LCD TV Rating

is it safe to use gaming consoles on LCD televisions?

a person i know wont let her children use a playstation or nintendo on her tv because she says it will wreck the image on it. is it right whats shes saying or will i be ok?

Public Comments

1. Yes, depending on the brand. The older style and less expensive models are definitely out of the question. Prolonged use of the game will burn permanently into the screen creating ghost images. Don't always trust a salesman that works on commission to tell you the truth about the do and don't of the TV. Ask Best Buy salespeople. Check Consumer Reports. Better still, find someone else you know that has the type of TV you do, and let them be the Guinea pig. Whatever you do, if the manufacturer says the TV is good for video games, get it in writing, keep all receipts and warranties. Good luck.
2. I play my 360 on an LCD flat panel and I have no ghost images..... I've had it attached to the TV for over a year too...
3. You can use video game systems on these TVs. I have had one for over a year and play games every day with no problems. I was told not to let games paused with the TV on for extended periods of time (hours) because it is possible for images to be "burned" into the screen. When I need to pause a game for a while I simply turn the TV off and back on when I am ready to resume my game.
4. Don't confuse Plasma with LCD; LCD displays are not as bright as plasma, and so use of consoles of them is typically safe (so long as you obey common sense, and not pause a game or something and leave it on for hours on the same image - just like an LCD PC monitor.) Plasma TV's are brighter, and thusly hotter - early models of them had trouble with burn-in. Burn-in only occurs when an image is static in the same place on a display for prolonged amounts of time. Typical things that burn in on older Plasmas are the logos that TV networks place on the bottom right of the screen on their shows. Also, the static images on Heads Up Displays in most video games. In closing, LCD's are very resilient to burn-in, especially if kids aren't playing their games for more than 3-4 hours at a time.