Last night I did something rather stupid - I fell asleep while watching a DVD on my Pioneer 503cmx. (In my defense, I was tired.) A couple of hours later I wake up to find the movie over and the DVD returned to the main menu. I turn off the DVD, and the image of the logo and text on the menu is clearly visible on the screen. I think - no problem, I've read a million posts here about burn-in issues, and know that permanent burn-in cannot happen in that short a period of time; it is ghosting, and will go away when everything cools down. I turn of the set and go to bed.
This morning I turn on the set, and the logo and text are just as visible as last night. All of a sudden I am sweating a little bit. (We have only had this display for about six weeks - too early to explain to the wife that I f'd up and she is going to watch this thing for the rest of her life with a Planet of the Apes logo on top of regular programming!) So I think - I know, I'll see if I can white-mask this image away. To make a short story long, it worked. About 30 minutes of the white mask did the trick. (Unfortunately, it did not 'turn' my one stuck pixel, but I can not detect this outside of the white mask anyways.)
My questions to the gang are:
Was this truly ghosting which should have gone away after watching whatever programming for a while, or is this closer to a burn-in kind of situation? I am guessing ghosting, since burn-in as discussed on the forum is permanent, which this was fortunately not.
If it is ghosting, any idea of how long you would have to watch regular programming to make the image go away? (It is true that I could perform an experiment by recreating the situation and discovering the answer on my own, but don't think I will!)
This morning I turn on the set, and the logo and text are just as visible as last night. All of a sudden I am sweating a little bit. (We have only had this display for about six weeks - too early to explain to the wife that I f'd up and she is going to watch this thing for the rest of her life with a Planet of the Apes logo on top of regular programming!) So I think - I know, I'll see if I can white-mask this image away. To make a short story long, it worked. About 30 minutes of the white mask did the trick. (Unfortunately, it did not 'turn' my one stuck pixel, but I can not detect this outside of the white mask anyways.)
My questions to the gang are:
Was this truly ghosting which should have gone away after watching whatever programming for a while, or is this closer to a burn-in kind of situation? I am guessing ghosting, since burn-in as discussed on the forum is permanent, which this was fortunately not.
If it is ghosting, any idea of how long you would have to watch regular programming to make the image go away? (It is true that I could perform an experiment by recreating the situation and discovering the answer on my own, but don't think I will!)