Do consoles damage plasma televisions? Our plasma television has been acting up recently and it's fairly knew. My mother thinks its because I used it for a monitor for a while and I game sometimes. She makes the connection between pc games and console games damaging it since I was going to attach my Xbox 360 to it The image isn't burnt into the screen or anything. I am doubting this but I would like to know for sure.
Bright flashes can occasionally cause some minor burn-in on plasma screens, but if you don't see any, it's probably something failing inside the monitor.
When I got my PS3, I had it plugged into my parents' 42" Plasma and played MGS4 for 6 hour sessions over 4 nights, and it still works fine.
Define [I]acting up[/I].
Getting that weird thing that everyone calls a snowstorm. Like it's turned on a channel I don't have.
Your plasma's fucked.
Make sure any cables are firmly connected. On both ends. Not just to your TV.
I did that, I think it's unlikely the gaming wrecked it because the image would be burnt into it not the snowstorm.
Burn-in isn't as much of an issue as was back in the projection TV days, but even so it wouldn't cause the problems you described.
Is the image snowy all of the time, or just when watching cable/satellite?
Snowy screen is more then likely a problem with your cable/satellite. I'm thinking it's probably a connection some where that is not very tight or something and is causing it.
Are you using HDMI to plug it in to your TV or just a standard COAX cable?
The only thing gaming does to a plasma is produce a burn-in, and you said that's not it, so, could you tell us what's going on that's acting so strange?
This happened when i plugged my ps3 to my 42" downstairs using a HDMI cable.
Just fiddle around with it for a little and it should be fine.
If you don't have a HDMI cable check any other cables plugged into Video/whatever that might be interfering.
Ah, snowstorm. That's not at all related to gaming. That doesn't happen with HDMI connections, but what input does this occur with?
It's possible that, if you're getting cable in via coaxial, you have it one channel off, and not the regular channel (IE it's supposed to be on 3 but it's on 4 or vice versa)
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If the cable goes in via component (also known as RGB), then the connections could be loose, so unplug them and reconnect them. Do the same if you're using S-Video or Composite (which you really shouldn't be using, but if you are). This doesn't generally happen with digital connections (HDMI/DVI), with digital it's either working or it isn't.
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