Panasonic PZ80/PZ85 Owners Thread [No Price Talk] - Page 265

Thanks vega509!

I tried to break in by SD card method. I have the TX50PZ80U plasma. When I load the slide show I see to vertical solid bars by the side of the pictures. How to get rid of them?
I am using picture from my camera. Do I have to use any specific pictures for this?
TIA

If they are simply pictures you have taken they won't work, they need to be 16:9, 1080. Why not just download the break-in images.

On the other hand, if the images are correct, do you have your aspect ratio on the TV set correctly? It should be set to FULL.

Wow been reading through a ton of info here and must say it can be quite overwhelming. However I went ahead and pulled the trigger and ordered the Panasonic TH-50PZ85U last night.

It was a tough call between the Panasonic and the Samsung 50A550 but after plaing with the remotes and adjusting to the recomended settings of the two (from posts here) at my local BB I decided to just go with the Panasonic.

I personally couldn't see a huge differance between the two and I have owned Panasonic CRT TV's in the past that have done quite well and lasted.

Anyway enough babbling on my part. I just can't wait for it to arrive.

Congrats, you will be very happy with your new set.

i just thread this entire thread and it made my ass really wet.

i just bought one of these "pannys" as you call them and i almost 5hit my pants upon turning it on. great stuff!! great great stuff!

so you read the entire thread first then turned on the panny?

BB has the TH-42PZ85U on sale for $1099

I've been breaking in my 80U 50" with breakin DVD (~16 hours) but I have the settings on custom with picture at 0. Is that correct or should I put it on cinema with picture set to 0? Thanks

JB

started breaking in my 50pz80u yesterday.... everything looks to be in order

the poon looks fantastic

Why are people that run the break in DVD complaining about stuck pixels. We need a Poll maybe...

You ran the break in? You getting stuck pixels?
You did NOT run the break in routine. You getting stuck pixels?

I am one of those that, from day 1, simply set it to Cinema, Warm 60,52,41,-2,50 (Tom's settings from the Calibration thread) and rarely changed from those settings. I watched 4:3 TV in Zoom without bars on the sides, Played XBOX360 a little in Vivid mode, watched a ton of movies in the evenings mainly in Letterbox (bars above and below). I am at over 400 hours. Never did the break in here. Picture is outstanding. Not a single stuck or dead pixel apparent to my eye. I am NOT going to run a 100% white field test screen and go 12" away from the screen and look for them. If you cannot spot them during regular viewing than don't worry about it.

However. I still wonder... Stuck pixels and people that ran the break in DVD. Would be an interresting study. 100 hours of repetative pictures in slideshow mode. Hmmm.... Should not hurt anything but who knows.

C.

What are your settings? My whites are brilliant on this PZ85 42" fed by a panasonic BD30 and now BD35 Blueray player via HDMI.

My player is set 100% all default. No special modes enabled. Just NORMAL. Only change to the Player is audio setting set to bitstream but that has nothing to do with video. Even left HDMI res to AUTO. 24P to disabled. Just the factory default settings.

TV is set thusly...

WATCHING DVD OR BLUERAY...

Ditrect to TV via HDMI. Ain't nothing touching this signal before the TV gets it!

Lights out! Mostly anyway. No reflections allowed! And everyone shut up!

HDMI 1 = Cinema. Warm Temp as it is the default.
60 Picture (up to 80 seems to make little difference)
52 Brightness (up to 56 is fine. The default 58 gave me greyness in blacks)
41 Color (Toms setting and oddly Panasonics defaul setting out of the box for Cinema)
0 Tint (been going from -6 to -2 to 0 and back. Sticking with 0 for now)
50 Sharp (really does not matter from HDMI I find)

WATCHING CRAPOLA DIGITAL (NON HD) SIGNAL OFF COAX...

TV = STANDARD (slightly higher gamma as we have the lights on)
Temp = NORMAL (Default of STANDARD mode)
60 Pic
52 Brightness
50 to 55 Color or thereabouts
0 Tint
Sharp 75 (this was the default and I have left it there)

This mode works for TV as it makes it look like the old 27" CRT upstairs basically and when watching the TV, many of the lights are on in the room. Hard to full calibrate a crap source like TV from COAX as each channel likes slightly different settings so I gave up and made one "close enough" setting to mostly saticfy them all.

If you are still getting greyness with these kinds of settings. Hmmm... Wierd.

C.

i think the real question is who sees them only when the break-in images are being displayed vs. regular viewing. i ran the break-in dvd but i did not sit there and scrutinize every inch of the display. maybe i have some stuck or dead pixels but i never notice during regular viewing.

any word?

So I do have a question for all you current owners. Is it best to go with a DVI to HDMI cable for the 85U. I have a old PC I turned into a DVR and will be wanting to hook it up to the Panny for use as well as some occasional online TV missed episodes as well as light gaming once in a while.

yes, you won't get full resolution from VGA.

i read somewhere (probably here) that the 85u had blurry text with the wii, and also with other sources, how true is this?

I think this is exactly the case. I did not run the break in DVD and I have not noticed any dead/stuck pixels. If I have dead or stuck pixels I don't want to know about them because I can't notice them during normal viewing. Ignorance is bliss.

If I had run a break in disk on mine I would have purposefully avoided watching it so I did not see any, now if I saw some during normal viewing then that would be a problem.

Yup, if I could notice them during regular viewing then I would be pissed.

I just got my 50PZ80U a few days ago, and have been running the break in DVD between normal viewing in zoom mode, and have not seen any stuck pixels yet. I have around 50 hours on the set and have looked at the display pretty closely during the DVD.

For noodles3
Sounds good to me, all depends on your video card setting.

I'm with you why bother with the break in DVD, Just rerun a movie in Zoom mode.

I just snagged a TH42PZ80U and I was wondering if it is safe to run the burn in 24 hours a day till its done. Is it better if I run it for 12 hours or so and turn it off for the night?

I also just purchased the TH42PZ80U, I am running the CD card to burn in 24/7 for 100 hours. I did notice one stuck pixel initially on white and green screen. Then after about 2 hours of running the burn, two more stuck pixels showed up, this time I notice the new ones under the blue screen. You only see them if you up close. When your say 7 feet away you can't see them. The internet store has a policy of 8 stuck pixels in order to return.

My question is: Do these go away after the burn in, or do I just have to live with the 3 stuck/dead pixels?

BTW. This thread is full of good info. THANKS

^Yeah, the best thing is NOT to look for dead/stuck pixels but it kinda draws you in, especially if you're running a burn-in dvd.

I think any more then three stuck pixels should be returned or exchanged. To each his own though.

So... who's using expensive component and HDMI cables, and who's using cheapo (under $20) cables? And the question is, is there any major difference between expensive and cheap? I heard the expensive ones are marked up greatly, but no different from the cheaps. I paid about $8 for my HDMI and $20 for my component.

Just got some HDMI cables from Monoprice. Paying a premium price for cables is like throwing $20 bills into a wishing well.


By the way, my 46 inch PZ85 is set to ship to me on Friday. I can't wait. Hope everything goes smooothly. I'm pretty much all ready to run the break in images right when i get the tv before the shipping guys leave. Is this necessary?

$6 HDMI cable here baby.

I left mine on Discover HD and took a week to breakin the 100 hours because I did not leave it on all of the time. I do not think it would matter as long as you lowered the brightness and contrast levels to 50 or below and keep the screen images changing on full size screen.