Long pauses will burn DVDs

[niner]

Originally Posted by Troberg

It was somewhat true, but isn't anymore. Even when it was true, you needed to leave the image ridicilously long for burn to occur.



One reservation, though. Plasma screens are prone to burn, so don't leave them paused for long and don't use them for computers or consoles.

Oh, I was going to contradict you before you put in that last little bit. Plasmas can be very sensitive. My wife left a DVD at the menu once, for about 10 minutes, then decided to do something else. When I turned the TV on shortly thereafter, without turning on other sources, I could still see the menu image in the background. It cleared away after watching my program, but I was pretty worried for a little bit.

At work we use 42" plasmas mounted in the plant floor to display 4-7 numbers that chart our progress in production. The headers are a nice bold white text on black background - and are very well burned into the screens. Some day I'll try the anti-burn-in function on these TVs and see if it's really permanent or just highly residual.

Henry