Posts by vanillacoffee

Quote:Originally Posted by steve1022 Just curious if you do any gaming on the 6500 and if so how does it do? I am debating what tv to get and I have been leaning towards the panasonic gt50 because of the THX bright mode as I will...

Quote:Originally Posted by Dr.Shankenstein Yeah I have reached day 4 of the slides at 24hrs a day, checked the hours last night and had reached 72 hrs. Left my screen on the XMB (cross media bar) on the PS3 for about 60 seconds only...

Quote:Originally Posted by Joxer The only time I can only notice any slight IR on my ST50 (about 10 days old now) is on the darkest gray slides, not with regular video content. And the only IR I have seen is from the bright white...

Quote:Originally Posted by oztech I got the 55ST50 and have no regrets I bought it for screen size,picture quality and price and as for IR so far so good but I don't set my picture for torch mode and used the Spears & Munsil Blue...

Quote:Originally Posted by Heartquake Hi, on another forum, somebody said that slides and scrolling bar are pretty useless for stubborn IRs on 2012 Pana's but analog static noise on Dynamic Mode make them go away in about 10 mins....

Quote:Originally Posted by letsgetsilly I can't believe that this is a legitimate issue with a brand new television, and I can't be the only one. Deal breaker for anyone else? Frankly, I am about ready to return my ST50 to Amazon...

Quote:Originally Posted by sonyfan The 2012 Samsung image/signal processing is vastly better than the current Panasonics. Just a guess but it probably limits IR to the point where it's not an issue. How carefully the break-in was...

Listen to this person! I could hardly agree more. I now have a replacement ST50. I ran break-in slides for 110 hours before normal use. It still definitely has IR. For example, last night, I watched a baseball game and there was IR...

Quote:Originally Posted by kehakas Just out of curiosity, how do so many people on forums know how many hours they've put on their TVs? Does plasma software keep track of that so that you can always find out? I'm not aware of such a...

Quote:Originally Posted by QuiGonJosh 60 hours isn't very much over the course of a TV's life. You're probably going to have to get another 100 hours before it goes away. Early in a panel's life, nasty IR takes awhile to go away....