pc on plasma screen

**fozz** · 10-23-2003, 08:05 AM

just picked my self up a nice 42" hitachi plasma screen and thought id try it on my pc on it just out of curiosity,not expecting much after bad experiances with tv out in past.however going through the 15 pin d sub thus iliminating interlacing i was rather amazed by the results,rock solid steady picture and gaming on it rather amazing and using on net just like using a massive monitor in terms of quility.sadly the screen only surports upto 1024x1024 res and has other linitation similar to lcd but with loads of aa and anio a very good picture anyway.

any other plasma users on here btw

**commanderkeen** · 10-23-2003, 08:24 AM

I've never gotten 'round to it. I have a 42" plasma... I think it supports 1280 * 1024, but I'm not sure. It would be sweet seeing how it works though.

**mikeysg** · 10-23-2003, 09:02 AM

I've got my 50" Pioneer plasma hooked up to my Intel rig, with 4xAA/AF, IQ's great

. I've got mine at 1024x768, I'm happy with this res, I know I can go higher BUT I'm not at all displeased with the pic as it is.

UT2003 NEVER looked better!!!

**fozz** · 10-23-2003, 09:30 AM

sweet 50 inch wow-do you use yours for surfing etc or just gaming.i like net on mine but im a little worried about screen burn as i ve heard plasmas can be suseptable to this if a still image is projected on screen for to long.
as i side note a big screen brings new life to the old mame games.arcade perfect street fighter 2 on a 42" screen

**mikeysg** · 10-23-2003, 10:13 AM

Originally posted by fozz
sweet 50 inch wow-do you use yours for surfing etc or just gaming.i like net on mine but im a little worried about screen burn as i ve heard plasmas can be suseptable to this if a still image is projected on screen for to long.
as i side note a big screen brings new life to the old mame games.arcade perfect street fighter 2 on a 42" screen

The plasma's reserved for gaming goodness - UT2003, BHD and Tron2.0, they look stunning! - and DivX movie viewing only!

For surfing, I've got my AMD and a laptop/notebook, don't wanna waste energy, besides, plasma do get rather hot!

**ryandinan** · 10-23-2003, 12:33 PM

Be careful using plasmas as gaming monitors -
Plasma's use phosphor and thus, are capable of burn - even much more quickly than RPTV using CRTs.
Keep static images away from these (this goes for anything that's static - score, meters, television station bugs, stock tickers, etc) otherwise you'll ruin a nice expensive display...

-Ryan

**irwincur** · 10-23-2003, 04:12 PM

and DivX movie viewing only!

Even a good DivX encode will look like **** on a 50" plasma. Most look like **** on my 30" CRT HDTV.

**Kill-Switch** · 10-23-2003, 06:37 PM

Originally posted by ryandinan
Plasma's use phosphor ...

Since when!? Plasma displays use gases, hence the name Plasma display.

**commanderkeen** · 10-23-2003, 10:25 PM

Originally posted by Kill-Switch
Since when!? Plasma displays use gases, hence the name Plasma display.

True that, read this http://pst.pppl.gov/tt/pdf_files/pla...play_panel.PDF

**mikeysg** · 10-23-2003, 10:51 PM

Originally posted by irwincur
Even a good DivX encode will look like **** on a 50" plasma. Most look like **** on my 30" CRT HDTV.

DivX movies aren't that bad, besides watching DVDs, like finding Nemo - the sea environment and surface water look stunning

- most of the time, I watch DVDs with it (forgot, DVDs are my passion)

**fozz** · 10-24-2003, 08:24 AM

the image retention phenomenon of a plasma panel occurs due to partialphosphor degrigation

queted from the hitachi instruction manual so if its wrong dont flame me

**ryandinan** · 10-24-2003, 10:19 AM

Isn't that basically what I said?

Phosphor dims with use - and if you leave static images up, the phosphor burns unevenly (faster in the high-intensity areas of the image than the lower-intensity areas).

Ever see a bowling alley score monitor? That's what'll happen if you leave stuff up for too long.

-Ryan

**kpxgq** · 10-24-2003, 12:09 PM

i heard plasmas die after a few years of use.. that would suck

**mikeysg** · 10-24-2003, 12:28 PM

Originally posted by kpxgq
i heard plasmas die after a few years of use.. that would suck

Yep, but there's like 30k hours of life in her, so at 10hr/day, 30,000/10=3000days divided by 365=8.2years. After that length of time, I'd prolly wanna get a new TV.

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