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Originally Posted by Troll 
The Football World Cup was the first sports event to be broadcast in HD and since then I haven't seen any sports events broadcast in full HD.
Watching the World Cup in HD was pretty sweet.  My girlfriend's brother's roommate (and thus her brother) has an HD rear projection set. The quality was good (even though the viewing angles are not so great).
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Originally Posted by cSurfr
I've had my plasma (panasonic) for a year now and I don't have the any burn-in issues.
So you're saying they aren't prone to it?
You are either smart or lucky. I had a CRT-RP for 4 years and even though I played games on it I never got burn in. I was careful though making sure that if possible I could turn off the static on screen displays with games and I never watched 4:3 content with black bars on the side.
There is plenty of people who have Plasma's who watched too much 4:3 material unstretched and got very noticeable burn in as a result. The first 100 hours of the set is the most vital.
I can't even imagine the cost to fix it but many times it is better to just get a new TV. Luckily they aren't $10,000 anymore.
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Originally Posted by Dark Helmet
So you're saying they aren't prone to it?
You are either smart or lucky. I had a CRT-RP for 4 years and even though I played games on it I never got burn in. I was careful though making sure that if possible I could turn off the static on screen displays with games and I never watched 4:3 content with black bars on the side.
There is plenty of people who have Plasma's who watched too much 4:3 material unstretched and got very noticeable burn in as a result. The first 100 hours of the set is the most vital.
I can't even imagine the cost to fix it but many times it is better to just get a new TV. Luckily they aren't $10,000 anymore.
I'm not saying that they are or aren't prone to it, only that mine doesn't suffer from it. The 10th generation plasma panel (which mine has) is a lot less susceptible to it than say, the plasma tv's from 3 or so years ago.
Luck has nothing to do with it. If you actually pay attention to what you watch, burn-in shouldn't be an issue @ all.
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Plasma burn-in is over stated. If you buy a decent brand and break it in properly you will likely have no problems. After 1000 hours you will have nothing to worry about. They are far more likely to hold an after-image but those do go away.
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