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[Scooter911]

Hey,

I recently purchased a Canon Projector and my wife and I are blown away by the new experience.  Movies look better and playing the xbox on a 85" screen is awesome!

I'm certainly not an expert - but our projector is an LCD - and as such I don't believe that they suffer from the burn in effect - but in any event the image never gets a chance to stay constant - I play my games and when I'm done it goes back to the satellite.

Here's an image of Ghost Recon 2 being played on my projector: http://www.krcm.net/bigxbox.jpg

Scooter911

[BarGuy]

Nice Big Screen... I like that thingy sticking outta your ird as well lol

BG

[Gibby 117]

Your health bars are scores tend to stay where they are, just to  let you know you will run a risk, but i dont know to much about the topic.

[JustDanMI]

I have a 61" RCA DLP TV.  which is a type of rear projection TV.  But right in my manuel for the TV is says it's alright to play video games on it.  I believe the same holds true for LCD as well, but don't quote me on it.  A little research does wonders.

[celinedrules]

According to my manual on my Zenith HDTV it takes several hours for burn in to happen. There must be a stationary image on the screen for that length of time.

[Mr Ed]

I'd go for it.  Here's the deal...if you can afford DLP or LCD rear projection or otherwise, get it because they are better and don't suffer burn in.

If you already have, or all you can afford is a rear projection CRT, get it anyway (try to make sure it supports 720p though).  Just be careful about leaving static images on them.

I have a friend with a Mitsubishi Diamond series 65" with the ReplayTV pause symbol burned into the lower right of the screen because they paused a show and for some reason the screensaver never came on.  They left it overnight for like 8 hours.    But if you're careful this won't happen to you.

A bigger concern for me for burn in, was the verticle bars you get on a widescreen TV when watching older 4:3 format TV shows or movies.  I refuse to watch my TV "stretched" where everyone looks short and fat, but they say those bars are bad for TVs that suffer burn in.  I guess now, they make them gray instead of black to try and help, but the manuals still recomend against watching material with bars on the sides.

[xboxmodder4life]

i have a toshiba 51h83 HDTV and play xbox on it all the time and leave static images on it i have no issues with burn in yet(crosses fingers), and i watch the news that has lots of stationary objects. The picture is amazing with HDTV cable and even better with XBOX games in 720P like the tony hawk games that support it.


If i could do it over again though i'd choose a DLP projector over my rear projection unit   because of being able to get a 100inch screen from 10-12ft back is impressive.


So def. get the bigscreen its awsome and worth the move. You will have to get used to some of the stretching modes on standard def. stuff. If you can afford it look into Samsung DLP's or any of the other DLP technology tv's.

Also note that 4:3 stuff looks like crap on some tvs so make sure u view everything u'll be watching on the unit before purchasing

[twistedsymphony]

Along the lines of what Mr Ed said you only really have to be careful with CRT based projectors, and rear projection TVs.

Granted you should be careful not leave the same image on the screen for something like 8 hours but if you're running a CRT and play Halo daily for 3 hours keep tabs on the areas of your screen around the health bar, radar and weapons.

As for LCDs and DLPs I fairly sure they do not suffer from burn in like the older CRT based stuff. Although if you repeat ANY process on any system for long enough, you're bound to break something   (the analogy, how many times do you have to kick a tire before it blows out, comes to mind)

As a side note the new DLPs are super sweet

[Mr Ed]

Yes, CRTs (front and rear projection) and Plasmas are the only ones that can suffer permanent burn in.

Supposedly, LCDs can suffer "temporary" burn in where it can take like an hour for the image to dissipate however, I have several LCD monitors and have NEVER seen that.  I have personally seen burn in on front view and rear projection CRT displays.

[project722]

Any phosphor based tv set, Plasma, RP-CRT, even direct viev
CRT's(takes a very long time for this), can suffer from burn in. LCD, LCOS, DLP,
and DILA dont suffer from burn in.

[pxpx]

QUOTE(Scooter911 @ Jan 3 2005, 09:49 AM)

I'm certainly not an expert - but our projector is an LCD - and as such I don't believe that they suffer from the burn in effect

A projector cannot get screen burn as there is no screen for the projector to burn.

I have a HD Hitachi rear projection, play for hours at a time (all night sometimes) no screenburn.

[project722]

If your going DLP, get a sammy. Together with TI they have been
the DLP king in the market for a few years now. And they keep getting
better. The only issue with dlp's are that some people, well...very few
people, see rainbows due to the spinning color wheel. But give me 3
grand and I'll have a DLP over any other display out there. I think
there is a triple chip DLP in production now, if so kiss the rainbows
goodbye as there will be chips for each color...RGB.

But dont let the so called LCD "burn in"(image persistence) scare you. Burn in typically
refers to uneven phosphor wear on the screen due to high contrast,
static images, and displaying full screen on a widescreen tv. This only
happens with crts and plasma. Image persistence with LCD's is extremely
rare, and in most cases is reversible. It also depends on the quality of
the LCD. I would be more worried with dead pixels in a LCD than
image persistence.