has departed and therefore can prove you have not had the remotest time opportunity to destroy your display in this manner.
Try an overnite session of just plain old static, the random black and white noise you get when you have a television channel tuned in which does not exist in your area. The combination of this highly random black and white noise has helped many a case of light burn in.
I am not sure if serial numbers are not a good way of telling age at this point. If you are speaking of the Panasonic TH42PWD4U, this product has been out for 10 months in this version and inventories sell out quickly. It was very allocated (difficult to find up) until the middle of January of this year due to production problems with the new plant which came on line last summer. Also, most distributors do not keep more than a two or three week inventory at most, if they can help it, and especially on this model because Panasonic really does not offer aggressive price protection. That is to say, if the manufacturer's cost to a distributor changes on one day, there is no guarantee that a given distributor's existing inventory will be given a cost reduction to reflect the same cost as new inventory after the price change is announced.
Best of luck and onward with the static.
Try an overnite session of just plain old static, the random black and white noise you get when you have a television channel tuned in which does not exist in your area. The combination of this highly random black and white noise has helped many a case of light burn in.
I am not sure if serial numbers are not a good way of telling age at this point. If you are speaking of the Panasonic TH42PWD4U, this product has been out for 10 months in this version and inventories sell out quickly. It was very allocated (difficult to find up) until the middle of January of this year due to production problems with the new plant which came on line last summer. Also, most distributors do not keep more than a two or three week inventory at most, if they can help it, and especially on this model because Panasonic really does not offer aggressive price protection. That is to say, if the manufacturer's cost to a distributor changes on one day, there is no guarantee that a given distributor's existing inventory will be given a cost reduction to reflect the same cost as new inventory after the price change is announced.
Best of luck and onward with the static.