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Originally Posted by reszound /forum/post/18365777
I'm now between 500 and 1000 hours on my 50G10A. Blacks have been bright grey for about a month now, and sure enough, it's now developing major IR - my wife even pointed it out to me. This is worrying as it's getting worse pretty quickly and I'm coming up on the next rise point. It's actually getting close to becoming unwatchable for movies in near or total darkness - especially anything dark, like sci-fi movies with lots of space shots. Blazingly bright grey bars end up burned into the screen and so called 'blacks' are bright grey and look terrible. I can still get away with watching it in a 1/4 lit room - for now.
reszound I'm from Australia also. My 50V10 has a little over 1500 hrs and it mirrors the problems of your G10.
I first noticed greying black and severe IR around the 1000 hr mark.
I'm going steadily down the Tech path with a new A board, to be followed by a SC and an SS board.
The independant techs working for Panasonic have stated they haven't seen IR this bad on a flat panel.
I'm not mentioning the Rising Blacks specifically, as Pana Australia DON'T want to know about it. "
within specs and all that dribble"
Thanks for The ACCC number, I hope I don't have to go down that road.
I'll keep you updated as to my outcome.
Thanks
wrinklefree for posting link to the live broadcast of Home Theater Geeks with Josh Kairoff.
It re-enforced a lot of what you guys here have concluded. And he seemed to have a respect for AVS and its members.