Futurevoid
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That's strange. I'm coming from a VT50 and IR got /better/ with time on the set along with black levels, etc. It's one of the reasons I absolutely loved the Panasonic plasmas. After hours of game use, I would see the HUD retained but as soon as I switched content, it would disappear relatively quickly. Never had any level of burn-in on it or on the VT25 I owned before it. IR was absolutely there. No doubt.I might have a bad/worse panel than you guys but it's certainly not a rare problem with these sets. AVS is full of reports that mirror mine.
It's weird because for the first 3-6 months or so it was much better. It could easily go 30min on the same channel without retaining the white channel logo. Then out of nowhere the IR became ridiculous. Even after warm up, all it takes is 7-10 seconds of white and it's gonna hang for a little while. It's not like I have the Contrast set to 90+ either. It's at 68 I believe.
I can say having owned the B6 now for over a month that it doesn't display anywhere near the level of IR that I got on the VT50 if at all (I legit have not noticed anything as of yet). I fully expected similar behavior to a plasma having read impressions of the technology but between the automatic screen clean cycles which the TV performs after four hours of use and the manual cycle that can be run - it's been an marked improvement over the plasma for me. I also have the screen shift option enabled as well which is similar to the pixel orbiter function on the plasmas.