Vipers
Prominent Member
Hi Everyone,
Been avidly reading these forums for afew weeks now,doin my research and I'm ready to take the plunge. It was always between the the Pioneer PDP-436XDE and the Panny TH65PV500, but it looks like the Pioneer is going to be the one for me, although I must say after going to the Comet in Stevenage yesterday where both screens sit side by side, although the 436XDE had a more vibrant and clearer picture running the Comet HD demo it did seen to suffer from more screen noise than the Panny, it seemed that although the picture seemed flatter on the Panny it helped smooth out any problems, I suppose it could just be how they are set up, maybe too much brightness and contrast on the Pioneer.
Anyway my two problems with Plasma's has always been screen burn and the lack of a 1920x1080 screen defination, now apparantly that resolution on anything under a 50inch + screen is someway off, so I thought I'd e-mail Pioneer about the screen burn problem and pass it on for anyone else who's concerned about it, This is their reply :-
Thanks for your email.
Screen burn used to be a problem with the early plasma screens, with recent
screens the phosphors within the screens are more resistant to screen burn and also they recover better from an extended period of over excitement.
The screen does offer a gaming mode and this reduces the overall brightness a bit to also reduce the affect of burn or after image.
In normal mixed gaming and regular TV use you will be fine, even if you have the exactly the same image on the screen for a whole weekend the screen would be fine, but you should avoid displaying exactly the same image 24 hours a day for weeks on end.
During the first 100 to 200 hours it is best to avoid extended periods of
gaming, a few hours at a time but not much more than that, once the screen has 'beded in' then you can do almost anything that you want.
Regards.
Customer Relations
PIONEER GB LIMITED
This response is provided in good faith but Pioneer GB Ltd cannot warrant the
accuracy or completeness of information given, its suitability for any
particular purpose and it may contain technical or typographical errors. All
liability of Pioneer howsoever arising is expressly excluded to the fullest
extent permitted by law.
So that helped ease my fears, so here is what I'm buying in the next week or so, any comment would bee very welcome :-
Pioneer PDP-436XDE
Yamaha DSP-AX757SE
Denon DVD 1920
Running on my Bose Speakers
Thanks,
Vipers
Been avidly reading these forums for afew weeks now,doin my research and I'm ready to take the plunge. It was always between the the Pioneer PDP-436XDE and the Panny TH65PV500, but it looks like the Pioneer is going to be the one for me, although I must say after going to the Comet in Stevenage yesterday where both screens sit side by side, although the 436XDE had a more vibrant and clearer picture running the Comet HD demo it did seen to suffer from more screen noise than the Panny, it seemed that although the picture seemed flatter on the Panny it helped smooth out any problems, I suppose it could just be how they are set up, maybe too much brightness and contrast on the Pioneer.
Anyway my two problems with Plasma's has always been screen burn and the lack of a 1920x1080 screen defination, now apparantly that resolution on anything under a 50inch + screen is someway off, so I thought I'd e-mail Pioneer about the screen burn problem and pass it on for anyone else who's concerned about it, This is their reply :-
Thanks for your email.
Screen burn used to be a problem with the early plasma screens, with recent
screens the phosphors within the screens are more resistant to screen burn and also they recover better from an extended period of over excitement.
The screen does offer a gaming mode and this reduces the overall brightness a bit to also reduce the affect of burn or after image.
In normal mixed gaming and regular TV use you will be fine, even if you have the exactly the same image on the screen for a whole weekend the screen would be fine, but you should avoid displaying exactly the same image 24 hours a day for weeks on end.
During the first 100 to 200 hours it is best to avoid extended periods of
gaming, a few hours at a time but not much more than that, once the screen has 'beded in' then you can do almost anything that you want.
Regards.
Customer Relations
PIONEER GB LIMITED
This response is provided in good faith but Pioneer GB Ltd cannot warrant the
accuracy or completeness of information given, its suitability for any
particular purpose and it may contain technical or typographical errors. All
liability of Pioneer howsoever arising is expressly excluded to the fullest
extent permitted by law.
So that helped ease my fears, so here is what I'm buying in the next week or so, any comment would bee very welcome :-
Pioneer PDP-436XDE
Yamaha DSP-AX757SE
Denon DVD 1920
Running on my Bose Speakers
Thanks,
Vipers