In article , DCA
writes
Sean Black wrote:
In article , StainlessSteelRat
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DCA wrote:
My post was just an up to date assessment which I hoped would be
useful to someone poised to buy.

I'm thinking of getting the Sharp LC46XD1E, which they have for a
nice price :-)


Having looked at quite a few LCDs, I just don't think the picture cuts
it. Looks synthetic - almost like people are computer generated.
I love the vivid and powerful plasma pictures.
Go on, take the 50" panny, 4 " more for £300 less (and you can pay
before November interest free)

I saw it on demo with an HD player, and it looked OK. I've got this
perennial worry with plasma about screen burn and screen life. I see
Digital-Point have got the Sharp with a 3 year warranty as well... I
don't
know what to do!

I've had a Panny plasma for about 18 months now. I watch a lot of
stuff with DOGS (Sky, E4, More 4 etc...) play a lot of Xbox 360 games
too. So far not a hint of screen burn.
So long as you make sure it's not in "Dynamic" mode I don't think
screen burn is an issue these days.

what's up with dynamic mode then?

The brightness and contrast levels are set way up. From what I've heard
it's to make the picture look better in not ideal lighting conditions,
when it's on display in the shop, for example.

It may mention in the manual about running it in when you first get it,
I think it said something like 500 hours in my manual, general consensus
on AV Forums seems to be 200 hours is more than enough, which is how
long I did it for. All you need to is have the brightness and contrast
levels slightly lower than normal (I think anything under half way is
fine, but don't quote me on that) until you have run it in, then it
should be fine on any setting, including dynamic. Personally, I found
dynamic way to bright for my tastes anyway, so it wasn't a problem.

Being nearly 2 years old now, mine is probably a couple of generations
behind the latest ones, so this may not apply now anyway.
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Sean Black