I realize these beat around the edge of some very common questions.. I've read several faq type sites on the internet trying to get answers to my specific questions, but haven't found what I'm looking for.
1 - Watching a movie with black bars on the sides/top & bottom - Does doing this, say, twice a week, have any long term effect on quality plasmas? I don't like the grey bars displayed that some tv's project.. it just looks funny.
2 - Displaying a gray screen to "wash" out any burn in.. Does this have the same effect of white washing the display? I've heard that doing this, white washing, will get rid of most pixels that have been effected by burn in, but significantly lowers the life of the display.
I was talking to a seemingly knowledgable rep at best buy recently. I asked about burn in and if it was really a factor with the latest displays. He said "let me show you what has happened to our floor models." (the store had just opened 3 weeks prior to this) He went up to a panasonic or samsung display and changed it to a white screen. You could clearly see a vertical line separating each half of the screen (you know what you typically see displaying the "normal resolution" on one side and HD on the other) Granted, these tv's were set to display ONE thing, and had been doing so for several weeks... but if I were to watch movies a few times a week for a year or two, would the screen suffer from burn in?
Thanks for the help -
