zoomed, stretched or 4:3 on widescreen (1 Viewer)

[Al.Anderson]

You can't 'fix' the burn-in, but since your TV is so new, you can probably make it less noticable. As you use the TV normally, keep a signal on the outer portions of the screen (never display the black bars again). This will over time cause those two portions to get "worn-in" also. The burn-in should become less noticable.

When you watch in 3:2 mode, definitely use the gray setting for the outer bars.

 

[Rommel_L]

AMEN!!

 

[Yee-Ming]

Heh, philistine that I am, I actually do use the slight stretch mode (called Wide on Pioneers) that crops a little and stretches less in the middle, on most broadcast TV.

What gets really annoying is when I'm watching something broadcast 4:3, but which has obviously been pand-scanned from a 16:9 aspect ratio, something that is getting more common with a lot of TV shows (just two nights ago, watching Criminal Minds, it was pretty obvious that the OAR of the show is 16:9).

(And before anyone asks, I make this observation in relation to TV shows only, I NEVER watch pan/scan broadcasts of movies. Just too painful.)

 

[Lew Crippen]

I think that 3 weeks is far too soon for ‘burn in’ to occur. Either you have been sold a defective set, or your set has been used as a demo model on the sales floor.

I’d take it back to the store immediately.

BTW, it will help to get a calibration disk and adjust your settings appropriately. I watch a lot of classic movies in 1.33:! and have not had any hint of burn-in. I do watch news and such in a full screen mode, but for anything else, its 4:3.

Good luck.

 

[ScottH]

If it's not in widescreen, I don't watch it.

 

[Paul_Stachniak]

Cause everything is LCD in the house now, it's all OAR.

 

[MarkHastings]

Now that I have LCD, I watch everything OAR, but with my old RP WSTV, I used strecth mode. It never really bothered me because I got used to it.

 

[Rich Malloy]

When I first got my HD-RPTV, I played around with the "just" stretch mode and zoom, but after a few weeks I settled on 4x3 for 4x3 programming as the most satisfying presentation.

 

[Deke]

I got a TV with progressive zoom, so I just make the picture as big as I can without losing any of it. I'm totally sad. I sometimes get out of the chair and stand almost resting on the screen to make sure I haven't left a line of image behind...

Great for playing old video games on though