How Do You Prevent And Remove Plasma TV Black Bar Burn-In?
A common, yet easy-to-avoid phenomenon associated with plasma TVs is something known as black bar burn-in. This can occur as a result of spending too much time watching non-widescreen programming with black bars on either side of it. This article shows you the steps to prevent this from happening, as well as the steps that are likely to fix or reduce the problem if it has already occurred. Look at the picture above along with the aspect ratio diagram at left. What you are seeing above is a broadcast in standard definition (12:9 or 4:3 aspect ratio) being displayed on a TV that is designed to accommodate high definition widescreen (16:9 aspect ratio) programming. By default, your widescreen TV may fill the screen by placing black bars to the left and right of the image. Such an image is said to be pillarboxed. The black bars provide good contrast against the centered image, and allow you to view the broadcast in a non-distorted format with no part of the picture missing. However, over t
