The other day I was at my local "higher end" home theater store: The Little Guys, just outside Chicago. I'm used to Best Buy and CC drones not knowing their elbows from their rear ends, but had the following happen to me:
I asked the woman behind the desk (I think she was one of the owners) which rear projection HDTV they carry gives the best standard def picture, yet won't burn in. She called a salesman over, one whom I know from the past to be what I call an "audio snob." (He's not that interested in home theater, just high end audio.) He tells me that EVERY rear projection TV will burn in. I ask if LCD, DLP, or LCOS will burn in, and he tells me they will. I ask, in the case of DLP, how that would be possible. Would the mirrors stick? He just tells me that they will all burn in. I told him that all my research proved otherwise: that LCD could possibly burn in, but DLP definitely won't. He then says only the rear projection DLP's will burn in, but not front projectors. I replied that it was clear I couldn't change his mind, but disagreed with him, and thought he was giving incorrect information, and left.
And these people want me to pay higher prices through them instead of going to the internet because of their stellar customer service? I don't think so.
I asked the woman behind the desk (I think she was one of the owners) which rear projection HDTV they carry gives the best standard def picture, yet won't burn in. She called a salesman over, one whom I know from the past to be what I call an "audio snob." (He's not that interested in home theater, just high end audio.) He tells me that EVERY rear projection TV will burn in. I ask if LCD, DLP, or LCOS will burn in, and he tells me they will. I ask, in the case of DLP, how that would be possible. Would the mirrors stick? He just tells me that they will all burn in. I told him that all my research proved otherwise: that LCD could possibly burn in, but DLP definitely won't. He then says only the rear projection DLP's will burn in, but not front projectors. I replied that it was clear I couldn't change his mind, but disagreed with him, and thought he was giving incorrect information, and left.