Plasma burn-in, can it be fixed?

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My 51" Samsung plasma is close to 3 years old now and it has some burn in artefacts. I have grown very fond of plasma yet if I have to buy another TV it will probably be LED, but that is a last resort for me. Is there anything I can do to get rid of the burned in sections on the screen or is that just something that will remain for the rest of the panels life?
 
Is it menu's or what that is burned in? just curious as to what caused this?
 
I'll try to take a pic of it, worst offender is the XBMC that was paused so I have a massive pause icon in the top right conner. The menu of Confluence skin also burned it a bit. This was mainly caused by two factors, one being my wife getting distracted when she watched stuff and two that it was stuck in demo/store mode after the last firmware update.

There is this scrolling image thing that I sometimes turn on and let run until it shuts down by itself, maybe I will try that some more.
 
I let my screen saver come on after 3 minutes on xbmc, always trying to prevent this
 
I use the dim screen saver in XBMC but it only dims for a minute or so then it comes right back on by itself.
 
Try change your xbmc skin for a while so that the buttons are in different places?
 
I think my plasma was 7+ years old when it bought the farm earlier this year and to it's dying day it had the CBeebies logo burned into the bottom right hand corner despite the kids not watching that channel for the last three years. :o
 
Rouxenator said:
My 51" Samsung plasma is close to 3 years old now and it has some burn in artefacts. I have grown very fond of plasma yet if I have to buy another TV it will probably be LED, but that is a last resort for me. Is there anything I can do to get rid of the burned in sections on the screen or is that just something that will remain for the rest of the panels life?
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You won't be left with much choice soon. Talk that 2014 will see the last plasmas.

Out of interest, I have never actually seen burn in myself until visiting MTN last week. They had a Nokia Lumia on display (not sure what displays they use?) which obviously had it's screen on all the time. When I scrolled on the home screen the top tiles were actually "burnt" on the display.

As regards your question, my plasma has a function to rid it of screen burn. It scrolls through various colours as far as I can remember. Does yours not?
 
Yes I have the scrolling screen that I put on at times. My Galaxy Nexus (AMOLED) also has burn in but that is to be expected from these technologies.

I think I'll hang on the the plasma until it goes for some other reason. A little burn in does not seem like a good enough reason to get a new TV.
 
Try those image correctors - might work.

Also - set XBMC's screensaver - if your TV supports it, it'll turn off when idle for 5 minutes or so.
 
Polk said:
Item name (be very descriptive): Samsung Plasma TV 51" - PS51D550

Age and condition: 3 years. Good physical condition however the TV shows an intermittent pink haze when there is a solid white background. ...
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Yeah, so it's not just me then. Plasma sucks.
 
2011 plasma with burn in ? I thought they were done burning by then :/ Here's a thread in 2011 saying modern plasmas no longer burn in

and too much emphasis on plasma burn-in (hardly an issue these days).

Chances of burn on modern plasmas is extremely low, especially from TV/gaming/divx viewing which involve very few static images

Fact is, burn-in should not concern you on modern plasma.

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...Avexpo-co-za?p=7159559&viewfull=1#post7159559

Every year 'modern plasma' changes and no longer burn in.
 
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I notice the PP never commented in this thread, glad you came right Roux how is the hisense?
 
The Hisense is good, if you go into the service menu you can set a lot of weird stuff. I would however not buy D-LED again, edge lit is just fine plus you get all the other advantages such as a much thinner body. My Hisense is pretty much the same as a normal CFL LCD except it uses strips of LEDs like the image below
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In the long run I'll keep this TV until I can get a 60" or larger edge lit LED for cheap.
 
Dolby said:
2011 plasma with burn in ? I thought they were done burning by then :/ Here's a thread in 2011 saying modern plasmas no longer burn in

and too much emphasis on plasma burn-in (hardly an issue these days).

Chances of burn on modern plasmas is extremely low, especially from TV/gaming/divx viewing which involve very few static images

Fact is, burn-in should not concern you on modern plasma.

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...Avexpo-co-za?p=7159559&viewfull=1#post7159559

Every year 'modern plasma' changes and no longer burn in.
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Lupus said:
I notice the PP never commented in this thread, glad you came right Roux how is the hisense?
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Uh, it was dealt with elsewhere. User repetitively abused plasma with static images after an update set plasma to torch mode, which user did not notice. Plasma was perfect for years before this happened.

Well tried!
 
Rouxenator said:
The Hisense is good, if you go into the service menu you can set a lot of weird stuff. I would however not buy D-LED again, edge lit is just fine plus you get all the other advantages such as a much thinner body. My Hisense is pretty much the same as a normal CFL LCD except it uses strips of LEDs like the image below
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In the long run I'll keep this TV until I can get a 60" or larger edge lit LED for cheap.
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Isn't that supposed to give more uniform lighting over a normal ccfl?
 
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