Can I cause Burn in on my new 36" Panny Flat Screen. CT36sx31 (1 Viewer)

[Jeff Sch.]

Can I cause Burn in on my new 36" Panny Flat Screen. CT36sx31

Thats basically it. I know its a crt but can video games and static images cause burn. How bout the black bars in dvds

 

[Michael TLV]

Greetings

Keep the contrast under 50% in general and you are safe ...

Mix it up and there is no danger.

Regards

 

[Jeff Sch.]

contrast. Thats the picture setting right? I bought the ht sound vision calibration disc and tried it out. My picture goes from 0 -65. Shouldnt it be 0-100? Also, i was having trouble doing the tint color test

 

[Michael TLV]

Greetings

50% of 65

Regards

 

[Tim Jin]

Are the Panny's more difficult to burn in because of the contrast level goes only up to 65?

 

[Qui-Gon John]

I'm sure you can cause burn-in if you wanted too!

Just crank the contrast all the way up, set a static image on the screen and leave it that way for a few weeks.

 

[Jack Briggs]

Jeff, you'll find out everything you ever wanted to know about screen burn-in in this thread , which has been permanently bumped at the top of this page. Do as Michael says and reduce that contrast and mix and vary your programming sources.

 

[Jeff Sch.]

Well is my 36in panny Flat sceen a regular tube tv? Dont only big screens have burn in. I though thats why the tv i got is better to play games on cause it wont have burn in?

 

[Qui-Gon John]

Even a regular CRT can get burn-in. I've seen it on a lot of computer monitors, for example.

 

[Scott Kimball]

It is not easy to burn in the phosphors on a CRT over a short time.

In the facility I work at, we have a number of 27" CRTs that show the same SMPTE color bars with the same text overlay for an average of 4 hours a day, 5 days a week. (This is far more abusive than most home users would see playing video games). The monitors are approximately 3 years old and are only now beginning to show burn-in.

If you have the contrast set too high and you play the same video game for hours every day, you might have a problem in the static areas of the game display.

Note, other types of sets are more sensitive.

-Scott