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Thread: Olympic rings burned into your plasma TV? Inconsiderate Prime/Sky

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    Olympic rings burned into your plasma TV? Inconsiderate Prime/Sky

    Do you have a plasma TV? Have you had the Prime TV/Sky Olympics on a lot? Have a look at some other material and see if you can still see those olympic rings when there is a light background. If you can they have burned into your plasma display. Hopefully this will fade and eventually go away in time.

    I called Prime yesterday and asked them to tone the rings down so that my plasma and others would not have to be showing these rings for the next months. The reply I got was that this was not their fault. It was because of my "settings". I find this very disappointing since it shows a lack understanding and a self centered approach. Their attitude is that it can not be their fault and the customer is to blame. I have had my plasma TV on the same settings for about a year and never had any issues resembling this. I therefore believe that this problem has nothing to do with my settings but everything to do with the fact that Prime/Sky insists on broadcasting material that can damage plasma screens. I find this a remarkably self centered and silly approach since it would be easy for them to fade the rings to a gray similar to the gray of the Prime logo and then no one would have this problem.

    Since Prime/Sky does not seem to be a customer service oriented company and it does not seem to want to implement simple measures for their benefit I will aviod doing any business with them in the future and I encourage any others to consider their dealings with this company carefully.

    Have a look at your plasma and if you are not happy please call Prime on 0800 759 759 or their email form available from this page.

    https://skytv.custhelp.com/app/answe...dxMWMzbA%3D%3D

    Enjoy the olympics but take care of your TV...
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    Plasma is so last year.
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    but once again you proved me wrong.
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    so I should just get a gray tone LCD display so that Prime does not brand my display with the rings? I don't think so...
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    CRT for the win. Dont believe the hype.
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    but once again you proved me wrong.
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    I was hit by one such driver while remaining in the view of their mirror.

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    You know there is a setting to 'clean' your screen aye, takes about 2 minutes and removes any residual images

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    Plasma? do they still make those?

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    Thanks, but wouldn't it be nice if Prime could have the rings a light gray like their logo? It is not as if anyone is any doubt that they are broadcasting the olympics...
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    So you have a TV that holds images that stay on them for a period of time.

    Guess that makes watching porn a problem.......
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    Grey - white or seal liver puce it won't matter as you will get some screen burn with a plasma. Most modern screens have a setting to remove ot mitigate it by shifting the pixels about a tad.

    Yes - the broadcasters could move the logo about the screen every 5mins but they never have....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Paul in NZ View Post
    Grey - white or seal liver puce it won't matter as you will get some screen burn with a plasma. Most modern screens have a setting to remove ot mitigate it by shifting the pixels about a tad.

    Yes - the broadcasters could move the logo about the screen every 5mins but they never have....
    Shows how much they care, doesn't it...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Maki View Post
    Shows how much they care, doesn't it...
    Either that or its injected by sky and prime can't change it or there is some technical issue?

    Best bet is for you is to clean your screen regularly anyway...

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    Sky doesn't care about you, they care about maintaining their monopoly and doing deals with telcos to make it harder for NZ'ers to access alternative content. Allegedly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Usarka View Post
    Sky doesn't care about you, they care about maintaining their monopoly and doing deals with telcos to make it harder for NZ'ers to access alternative content. Allegedly.
    Allegedly Allegedly.
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    they are not Olymipic rings, they are really eyes and they are watching you....they are....they can see you sitting there

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    Quote Originally Posted by nzspokes View Post
    Plasma is so last year.
    Yep plasma is the new Beta video tape.

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