Official Panasonic TC-PxxVT20/25 Owners Thread NO PRICE TALK!! - Page 255

I would get an xbox360 and Kinect. No controllers to break the TV with

Anyone try and watch any of the 3D videos on YouTube through VieraCast on my tcp58VT25? Turned 3D on and then logged into my YouTube account and when the videos came up they would not work with my glasses. What's up?

Thanks for your answers to my questions. I am enjoying my TV very much ...I think it is the BEST TV one can buy today. Regarding the Futureshop / Bestbuy calibrators, I am a bit skeptical as you never know who will show up at your door and how qualified they are...you don't think that the Futureshop guy telling you that using settings in this forum will "damage" the TV as a way of selling his stores services...anywya the bottom line for you is that you are happy with the end result.

When I connect different devices to a one hdmi port, I can always use different picture modes to compensate for their differences...no? Any changes made to the service menu will apply to the whole TV.

Are you from Toronto? I am in Vancouver...are you a Leaf fan......if you are I won't hold it against you...I am a HABS FAN.

I asked about connecting a hard drive via USB to my vt25 so it can be used as a PVR... a couple of people responded and did not think it could work.

Just to show I am not out to lunch / coming up with things out of the blue; this is a review where I read it:

http://www.flatpanelshd.com/review.p...&id=1274347515

They show how to record to a hard drive and a TV guide etc.....again not sure if this is a feature not available in North America.

I tried to hook it up myself, but it did not work. I would be interested to know others thoughts / experiences.

regarding break in, Before my TV was delivered, I called both Panasonic USA and Canada. The Americans told me to do a break in which involved watching full screen TV for 100 hours in THX mode with brightness at 50% or so. Panasonic Canada said because of the advances in their technology that no break break-in is required at all...THEY ARE THE EXACT SAME PRODUCT. I read about the break in slides in the link provided to you. To be safe I used a combination of the 2 procedures for the 1st 100-150 hrs. There it is recommended to run the slides for 100 hrs straight.... I could not convince my wife to do that so I ran them at night and when we were out. I also sort of did not want to do that my self as I would have missed watching the beginning of hockey season.

Anyway I guess it is a personal preference, but I am planing on keeping this TV for a long time and want to get the most of this amazing TV. I am know trying to figure out the best way to calibrate the picture.

If you're asking me, I have no idea. Like I said, I don't have the USB wireless adapter and I don't have much desire to do the streaming you mention anyway. Sorry I'm not much help on this.

Is that in Canadian dollars? hope so as that price is ridiculously high !!

where have you seen the 65" VT25 for less then $3500

It took seven deliveries and 7.5 hours on the phone with DTV before my 3D capable HR2X arrived as my HR20 replacement. "Frustrating" is an understatement, but I tried to remain calm through-out the process so I could "help" DTV fix the glitch in their system. Thank you Tums & Prilosec for helping me through it all.

I'm streaming 3D MKVs stored on my ReadyNAS and streaming through my Netgear 9150 to my VT25 with no problem. The only thing I've seen is that the 'auto' setting on the TV to detect the 3D recording mode (side by side or vertical) does not auto detect. However, if I switch it to side by side (or however the movie was recorded) it works perfectly.

I recently contacted D-TV to do a full infrastructure upgrade of their equipment. I had HR21-700 / 100 boxes and asked for the 24 series. I was told what everyone else is told. They can't guarantee it. However, after a few nice requests and no demands from me, they agreed to mark a preferred request on the work order. When the installer showed up, he had 2 - 24 series boxes for me. He said they are in short supply and they tend to hold them for NEW customers as opposed to existing replacements.

As I say many times in these forums, you often can get what you are looking for if you consider your approach, how you ask and how you interact with the CSRs.

Is it normal for these tvs to have like 25 hours on them (as listed in the service menu), from a factory-sealed box?

I'm pretty sure mine had zero hours. I didn't check it on delivery, or even the first week. But when I finally got around to it, it had 30 hours, and that is about what I estimated it should have had at that point.

I paid about a grand less at HHGREG !! That was not their advertised price but with a little research and homework on this site it wasn't a big deal getting the deal !!

How do you check the hours on a VT25 plasma?

So after only two weeks of trying out my new 65" vt25, I finally called best buy's geek squad to tell them to come out and check out my tv because I'm unhappy with it. Noticed since day one that when bright screens are displayed I can hear the thing buzzing from 12 feet away while sitting in my recliner as long as my surround sound volume is at moderate to low levels. I had read that they can buzz but should only be heard when your head is behind the tv which is okay but this is very loud and very frustrating.

Also, it seems that the picture isn't very smooth during fast motion scenes. I had my wife sit down with me and I showed her some different scenes randomly and asked her to see if she saw anything wrong. She pointed out the buzzing (before I even told her it had a buzzing issue) and she pointed out that while watching football and watching Iron Man 2 on bluray that during fast scenes it didn't look very smooth and was kind of blurry/shaky/jerky...

The lady from geek squad said that if something is found to be wrong then they can order replacement parts and so I told her she will be ordering a new tv instead because I will be returning this one since I am within the 30 days.

I'll give this tv one more shot and then I guess I will figure out my options as far as other tvs and such... I'm very disappointed that I have to do this because the picture is absolutely AMAZING but only when things are very still on the screen.

And by the way, the tv was broken in with slides for 110 hours and then calibrated as per D-Nice's settings so everything was done exactly as recommended.

Signed,
An Unhappy Customer

What typo?

Does anyone know where to get the firmware upgrade files for a Canadian TC-P58VT25? I intsalled the USA Version 3.00 (file: SDDL.SEC) on my TV and now the Viera Cast Function does not work! Am also looking to get the DY-WL10K adapter; would that solve my problem? Also, does anyone know the diference between the DY-WL10K and just the DY-WL10.....is there a difference?

You think the color banding issue what I'm seeing on a S2? In certain shades of gray, I see almost a rainbow effect. It's not glaring, and hard to see unless I look for it, as well as only being in a small portion of the area. It goes away when I pause, and Ive seen it on Directv and TiVo OTA. Not seen it on BR.

my 54VT25 is doing the same on my ps3, but direct tv, xbox 360 all look great the rainbow effect mainly happens when ps3 first turns on and when you switch to downloaded movie or tv show, or when the screen goes black right before it switches to the tv show that I have downloaded. I wonder if this has anything to do with the 24p mode, which cnet said in their review 24p mode shows some artifacting.

He's referring to a typo that resulted in your vt25 price.

how do you access the service menu on the VT25s? I've searched everywhere and can't find the "codes". Thanks.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...u#post19042034

Thanks. Guess I should have searched "how to check hours used"

Any tips on getting the vt25 online through a hardline connection? I am stuck on the last step during the connection test. Panasonic had me call Netgear to open ports 80,443, and 48705. I called them and we supposedly opened those up but I'm still getting the error. Haven't called Panny back yet - am I missing something easy here?

From what I understand the Manager explained to me that the other store had that sale price as a ploy to get folks into the newly opened store. So I don't understand where the typo came in? I had called the York store and they confirmed the price and then I went to my local store who confirmed that price too. They gave me that price and then also did the same for the Bluray player and the 3d essentials package.

Bottom line is I did get a great deal on all three items.

(Almost as good as the one I just got for the new Denon AVR-4311CI)

Have you applied the latest firmware upgrade?

I had a similar issue. The VT25 would see the wireless dongle and complete the connection test OK but would fail to connect when I selected Viera cast. Panny 2nd level support had me reset the TV twice and I finally got a connection.