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Originally Posted by shakran
Yes, but not to insult your friend, but he works for Best Buy and is trying to sell TV's using the information his manager hands him -- - and his manager doesn't care if it's true, as long as it sells more TV's.
Burn in absolutely is a problem. If you watch a lot of letterboxed movies, you will end up with bars top and bottom. If you watch a lot of TV, you will probably end up with at least a vague burn in where the station puts the bug.
But even with out burnin you need to deal with burn out, and once that happens you can kiss your entire TV goodbye.
Bottom line is that plasmas pretty much suck. DLP looks better and is much more reliable.
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I mentioned him because MageB420666 stated that he 'worked in a place that sold HDTVs'. I have a personal relationship with someone who I know sells plasma HDTVs on a regular basis, and I place the opinion of my friend at least equal and usually higher than an anonymous person on a forum. There could be many qualified (perhaps moreso) opinions online, but there are also many unqualified opinions that aren't backed up.
Incidentally, my friend who works at Bestbuy is a semester and a half away from an electrical engineering degree. He works there as much for his discount as the flexible schedule. Automatically discounting someone's opinion because of where they work is worse than my discounting yours because you are an anonyous person on a forum who thinks DLPs look better than plasmas.
I have empirical experience with plasmas and a qualified source telling me that burn-in shouldn’t be an issue. It certainly has been in the past. If you leave your new plasma on 100% contrast it could be a problem. But if I was to buy another hdtv, the issues would be cost, blackness, and picture quality. To me, burn-in is not an issue.
My opinion, and I believe the majority opinion, is that plasmas and (debatably) LCD panels look the best, with DLP and LCD projection coming in second. You’re the first I’ve seen to say that DLP looks better. To each their own.
Yeah, phosphor will burn out. Modern panels claim 50-70000 hour half lives, or the point 50% burnout/time for a new tube. I don’t know anyone that has watched 20k+ hours on previous plasma models, so it could be a big deal. Either way, that’s a lot of DLP and LCD projection bulbs at 5-8000 hour lives to get the same lifetime from a tv.