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Edited by Multi sKills:
11/20/2014 4:49:53 PM
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Plasma Screen HUD Burn-In
Destiny is console exclusive, which means almost all players play on a television, not a monitor. Many of these players play on plasma screens, millions in fact. The average play session of Destiny is logged by Bungie at 4 hours. I fall around that mark, and that's about all I've used my TV for lately, as I'm sure is the same for many players.
This leads to a huge problem, one that may have already permanently damaged my near $3K TV, the HUD is burnt into my display.
I'm a very proud owner of the "65in Panasonic VT60, and I paid a very pretty penny for it. Millions of others also playDestiny on plasmas, and the fact is no matter how "worn in" a plasma is, it is still prone to burn-in or image retention.
Either can occur after a static image is left on the screen for an extended period of time, like say, playing Destiny for a few hours a day, with no other content appearing on the TV in between.
From my recent average playtime, I now have a retained image of the bottom left HUD area burnt in my display; super bar, all 3 weapon slots, among blur where ammo is counted and so on.
I left my TV wiping for 12 hours, and the image is still there.
(Update 11/19) My TV has been wiping for almost 24 hours, and still has the HUD clearly burned in.
(Update 11/20) My TV has been wiping for almost 48 hours straight. The HUD is still there, but instead of a dark gray shadow, it seems to be a tinge of pink. This is a bad sign)
There is a simple solution for preventing this, and still being able to enjoy long play sessions. Battlefield 4 got this perfect right off the bat, they added the option to adjust HUD opacity in the video options. This completely stomped the possibility for image retention, and even after hundreds of hours of gameplay I never had a problem.
For those who don't know, this option would make it possible to have your HUD slightly see-through so the pixels are being stimulated.
This is a very big deal, and has the potential to ruin many plasmas, only from playing Destiny for an average play session, even with days in between.
BUNGIE PLEASE, add a simple HUD opacity slider and put all your plasma owners at ease.
Love, every Destiny player with a plasma.
Please comment to get this noticed.
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1 ReplyEdited by Dizman7: 11/19/2014 7:49:52 PMYeah plasmas aren't really for gaming. This is exactly why I returned my Panasonic ST65 this time last year. There are plenty of resources on the web stating this. Analogy I made is plasmas are like Ferraris, they have superior performance, but you wouldn't want to use one as a daily driver. The picture quality was amazing, (mostly, when linebleed didn't crop up) made GTA5 on 360 look like next-gen compared to my old TV. Anyway, my point was even after "proper" break-in (running colored slides for 150hrs before using it), and having the image shift option on and even running slides after 1+ hours of gaming Id still easily start to get burn in from games to network TV logos. It be came way too much of a stresser for me to enjoy my gaming habits (3-6hrs a day), and I realized a plasma was NOT the TV for what I wanted to do. I returned it to Best Buy after 2weeks and got a cheaper LED Samsung and have been happy ever since. Sure the picture isn't nearly as amazing, but the trade off is I never once have to think about if gaming an extra hour would damage the thing. Plasmas have amazing picture quality, but only really practical as an "extra" TV that you only use an hour or 2 a day. Like if you have a theater room or something. But using as a primary "living room" TV is going to quickly become a headache, especially if your someone with an eye for detail and/or an avid gamer. [b]Edit[/b]: Also I highly doubt "millions" play Destiny on a plasma, as plasma TVs only accounted for less than 6% of all TV sales last year.
