Thanks for the info, its of value and has more or less confirmed my choice in favour of the PQ. Am I right in saying that its wise to reduce brightness and contrast to approx 50% initially to extend the screen life and reduce image retention, or is this just a myth. Surely the picture must look dreadfull.
Turn the contrast and colour down to around 50% (colour's usually there-ish anyway) and then adjust brightness to make the picture watchable, it might be higher than 50% but that doesn't matter, there's a brief explanation in the guide if you want to take a look at it, but it's not hugely important.
Anyway, the running in process isn't essential, as you can have different settings saved on each input then I'd recommend doing it for any inputs with static images for long periods (such as game consoles), otherwise SD TV and movies are generally fine, unless you watch news/sports channels a lot. I didn't run in my PG6000 and I use it for gaming, I have no burn in issues, I just kept an eye on IR to make sure it didn't get too serious.
Turning the settings down does technically extend screen life, but not to a noticeable degree, the reason is extends screen life is that every time a plasma pixel is lit it's a little bit dimmer, if you don't light it as brightly then it will stay brighter for longer, so turning the settings down will always make it last longer, but on normal settings it should technically last well over 20 years on 10 hours a day before the screen reaches half the original brightness.
Hi everyone, I am new to all this so please excuse if I ask anything stupid!
I have recently bought an LG42PQ3000 on the whole the factory settings are pretty good, however when watching football (on the far side of the pitch) the players have a ghostly, pixellated appearance, is this normal? I have asked LG customer support who suggest watching in sport mode, this basically screws up the colour and does not improve the problem, I suffered this problem on a previous LCD TV and switched to Plasma to try and improve. Any suggestions? I am on Virgin media but the problem seems to have come on since the digital switchover, particularly poor on ESPN.
HELP?
Hello and welcome to the forums,
what you're seeing there is in the broadcast, and is a side effect of low bandwith broadcast, you'll notice that it's worse on some channels than others, but it usually shows up most on sports. Unfortunately you will have to live with it, turning the noise reduction on might help somewhat, but wont cure it completely, alternatively the HD channels are usually better (ESPN HD for example) but of course that means a freesat/sky HD/V+ box is needed.
It's a very valid question though