Don’t hate to be the guy, I’ve seen several myself, again though the owner’s manuals clearly state; don’t leave them on channels with fixed logos or stock tickers for extended periods.

Another thing to keep in mind is that after the whole Wimbledon lawsuit in the UK, many networks began toying around with slow fades and other methods of reducing the potential for burn-in with their logos, tickers etc.

I’m not discounting the fact that it occurs, I’m just stating that it has become much less of a worry than in the past, many plasma manufacturers have tweaked the gas mixture in their displays to be much less prone to this than in the early models.

And yes, in many cases it was just a matter of them being left on CNN for hours at a time, hey if your viewing habits include hours upon hours of the weather channel and network news, you’re probably better off with an LCD anyway.

All can probably be put down to user error or bad maintenance, however I do see it as a potential problem for someone who watches the same channel consistently or who forgets to turn their games machine off at night etc…

I prefer the look of plasma TV’s but have to say I don’t agree with Sam that LCD is an inferior technology. In its short lifetime as a mainstream TV product it has caught up and IMO surpassed plasma technology, it uses less power, is cheaper and easier to manufacture (and dispose of) and can achieve higher resolutions with an ease that plasma simply can not match.

I’ve got two $10,000+ broken Plasma’s in my office that have given up the ghost due to power supply problems, both are less than 4 years old.

Currently I own a Sony rear projection, but hope to replace that when I buy a house with a projector in the basement. However, I do want a few monitors around the house, probably bed rooms, dens, etc. Who knows, after reading this, I might reconsider making them plasmas.