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ok guys, I have a quick question. I turned off the 4:3 conversion on my rear projector widescreen TV because it was annoying to switch back to 4:3 after watching HD channels. My question is....are the black bars I have now that much worse than the grey ones? The person at Circuit City said the grey bars help the screen from burning in, but for some strange reason, the picture quality is actually better for SD channels. I have a dilemma...either have better picture quality or risk having those black bars burn an image into my screen.
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Here's my thinking... Burn-in is the aging of the phophor coating on the screen. If the bars are black, those spaces are unused and NOT aging, meanwhile, the rest of the screen is aging. Thus, giving us a darker picture in the middle and a brighter picture at the edges as time goes on.
If we use the gray bars instead, we can attempt to make the entire screen age at roughly the same rate... minimizing the burn-in to a much higher degree.