i was in my local pub last night drinking a lovely paper cup of milkshake when i noticed one of the plasma tv's that is usually used for displaying music videos had a hiddeious burn in the top left of the screen, which was none other than the sky news dog
i have never seen sky news shown on this tv (at new year it was used for the count down) so my assumption is that it isnt used for such purposes all that often and that plasma tvs burn very easily.
are plasma tvs not suitable for general use due to screen burn? several channels high contrast dogs (ie sky news) would burn in very easily....
It is a known issue with plasmas, and if used for public displays then one must accept that screen burn will occur. Most good plasmas have a function where they pan and scan the screen image by a few pixels in every direction to minimise the speed of the burn-in, but it just postpones the innevitable slightly.
It is a known issue with plasmas, and if used for public displays then one must accept that screen burn will occur. Most good plasmas have a function where they pan and scan the screen image by a few pixels in every direction to minimise the speed of the burn-in, but it just postpones the innevitable slightly.
Anything form of screen can get screen burn I believe. Some screens are harder to burn but it is still possible.
Now I know people will 'Oh no it's not' 'Not on my PC Screen/TV Screen' etc... but yes it is. I know I have seen many various displays burnt. The worst case I have ever seen is at one of Ronald's places. The screen in one of them is around 5 years old and the old PC system login has been burnt into the screen because it was displayed day in day out - Although McDonalds have come up with this genius idea to help save some of their IT equipment... yes.... can you believe it.... this handy thing is called a blank screensaver!
Many moons ago, when my school operated on old Hyundai computers with orange screens, they all had horrendous screen burn.
I don't know if anyone here is familiar with Paddington Station. A few years ago plasma screens were installed there, and, to be fair, for a few months they were pretty good. But then screen burn started, and now they overheat so frequently that half of them are out of order, and on some of the others it's difficult to read the display because of all the image ghosting. I think that systems showing public information are probably unsuitable for normal televisual display. Dot matrix is a far better system - but there you're limited to text only.
I think they do burn, yes. You have to remember that Plasma screens get awfully hot, and it's just the same as if you have a hot iron with letters stuck on (the ones they used as punnishment in older times). If you leave it on your arm for too long, it becomes imprinted on it. Sure, Plasmas aren't quite that hot, but if an image is displayed on the screen for a long time, it will have the same effect.
I think they do burn, yes. You have to remember that Plasma screens get awfully hot, and it's just the same as if you have a hot iron with letters stuck on (the ones they used as punnishment in older times). If you leave it on your arm for too long, it becomes imprinted on it. Sure, Plasmas aren't quite that hot, but if an image is displayed on the screen for a long time, it will have the same effect.
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true - but it has to be a still image, such as Sky News' dog. Transparent dogs have little effect.
I remember readint this somewhere , but I don't know if it is true, but apparently the Plasma's BBC LDN have burned on to the screen, but it wouldn't suprise, unless if they switch them off, but you never know.
But it can happen on any ordinary TV Screen or PC Monitor, I read on 625.uk.com last year about some guy who bought a new Widescreen TV and his kids watched CBeebies for a couple of hours a day and after a short while the CBeebies DOG had burned onto his screen.
It too wouldn't suprise if the screens at Cartoon Network aren't damaged as they have had the same DOG 24/7/365 for the past 8 Years at least, and it has never moved or changed either.