subject: Preventing burn In On Your Home Theatre Television [print this page] Burn in used to be a much more prevalent problem for televisions in the past but now it is mainly limited to plasma screens which are still vulnerable to this nemesis. For those of you who dont know what burn in is, we can simply describe it as a sort of pixel retention of previous images that have been on your television. For instance you might notice burn in on a plasma television if youve been watching a program that has changed the screen size and cause two black lines to form on either side of the television picture for extended period of time. The burn in will appear after you switch this particular program off and go to an all white screen. What youll notice is that the television has adopted a sort of ghosting a fact of where the black lines previously were on the television screen. The effect might not be noticeable from a distance but it is often very noticeable at close range. So what can you do to prevent burn in on your home theater television?
As I said before burn in is most commonly a problem on plasma televisions. Most plasma televisions come with some features to help prevent the dreaded image burn in. One of the features that is being offered on some newer models of plasma televisions is pixel shifting which will literally move an image on your television screen to prevent it from burning in. This method keeps pixels changing that which will hopefully avoid any image from staying in one spot to long and causing a burn in.
Still, the best way to avoid this problem is by doing exactly that: Avoiding the problem in the first place. The best way to avoid the problem of image burn in is to make sure that your television is constantly fluctuating images and then nothing stays on the screen and one place for too long. It has been said that cartoon networks are some of the best places to break in your plasma televisions because they provide a ceaselessly changing environment where the screen is never still. You also want to make sure that you arent watching a television station for an extended period of time that has that stations logo embossed on one side of the screen. If you do watch one of these stations for too long than youll notice that when you flip to a white screen theyll have that logo etched into the pixels.
Again the best way to avoid the problem of ghosting images appearing on your plasma screen television is to use your particular televisions anti-burn in features and to avoid leaving an image on your television screen for prolonged period of time. If you can do both of these things than you really shouldnt have to worry too much about image burn in. Also, burn in can also be more or less fixed with certain methods even after it has occurred as it is more or less a temporary state in most cases.
