Can a game system damage a plasma tv?
I personally own a 52 in Sony LCD Bravia and have a 360 hdmi hooked up and a Wii component hooked up. However my step father insists that his 50 in Panasonic Vera is not meant to hook up to game systems because its a plasma. Is there any way a Wii would hurt this Tv? Please include details.
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weather it is being damaged or not it is fulfilling its purpose, nothing lasts forever, and i doubt that playing games on it is any more damaging than watching TV.
Older Plasma sets had issues with "burn-in" or image retention. However, modern Plasmas no longer suffer from this. There are many gamers that currently own Plasmas because of their superior motion playback abilities.
All your step father really needs to do is check the menu system and see if his Viera comes with the anti-image retention feature. It basically runs a white scrub bar across the screen when turned on. If image retention does occur (and its fairly rare these days), he can run that for 30 min or so and it will clear it up. Panasonic sets, once they've been used for over 200 hours, are really hard to get image retention on. That's why they are the best.
As kind of sarcastically mentioned in one of the other replies, all that using the Wii will do to his system is add hours of usage onto it. His TV is rated to 100,000 hours, or there about. So if he only watches say 5 hours of TV a day on it, then it will last more years than he's likely to keep it around. But if you start using the Wii on it a lot during times when he's not watching, then you're eating away at the hours that the TV will last. You'd have to play an awful lot of hours though for it to make a real difference in terms wearing out the TV sooner than say 15-20 years, but none the less, more hours of use means more hours taken off its life.
It is really a low risk.
Your step father is probably referring to image burn-in, where a static image being displayed on a screen for a considerable period of time can leave a permanent "ghost" image on the screen.
This was a greater problem on earlier LCD and Plasma screens and was really noticed when TV companies introduced bright TV logo's in the corner of screens as well as playing a game that had your score and high score displayed constantly along the top or bottom of the screen.
The TV logos are now slightly transparent so you get a moving image underneath, and in anycase after playing a game for a few hours, watching something else on the TV allows the screen to return to normal.
Particulary with the Wii, if you are in a game and wander off for a couple of hours the Wii dims the image preserving your screen and reduces the possibility of burn-in.
Additionally with this particular Vera plasma, the TV has 2 features to combat burn-in.
A) Pixel shifting - Pixel shifting subtly adjusts the pixels (your eye won't pick this up) so an image doesn't get burned into the screen since the pixels don't remain static
Hope this helps and happy gaming!
It will burn in on a plasma tv.
Personally, i believe that Nintendo is a sickening machine