Recommend a place to buy the Panasonic TH-50PH9UK Plasma

[Jeremy Garchow]

Yes, turn on the grey, and the manual recommends them in bright mode. Also, there’s an option about pixel shift or ‘wobbling’ that ever so slightly moves the lines of the screen so that it’s never really in the same position. It is imperceptible to the eyes. it also in there with the screen saving options. Since I have been doing both of those (the grey and the wobbling) I do not see the lines that I have mentioned before. It seems to be working. I cannot stand to watch blown up images (cropped) or worse, stretched. The first time I tuned on the grey bars, i thought they were rather ugly. Now, they are less obtrusive. As with you, I have no idea what Panasonic considers an ‘extended time’ for burn in. WOuld a ten hour edit session be an extended amount of time? I don’t know. To be safe, I turned on the ‘bright’ grey bars and the pixel wobbling and haven’t looked back since. While I try to keep as much HD or 4:3 anamorphic content as possible up there, it is still necessary for me to keep it pillarbox from time to time. Good luck and have fun.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Borjis] “is it true that this unit will pillar box with gray colors on the sides instead of black?”

You can turn the grey on or off and you also have three brightness settings for the grey, basically bright, medium and dark. Turning them off leaves black.

Jeremy

[Bob Flood]

hi

my 2 cents:

we only use our big screen for 16×9 stuff. if a client wants to be working in 4×3, we use our sony pvm 19″ good ol fashion CRT TV Monitor. In a way, its kinda like using the medium for the message. (or is that massage?)

also, our 16×9 has a “white screen” mode to clear up burns so i imagine pumping some 98% white into any flat screen would clear up burns

and be really careful with timecode window viewing. the window burns in real easy.

(anyone remember shooting white cards to get rid of burns in plumbicon cameras?)

bee eph