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Allisen1987
10-29-2003, 12:18 PM
My family just bought a new widescreen TV. Do I need to worry about playing games on it? Someone mentioned screen burn? Can I safely play games by doing precautionary things? How many games on XBOX support widescreen? Can anyone give me some helpful advice before I ruin my TV? Any advice? The TV is a 65 inch LCD what ever that means.
Darwin
10-29-2003, 02:40 PM
<div class=\"smallfont\">My family just bought a new widescreen TV. Do I need to worry about playing games on it? Someone mentioned screen burn? Can I safely play games by doing precautionary things? How many games on XBOX support widescreen? Can anyone give me some helpful advice before I ruin my TV? Any advice? The TV is a 65 inch LCD what ever that means.</div>

Whoa, that's a big TV. Even bigger than mine.

"You have the ring. And I see that your Swarts is as big as mine."

Anyway, from my limited knowledge of these types of things, here is what I know. Anyone feel free to add or corrrect me.

LCD: Liquid Crystal Display. All I know is that this type of technology allows for a much thinner screen and that the screen does all kinds of acid-trippy stuff if you run your finger on it. Most laptop computers use an LDC screen.

Screen burn-in occurs when a static image is left too long on your TV. Screen burn-in occurs in high-powered televisions, mainly projection-screen TV's. Projection TV's can have faint images burnt-in if a game renders an imagine for too long (like the health bar when playing Halo because that imagine stays in one place for a long time).

I think LDC's are not really subject to screen burn-in. LCD's are relatively low-powered TV's and wouldn't "burn" much of anything into the screen. I think it is safe for you to play games on your LCD TV.

If you are having any doubts, call the place where the TV was bought and ask them. Or, call Curcuit City, they seemed to know a lot about screen burn-in.

To get the best possible imagine of your XBox games, you're gonna need to get either the High Definition TV pack for Xbox (by Microsoft), or the High Definition Monster Cables (from Monster). These cables have the 5-pronged connections to plug into the back of your TV (2 prongs for audio, and 3 for video).
Allisen1987
10-30-2003, 06:08 AM
Wow, you're smart! I'll let you know what they say about it and post it here if I find out. Thanks babe.

I think game developers should keep this in mind when developing games. I've noticed games like Jak II have static images but they appear and disappear frequently? Maybe developers are taking this to consideration? Other games like sports titles show a lot of breaks in the game so the static images do not stay on for long. I think it should be an important thing for developers to keep in mind because many people have projection TV's and there is nothing worse then ruining your TV in less than 2 hours.Kisses.
mass
10-30-2003, 11:46 AM
My family just bought a new widescreen TV. Do I need to worry about playing games on it? Someone mentioned screen burn? Can I safely play games by doing precautionary things? How many games on XBOX support widescreen? Can anyone give me some helpful advice before I ruin my TV? Any advice? The TV is a 65 inch LCD what ever that means.

I'm not sure who makes a 65 inch lcd set, but the new lcd sets or dlp sets don't suffer from burn-in problems. Conventional RPTV models can if left on for too long, but we're talking major abuse here, like freezing a game image and taking off for the weekend.

Plasma sets are the worst for burn-in and I've heard that a few hours can do some major damage to your set.
Allisen1987
10-31-2003, 04:49 AM
IM DUMB, IT'S NOT AN LCD MONITOR. IT'S JUST A HD TV. Sorry.
Darwin
10-31-2003, 09:03 AM
<div class=\"smallfont\">IM DUMB, IT'S NOT AN LCD MONITOR. IT'S JUST A HD TV. Sorry.</div>

An HDTV of that size that you mentioned, may actually be a projection TV or even plazma TV. Check the manual of the TV or ask the person who bought it if this is a projection or plasma TV. Those types of TVs may have burn-in problems
Allisen1987
10-31-2003, 12:01 PM
It's not a Plasma but not LCD either, it's a Sony Wide Screen Projection TV. Do I need to worry?
mass
10-31-2003, 09:49 PM
<div class=\"smallfont\">It's not a Plasma but not LCD either, it's a Sony Wide Screen Projection TV. Do I need to worry?</div>

Under normal circumstances, no. I've played countless hours on my own crt based RPTV and have had no problems. Leaving a static image for hours on end, yes, that can potentially cause a problem.
Darwin
11-01-2003, 10:17 AM
Just don't leave your games running unattended, or leave the pause menu on for a significant period of time and it looks like you'll be OK.