How to avoid image retention?
Other plasma manufacturers avoided acknowledging the potential for burn-in damage on plasma displays. Samsung was the first manufacturer to provide consumers with the tools needed to combat it. Use them! • Avoid still images (e.g. paused video game or movie) on your plasma TV screen for more than 30 minutes at a time. • Avoid non-stop viewing of channels with fixed station logos or where the screen is consistently divided into fixed parts, such as cable news channels. • Enable pixel shifting. • Use Stretch to Fit or Zoom Mode when appropriate to avoid displaying black bars. • After the initial break-in period, the potential for burn-in from constant displaying of black bars is greatly reduced. Some movies need the black bars to maintain the correct aspect ratio. While displaying black bars for several hours will do no harm, try to limit their use to those times when they are really needed. • Use the White Screen feature weekly to examine your display for any evidence of IR.
