RE: Plasma Horror! was "First MP3 results in - Tim eats his words!"

["Timothy Morris" <timothy.morris@xxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 07 May 2001 17:08
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Plasma Horror! was "First MP3 results in - Tim
eats
> his words!"
>
>
> On the plasma front, did anyone else notice how badly gone the plasma
> screens are in Luton Airport already?!?
>
> At the main check-in desks, there are 120 of them. now even at 4K a
pop,
> that's nearly half a million pounds worth of quite visibly burnt
plasma
> screens.
>
> Keep us posted on the longevity of your screen Tim! I hope as well as
> improving the image quality etc, they have done something about the
burn
> problems.
>

I think a lot of it is down to how they are used. According to Panasonic
technical there are some clever things going on in software to minimise the
possibility of burn in, but if abused, as it would be in an airport then
there's no way of totally eliminating it. I'm told that there is a way of
coping with the black bar problem, but as I tend to use it more for full
frame viewing than 2.35:1, I'm not too worried.

The only thing that slightly worries me, is that the cricket season is
about
to start, and Sky Digital insist on using "hard" dogs on the
sports
channels. 8 hours a day of watching for 5 days at a time will give it a
challenge, but if the worst comes to the worst it is covered by the
accidental damage clause on my household insurance :)

Tim