Plasma/LCD TVs while gaming, pros/cons

Plasma Burn in is practically a non-issue and has been for a while. The major issue is that people confuse image retention with burn in and you'll see a lot of people freak out over image retention when they notice it.

Image retention isn't permanent and you'll probably notice it after every session using a plasma. Basic image retention will work itself out after a few minutes and bad image retention will still disappear if you run the tools that come with most plasmas.

To actually do some permanent burn in damage to a plasma screen you'd have to display the same static image on screen for days or even weeks straight before irreversible damage is done. Places like CNET have run such tests and it took their plasma nine straight days to burn in a static image.


As for input lag on plasmas, same deal. It's been a non-issue for a few years now and some plasma screens even have a gaming mode where it will basically bypass most of the image filtering circuitry and give you a near zero response time. You probably won't even need that though. Your going to get more latency though a HDMI cable and its encryption handshake these days than you will from a plasma screen.

Jam it back in, in the dark.