Posted by Jules on 12/30/05 14:41

"Damon" <d_shawcrossNOTTISBIT@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Jules" <julian@julianporter.co.uk> wrote in
> news:dp1h4g$qoi$1@nwrdmz02.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a 28 day old Poineer 436 XDE and I tonight noticed in the top
>> right hand corner the discovery logo has burned into the screen, I
>> only watch disco channel about an hour a night and every other day,
>>
>> is there anything I can do about this ?
>>
>> Cheers jules
>
> Jules, don't be hasty what you are talking about is almost certainly
> image retention, not screen burn and it will fade and dissapear given
> time.you didn't run the screen in using lower brightness, colour and
> contrast settings as you are supposed to for the first 200 - 300 hours
> viewing and people should keep the kids off Cebeebees and other logo
> heavy channels for extended periods during the break in period, change
> channel every so often or zoom the image every so often?
>
> Also, Seems a little unfair on the shop you got this from, that because
> you didn't take known precautions they will now possibly take a loss on
> this item.
>
> Check the AVForums plasma forum for threads about this issue and how you
> should treat a plasma in the initial period.
>
> Also there is a batch that need a firmware fix to rectify a pixel voltage
> issue that is partially to blame for this occurance. My 436XDE suffers
> none of these issues from what I have seen but this is from a December
> 2005 build with the firmware fixed out of the box.
>
> Damon

Hi Damon,

Thats great info mate thanks,

I would just say tho that I had no idea about any 200 hour run in time until
this morning, I do now of course understand but before had no idea at all,

The shop were ok about it appart from they said I should have lowered the
contrast, problem is again nobody bothered to tell me that,

What firmware do you have and how is it updated ?

Mine is an October build

Cheers Jules

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