Plasma TV + Direct sunlight

[limbo]

Anyone know if direct sunlight can damage the screen on a Plasma TV?

Fairly new acquisition sits in a sunny corner by day...

[Megaclinium]

I think burn-in is more of a problem for plasma.
when it sits on same screen, burns in like old CRTs.

UV can damage plastic. Takes a while, and plasma TVs I hear don't last more than 3 years or so.

(my old tube TV mitsubishi is from 1994, 14 years and still runnning or I'd go get a plasma)
glass will block some of it.

[swa66]

I presume there is regular glass between the sun and the TV ? That should filter away most of the damaging UV light. Regular glass is not transparent to UV light. (Try getting a tan behind glass)

Modern plasmas have far less ghosts from slight burn-in than those a few years older.
Even the ghosts on those older sets from e.g. watching snooker all night long go away after a day or two of playing other images (but again: modern plasmas do not have that problem anymore -or at least far less-)

half-life of plasma screens (time they are on before the intensity of the light they produce reduced to half the original intensity) of plasma screens differs a lot between manufacturers (just like any old CRT tube). I've not seen filtered sunlight being a factor in that life-time (but it might well be). Even then as long as it's all the screen all you need to do (just like with an old CRT) is to increase the brightness of the screen (there are limits of course).