Is it possible to get rid of burn in????? — Community

#1 Oct 1, 2006 at 2:47 am

I recently noticed that my 6 year old Hitachi 53 inch RPTV has some burn in on the screen.
It appears to be the sale item boxes that are continuously displayed on the QVC channel from DirecTV. My wife watches this channel all the time.

Is there anyway to get rid of this burned in image?

I thought I had read somewhere that you could try putting your TV on a white screen and this could help.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

#2 Oct 1, 2006 at 4:42 pm

It appears to be the sale item boxes that are continuously displayed on the QVC channel from DirecTV. My wife watches this channel all the time.

Yup, that'll do it! Especially if you have not turned the contrast down to 50-60... This is a not a good TV to be used for background noise from news and QVC type channels since it is suceptable; same for plasma.

Plasma is easier to burn and easier to try and wipe away using white screens and such.

To have a chance at removing this you would need to feed a negative image of QVC so to speak to make the sales item box black and the rest white and run it for about the same amount of hours that created the problem. Of course any attempt to do so would diminish light output all around. Good chance you have the ghosty trails of lettering in that window too and not much can be done about that.

The instant and best performance solution would be retubing but that is pricey; figure $500-800 for just one tube and $1100-1400 for all three. This is one of the advantages of having a lamp based display; change a $200-300 lamp and you have a new TV!

#3 Oct 1, 2006 at 5:12 pm

Richard,
Thanks for your quick response. I appreciate your info.

So if I understand you correctly...........trying a white screen will not work?

I did not understand your recommendation about a negative screen of QVC. I am unsure how to do that. Please explain how to do this.

Would you recommend that I try the white screen on the TV and leave it on for several days at a time..........or is this useless.

Thanks

Mike

#4 Oct 1, 2006 at 5:44 pm

So if I understand you correctly...........trying a white screen will not work?

It will wear down all tubes evenly but how would that change the QVC box? You need to wear down only the areas around the QVC box hence the statement about a negative of QVC where the white box is black and the stuff around it is white. As you point out that is going to be very difficult to do and it was put forward as a rhetorical response for that reason.

Simply put, you are stuck for the most part.

Now there was a guy a couple of years ago that actually sat down on a PC and put together an image just as described for a plasma. Are you handy with graphics and your PC with lots of hours to play with...? I guess the first step is capturing the QVC image...