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Originally Posted by zeilda
I have heard that Plasmas suffer from screen burn-in, an affliction not commonly associated with LCDs. Screen burn in occurs when an image is left too long on a screen, resulting in a ghost of that image "burned in". LCDs also tend to consume less power than plasma screens, with some of the newer "Eco" LCD panels able to use half of the power than equivalent plasmas, with the trade-off being lower brightness
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With modern plasma TVs, burn-in is virtually unheard of. All of the good ones have anti image retention software built in which prevents burn in. If you run your image super hot in one of the overly bright modes like "Vivid" (which is a bad idea, not only for TV life but for image quality), then you can get some temporary image retention where a ghost image may appear on the screen for a few seconds or even a minute or more, but even this is much less common than it was in the first few generations of plasma technology, and it's a temporary condition.
For me, the image uniformity problems (uneven backlighting), contrast issues (which are better on LED-backlit LCD TVs with local dimming, but still not perfect) and motion blur of LCD (which is improved with 120 Hz and 240 Hz processing, but these processing modes typically introduce a new set of issues) - these all contribute to produce a picture on the best LCD TVs that still doesn't quite match the best plasmas.
LCD technology has come a long way in the past couple of years -- current high end models really do look excellent -- but then plasma isn't exactly standing still either.
-CB
08-10-2009, 01:43 PM
the priorities, (oh! that was torpedos!!!
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