Thanks Plasmatu!
Great job.
I too have downloaded this image and would like to share my experience with it.
Firstly, and I hope this will help some of the less techy amongst us...
The image is compressed in RAR format.
You'll need to use something like WinRAR to decompress the file after you have downloaded it.
This will give you a file with a .ISO extension.
Now I have noticed that when I select burn image from Nero.
It brings up the burn options for burning it to a CD-R.
As I do not know whether my consumer DVD player will play the disc if it's written to CD, I decided to 'mount' the image using WinISO.
Copied all the contents in the VIDEO_TS folder to my hard drive.
Launched Nero to create a 'DVD-Video' template.
And then drag and dropped the files into the 'VIDEO_TS' folder in the template.
Then I just burnt it onto a blank DVD-R.
And it played just fine on my 'normal' dvd player.
As for it's usefulness.
Like someone has already said.
The DVD displays a Black gradient fading to complete white, that scrolls from right to left.
To use, play the DVD, put it on repeat chapter, change profile of your plasma to 'dynamic'. And then just let it run.
Once you've finished cleaning the screen.
Remember to first change the screen profile back to 'standard' before stopping and ejecting the disc.
It does exactly the same purpose as running a snow channel over night.
Except, for me it does seem to be slightly more effective at removing retention than the snow method. This is because the whole screen, every single pixel, is covered by this method. Where as the snow channel, you can see that it is quite random, and I suspect some pixels are activated more frequently than others.
For me, running this disc for about 2hrs is enough to pretty much eradicate any screen retention. (Although your mileage may differ)
The great thing about it, is that because the whole screen is covered with solid colour, it's quick and easy to tell when all the artifacts on the screen has been removed.
Otherwise, it used to be a case, where I would need to run the snow channel.
Stop, put in a cartoon DVD, play it until there is a light scene.
And then run it again, because I've spotted that there's still some screen retention left.
As someone has already pointed out, if you suffer from screen burn, then this DVD will not be able to cure your problem.
If you are not sure if you have screen burn or not.
Try running this DVD for 24-48 hrs.
After that, if you've still got a ghost image on your plasma.
Then unfortunately, I suspect you'll be on the market for a new panel very soon...
I hope my information is of use.
I don't post all to often. But that's because when I do, I end up boring everyone from the topic!
Any way hope the info is useful to someone out there.
And thanks once again for the image.
I, for one think it's a great tool to have.
(Verging on essential for those of us, who owns a 6th gen PIO...!)
Regards,