2009 Mitsubishi Owners Thread (C9/737/837) - Page 253

Originally Posted by Pluvious

WHAT?.. I beg to differ. My plasma does not have black/shadows in the corners! Nor should any for that matter. I believe you are mistaken.

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It almost looks like a flashlights image with the ring in the middle

Originally Posted by Nofears

My wife and I were at a local Living Spaces furniture store yesterday which also has a Pauls TV operating within it. There we saw the 75" Laservue, the 82-837 and the 73-738 (yes, I said 738) side by side from left to right. We wanted to see the 82" of course and I asked the salesman for a remote. He gladly gave me one and I proceeded to check to see if the 82" was on brilliant or not. Apparently the 82-837 series does not have a brilliant mode??? Neither the salesman or I could find it. I was a little surprised as just the week before I adjusted an 82" set to brilliant at a Mathis Bros, but that set was the 82-737 series. I could swear that the 73-837 sitting next to the 82-737, at Mathis Bros, had a brilliant setting that we set it to...

Anyway, we checked the 73-738 model and it had brilliant, we set it to that and OMG that set looked unbelievably good...almost as good as the Laservue. The LV was extremely bright from all vertical and horizontal angles and its color was extremely rich, the 73-738 was very nice and bright in brilliant mode and the color was very nice too...I do have to say that the 73-738 looked much better than the 73-837 we saw last week. The 73-738 was sitting on top of a 3' tall stand so it was way above our seated eye level and it still didn't have any significant degredation to the picture. Unfortunately the 82-837 did have the "sweet spot" syndrome and was sitting way too high as compared to our seated eye level.

Of course, the 82" lacked the "pop" sitting in between these other two sets but it still had a good picture. If I could only have been able to get the 82" into brilliant mode I'm sure it would've looked much better.
- Do the xx-738 series models not offer a brilliant mode or were we missing something???

The salesman said that their store was the largest selling 82" Mitsu store in California and that he has never received any complaints from those who had bought the 82" set. He claimed many of the buyer's neighbors would soon come in and purchase an 82" set after seeing it in thier neighbor's home. I have to give the salesman credit as he was EXTREMELY knowledgable about all the sets and the features each series had, or didn't have...(Is it possible that he lurks in these forums too?)

Originally Posted by gtgray

The 82837 has Brilliant mode. I don't know what was going on with your set But if this salesman was really knowledgeable he would have known the 82837 had that feature. In my opinion Brilliant mode is as useless as teats on a boar hog but, but that is subjective. It is a wildly in accurate mode out of the box though.

Originally Posted by happy nightmares

Hey guys,

I've got 3,581 hours on my original lamp and still going fairly strong. I recently turned up the brightness a little bit since I could detect slightly less light output overall, but that's it. I suppose it might start going downhill faster now?

Since this TV runs almost all-day, every day, I knew I would burn thru my first bulb faster than most of you, but I'm totally satisfied with 3,581+.

Originally Posted by Nofears

My wife and I were at a local Living Spaces furniture store yesterday which also has a Pauls TV operating within it. There we saw the 75" Laservue, the 82-837 and the 73-738 (yes, I said 738) side by side from left to right. We wanted to see the 82" of course and I asked the salesman for a remote. He gladly gave me one and I proceeded to check to see if the 82" was on brilliant or not. Apparently the 82-837 series does not have a brilliant mode??? Neither the salesman or I could find it. I was a little surprised as just the week before I adjusted an 82" set to brilliant at a Mathis Bros, but that set was the 82-737 series. I could swear that the 73-837 sitting next to the 82-737, at Mathis Bros, had a brilliant setting that we set it to...

Anyway, we checked the 73-738 model and it had brilliant, we set it to that and OMG that set looked unbelievably good...almost as good as the Laservue. The LV was extremely bright from all vertical and horizontal angles and its color was extremely rich, the 73-738 was very nice and bright in brilliant mode and the color was very nice too...I do have to say that the 73-738 looked much better than the 73-837 we saw last week. The 73-738 was sitting on top of a 3' tall stand so it was way above our seated eye level and it still didn't have any significant degredation to the picture. Unfortunately the 82-837 did have the "sweet spot" syndrome and was sitting way too high as compared to our seated eye level.

