[manufanatic]

Hello, wanted to find out if what I am expierencing is normal for plasmas. I turned off my plasma and then turned out all the lights and I notice image retention it was basically the last channel description I was on before I turned it off. Is this normal. If it dissapears is that normal. I understand this has a screensaver should i run it.


thanks

 

[JuiceRocket]

I have a 6UY (7UY specs it to be more burn-in resistant) and when I turn off my unit with the lights off, I do see a faint afterglow of the brightets parts of the image. This lasts for about 15 seconds or so, and then fades. It's normal, you've nothing to worry about.


Have you calibrated your set and turned it down from the factory "torch-mode"?


-JR

 

[Joe Murphy Jr]

This is normal. The fade time will get a little quicker with use, so don't worry about it. Though even with a calibration, which is what should be done by any display owner, you will see a slight fading glow if you shut the set off with the lights dim/off.


If it bothers you, switch to an unused input for a few seconds before you shut it off.

 

[wojtek]

It is normal for all phosphor-based displays.


I see this for 5 seconds or so on my CRT.


It may take a bit longer on plasmas.

 

[technofan]

I program my remote sequentially to turn power off cable box first, surround sound system second and plasma last. Never saw any image that way. The plasma will print no signal on a blank screen when signal source is turned off.

 

[Bob Pariseau]

You really needn't worry about doing anything special to keep this from happening. This is called "loading" and has to do with the charge retained in the image producing elements under these circumstances. You will sometimes see it even during regular watching if you shift from a contrasty image to a fixed, bland image such as an all gray screen. It is *NOT* incipient burn-in and will vanish all by itself with the set off or during normal viewing of moving images.


Burn-in arises from the uneven aging of the phosphors that produce the light in your plasma. What you want to prevent is anything that will induce uneven aging, such as doing all your watching with black bars on the sides or top/bottom of the display (those areas aren't aging) or excessive watching of shows with fixed elements such as bright logos or moving ticker lines. Leaving a DVD image paused on screen while you go make dinner is the sort of thing you definitely want to avoid.


You also want to reduce the over-all rate of aging by not running your plasma at the highest possible light output levels. Calibrate the set properly and your white levels will be reduced, which slows down aging across the board. Doing this should be the first thing you do when you get a new plasma.


For the first couple hundred hours of use, the period of fastest phosphor aging, set your display to stretch standard-def TV to fill the screen from corner to corner, avoid watching movies or HDTV channels that put up black bars, channel surf, and don't leave stationary images such as calibration test screens or DVD menus on display for more than a minute or two.


For more than you probably ever wanted to know about burn-in and loading, read the master burn-in thread at the top of this forum.

--Bob

 

[manufanatic]

thanks for the info. thats what i thought. Yes i have calibrated and took it out of torch mode.

 

[rogo]

While Bob's recommendations are -- to me -- extraordinarily sound, it appears the newest sets might not even need the first few hundred hours of coddling. In particular, Panasonic may have flattened out the early part of the curve. More confirmation of that needed and there is certanly no harm in following the recs for the first few hundred hours.


Oh, and if you leave a DVD menu once in a while, don't freak it. Don't make a habit of it, but don't freak out.


Mark