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feds27 
It's noon here and I have huge windows in my apt so I have alot of ambient light. These are hand held shots but I think they give a good idea as to the preset color settings.
yeah as you evnetually concluded, after looking at the sandwhich pictures through your camera anyway i thought the cinema setting or the custom setting looked great. I usually actually like vivid settings but something seemed wrong with the vivid picture, it seemed like the brightness/color/contrast was "strange", and game mode just looked terrible.
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Originally Posted by
feds27
Thanks for the warning. I noticed right away it was set too bright and with too much saturation. I've been running it in Cinema mode since I unboxed it minus the few shots I took for comparison.
I ran AVIA earlier today using the Custom preset, however, I started with the same values as Cinema. I figured if I'm going to alter a setting it should be the Custom and, having liked the Cinema setting, I figured I'd start with those values. For some strange reason Custom is not equal to the other presets because the same settings for Cinema are brighter and with more blotchiness when run under the Custom preset. I read a few other threads where people reported this difference, so it seems like the norm. I may jot down the original Cinema settings and then run AVIA under the Cinema preset.
again, i think maybe Cinema was that setting that enables whatever 24p 2:2 whatnot perhaps? maybe that's the "secret sauce" that makes the setting look different.
btw, i know you were advised to lower your brightness, and you should, but the one thing i'd say make those shots look off from alot of the pics in the kuro pictures thread is that it does indeed seem less vibrant/bright, and since this display is of all things supposed to brighter you might want to kick it up a little possibly.....it could just be your photography gives a more subdued dimmer pictures ala exposure time though.
so, also, this user doesnt see any of those nasty phosphor trails? maybe the higher end versions have done whatever pioneer does to lessen them?
my last question is, people are now re-concluding that these rival last years pioneers at least (and they should mind you, it shouldnt take more than year for Panasonic to paly catch up in my opinion). But if that is true, does that mean Pioneer used whatever "special" tech to get their black levels to get that close? i mean, the Kuros were a big jump and pioneer used some special jargon to describe their 'technique", did Panasonic have to apply something like that to get these sets to come close?
HD cable box, and HDMI to a 60gb PS3.