Of course, the 82" lacked the "pop" sitting in between these other two sets but it still had a good picture. If I could only have been able to get the 82" into brilliant mode I'm sure it would've looked much better.
- Do the xx-738 series models not offer a brilliant mode or were we missing something???

The salesman said that their store was the largest selling 82" Mitsu store in California and that he has never received any complaints from those who had bought the 82" set. He claimed many of the buyer's neighbors would soon come in and purchase an 82" set after seeing it in thier neighbor's home. I have to give the salesman credit as he was EXTREMELY knowledgable about all the sets and the features each series had, or didn't have...(Is it possible that he lurks in these forums too?)

Originally Posted by cid67

I kindly ask everyone who has these sets to put a completely black image up on screen with the room dark and see if the can detect the uneven black level and report back.

I would like to see if I can figure out how wide spread this may be.

It is disconcerting that you are having this problem again, Blink325. I have a tech coming out to replace the light engine for exactly the same black level issues. This set is also a replacement for a wd-65835 that developed the same issue after just going out of warranty.

It's hard to believe that it is as wide spread as it seems to me in my experiences considering how picky some of you all are.

Originally Posted by cid67

I kindly ask everyone who has these sets to put a completely black image up on screen with the room dark and see if the can detect the uneven black level and report back.

I would like to see if I can figure out how wide spread this may be.

It is disconcerting that you are having this problem again, Blink325. I have a tech coming out to replace the light engine for exactly the same black level issues. This set is also a replacement for a wd-65835 that developed the same issue after just going out of warranty.

It's hard to believe that it is as wide spread as it seems to me in my experiences considering how picky some of you all are.

Originally Posted by Coolrey3

Hey guys i'm looking up and down this thread and can't pinpoint the geometry details for my dvi to hdmi pc connection. Like a lot of us I get overscan and haven't found a way to fix it. I also don't have the stock control and am not sure how to manually move the grid through the service menu (2-4-5-7) then 0. I notice the yellow cursor moving but from there I don't know what to do cause when I hit enter or ok the grid dissapears. Also does the service menu only consist of the initial horizontal and vertical settings or is there more settings to be toyed with? Aside from that all I've understood the service menu contains is the settings when you hit 0, Is this correct?

Originally Posted by jsrdlr

When viewing my PS3 I get white specks flickering all over the place. Same effect as the specks you see at a movie theater. I thought I read somewhere that this could be due to a bad cable but can't find it now. Ring a bell for anyone? It wasn't there until I switched resolution to 1080p. Looks pretty fantastic except for that.

TIA

Originally Posted by happy nightmares

Hey guys,

I've got 3,581 hours on my original lamp and still going fairly strong. I recently turned up the brightness a little bit since I could detect slightly less light output overall, but that's it. I suppose it might start going downhill faster now?

Since this TV runs almost all-day, every day, I knew I would burn thru my first bulb faster than most of you, but I'm totally satisfied with 3,581+.

Originally Posted by Buddyl33

Power off your TV, then when powering it on, hold in the power button for around 10 seconds or so. This should fix that. It's happened to me 2x now

Originally Posted by moejenn517

Hello everybody I'm new to this thread and I was wondering if my new Mitsubishi WD-65837 has any firmware updates that I need? The only problem I'm seeing so far on my set is the overscan. Just curious any advise!!!

Originally Posted by moejenn517

I have the TV set to standard for blu-ray player and cable!!! Is this right?

Originally Posted by jsrdlr

Should be. I think that's what mine is set to for my sat box.

Originally Posted by gtgray

Normally you adjust for overscan in the graphic driver control application. The TV is always going to overscan by design. To get the computer image to show fully on the screen means it has to be either scaled or it needs to be rendered using fewer pixels. What kind of graphics chip do you have?

Originally Posted by Pluvious

I wanted to ask if this is normal. When I power up the 65" (C9) The green 'status' light blinks like crazy and it takes a while for the picture to come on.. and when it does.. it's a blue welcome to Mitsubishi splash screen. Then it pops over to normal cable TV.. but very dark and washed out.. within 1-2 mins it clears up and looks fine. Is this normal 'warm up' time or is it behaving oddly??