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How To Prevent Screen Burn On A New TV

How To Avoid Screen Burn On A New TV

This is probably the best tip you can ever get with regard to avoiding
the dreaded screen burn. By default most new Plasma TVs are packed with dangerously high picture settings. I have yet to purchase an LCD or a Plasma TV where the contrast, brightness and colour were not set to 100%. This is riddiculous if you consider who should know the most about this relatively new technology. Of course I am referring to the manufacturers.
 
Brand New Plasma TV

Unless the set is going in an extremely bright room you should easily be able to lower the contrast, brightness and colour down to 70% with almost no loss off clarity. I find 60% is almost always achievable and often as low as 50%.

Doing this will increase immensely the amount of time a still image takes to cause any phosphor ageing. I don't want to give a specific time because it must vary from TV to TV  but I sometimes use a cheap Samsung with a completely static control panel for around 2 hours and have no problems at all.

The other big benefit with turning down the picture settings is that it will greatly increase the life of the TV. Now we begin to see why the default settings are put at 100% by the manufacturer. If you take the time to calibrate your TV precisely with PixelProtector you will have a stunning picture and a TV that lasts for ages.

Also many TVs have a 'Power Saving' setting. This usually works by decreasing the power output overall and hence preserve the life of those precious phosphors still further.

If you already have some image retention read this 'burnin' advice.


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