I will say one thing about all this though. The LCD camp has very succesfully put fear into a lot of people minds about IR and burn in, yet the same people fail to notice this same issue in the CRT era.... This is the key selling point of the LCD, but the other disadvantages of LCD are never mentioned.
All technologies have their drawbacks. There are viewing angles, IR, ghosting, clouding, screen uniformity issues, inaccurate colour gamut, bad black levels, SDE and many more. There is no perfect display technology yet.
Trust me, if u go look at ur CRT carefully, in its infancy of the tube life has the same problem. Just check out the older bank teller machines.
This is not a case of burn in. The phophors have uneven wear. If its permanent burn in, u will see it on all content. This is only viewable on dark environment as such, because the channel logos are bright, that area has worn more. As content is varied, it will diminish. As long as you vary your content, burn in is very unlikely. Again, this is in the infancy of the panel. Phopshors take time to mature.
The panels becomes more resilient with time. Different panels are different.
BTW, has anyone ever seen burn in on a LCD panel before....I have. So it can happen. Do a google search and u will see.
Totally agree with the LCD propaganda! Had a Sammy LCD before. After comparing it side by side with a PDP, couldn't stand the blurring anymore. Sold it off since. Even in today's latest 200Mhz, it is still evident albeit a faux smoothness to it that is passionately referred to as the 'Soap Opera Effect' by filling in additional frames to reduce blurriness. That outcome is big budget movies turns out like B movie production.