Games & gear forum: Xbox harms your flat screen TV?

Some fear of burn-in.
If you had objects that stay in the same place for a long time it could burn in.
Same thing if you watch tv and had there little symbol on the bottom corner.
or Pause a movie for a great time.
This is mainly a problem for Plasma and CRT tvs.
Older tvs had more of a problem with this.
New one's not so much.

A new tv should have the brightness turned down for the first 100 hrs to help prevent this.
I have a plasma and a xbox 360. No problems here! ; )

I pulled this off the web>>>>>>>>>>

Burn-in

Screen burn-in can damage displays that rely on a phosphor coating on the screen plasma TVs and rear-projection CRT-based TVs are the most vulnerable to burn-in, and it's less likely, but possible with direct-view CRT TVs. Burn-in can occur when a static image such as a video game, stock or news ticker, or station logo remains on-screen for an extended period (generally several hours). These images can become etched into the phosphor coating, leaving faint but permanent impressions on-screen. In recent years, makers of plasma TVs have refined the panel technology and included anti-burn-in features which substantially reduce the chances of burn-in. Plasma owners can also help to prevent burn-in by properly adjusting the TV's brightness and contrast settings when the TV is new.

I'm going to assume that your wife read something on "burn in".
First off, if you have a LCD TV, you shouldnt have to worry about burn in.
However, all phosphor based display systems (CRT and plasma TVs) are susceptible to image retention also known as "ghosting, image shadowing, or burn in". Burn in is caused by leaving a static image on the screen for a long period of time which causes
damage to pixels by prematurely aging phosphors which therefore glow less intensely than those of surrounding pixels on a plasma or CRT TV screen. The damaged or "burned in" pixel develops a "memory" of the color information that was repeatedly fed to it in a static manner over a period of time. And that phosphor color information has actually become seared or etched into the plasma TV glass.
For the past couple of years the resistance of plasma TVs to "burn in" has been greatly improved. Many manufacturers us a technique called motion adaptive anti burn in technology, which causes static images on the screen to constantly move so slightly that the movement cant be detected by the human eye but still moves the image enough to cause color changes in the pixels. A second technique used by some manufacturers is improvement in the phosphor gas itself in order to make it more resistant to burn in.
As a result of these advancements, a couple of prominent manufacturers now claim that plasma TVs have the same burn in resistance and susceptibility as CRT TVs.
In my opinion, burn in isnt near the problem that its been made out to be. The only places that I have personally witnessed it are in places like airports where they've used an older plasma TV to display flight information (so 24 hours a day, 7 days a week of static images and on older generation plasmas) and on older projection TVs used for gaming. I admittedly dont own an HDTV yet, but the reason I dont is because my 32 Toshiba CRT TV still works perfectly fine after 15 years and I just cant see spending money to replace it until it dies. My Toshiba has seen countless hours of gaming over these last 15 years and has not experienced any burn in.

I think if you read a lot of the posts from people with plasma screens, they say that you need to sort of "break in" the display for like 100 hours or so before doing much gaming or burn-in is a possibility.

ANY time you have a static, or relatively static, display on a screen there's a chance for burn-in if it's left on there long enough. And some TVs will be more prone to this than others, depending on how they were made, when they were made, and even some random dumb luck.

The TV, not the game.

..."you'd need to leave the exact same image on the screen for several days for that to happen."

does the phrase "couldn't hit the broad side of a barn" mean anything to you?

So airing a grievance I have with your bad advice is considered childish by you? First rate jacka$$? I'm actually amuzed by that. I'm not sure what world you live in, but the rest of us live in one where you're held accountable for things. That includes not spouting off about things we don't know about. Foolish is referring to my voiced displeasure with your less than helpful advice as "throwing a temper tantrum". Wake up and step down from your desk chair Jimmy. If you don't like my comments, tough. Then don't respond to my thread...I wish you hadn't in the first place.

Btw, I have taken measures to improve the situation. What, did you expect me to consult you with this? That's laughable.

how is that even related to the subject we're supposed to be talking about called a "burn in" you DUMBA$$! get back on task

thank you so much! i knew it would not cause a "burn in"!!