The Official LG xxPK550 Owner's Discussion Thread [no price talk] - Page 10

I'm in the same boat, but I have a 860.

Thanks for the input. I wonder why the game mode doesn't function as it's supposed to. I also wonder if the PK950 will have the same input lag time as the PK550.

Regarding Demon's Souls, I wonder if it's because you are too busy dodging tough as nails enemies rather than focus on lag time

off topic: Good to see a well rounded person who is into tech, gaming etc and hase a social life (esp, gf).

well, i got my pk550 on tuesday. So far so good. The thing is sexy. I love it. For blu ray movies on my ps3, i use cinema mode (obviously recalibrated) to my liking. Its gorgeous. My brother right away noticed how smooth the movement was. For my xbox games, im playing mass effect 2 and im using game mode (recalibrated of course) and its way more rich and vibrant then my lcd was. After each session and from time to time, ill do a "color wash" this gets rid of any IR in seconds. So far, i have no IR issues. I just am mindful of what i do. Mass effect is great for a break in, becuz it has no real hud. And if something is on the screen for a while, i just do a "color wash" after a while and leave it on "orbiter".
Just an fyi, ill leave color wash on while im gone and it will automatically shut it self off after a couple of hours or so. Which is good. Its a good break it, because it uses scrolling colored cubes/squares. Likea checkerboard. And slowly moves across the screen. Im feeling more and more confident in not having any image burn by doing these simple procedures. It's become natural for me now.

I dont notice any lag in movies or my games. It all looks crisp and clear.Love it!
I recommend the pk550.

^^^^That is great news. I am patiently waiting for mine to ship. Ordered it Tues. night and I still think its sitting in California. Scheduled arival date is 4/1.

I waited nearly 2 weeks for mine. I was really nervous with reading all these things about plasma. But after using it and watching things and just being mindeful. I feel very confident and comfortable.

Just to be more detailed on the gaming(same goes for movies with bars). If you play a game that has a HUD on for a while, just pause the game and go to settings in the menu and change it to "color wash" for about 10-15 seconds. Hit the enter button/menu/exit on ur remote and change it back to ORBITER, never lave it to normal. Idk what will happen, but Orbiter allows the pixels to be shifted so slightly you hardly notice it. This keeps things dynamic. Now go back to your game and play. At the end of the day, after each watching session, ill do a "color wash" for about a min or 2, and then change it back to Orbiter and then turn the tv off. Sounds all complicated or long, but it's not.

Once you get the tv, you'll get used to it, like any other electronic thing and If your like me, you'll catch on quickly.

The only time i had a slight IR was like the menu on the xbox or ps3 when i left it on there a bit too long. I was messing with the calibration. But dont freak. Just do color wash, and you'll see the IR melt away. Really makes you feel relieved and happy.


Hope this helps.

Most of the causes of Input Lag is done by your Monitor or TV doing Extra Processing to the image. In the AVForums review of the PK950 they stated that the set was doing extra sharpening/video processing but if they labeled the Input as "PC" the sharpening/video processing went away. So the million dollar question is can Shaddix rename one of his HDMI inputs to PC and then do another side by side input lag test with his CRT to see if it drops the Input Lag from ~80-90 down to the ~40's ?

picture set to expert1, hdmi1 set to PC 1080p/60hz





oh well.

I sent them an email asking if there's some option in the menu somewhere to speed it up or if a firmware update would be able to do anything about it. Last time I emailed them I got a very thorough response from the "email administrator" to my question so hopefully I'll get the same guy.

Perhaps they're all in cahoots with panasonic to get us to buy a 65" V series ._.;;;
got to go to class now i'll bbl

Hey Shaddix, thanks for the measures. Assuming you haven't already, can you see if you get faster results turning off Windows Aero and possibly some options in your GPU's config if you have a dedicated card? These settings were affecting my numbers pretty severely. I put a check list in the OP here.

What's really weird is that using the hdmi port, there's much more lag than if I use vga. Vga has about half the input lag of the hdmi. This is just using a dvi>vga adapter for the ~46ms. Using dvi>hdmi cable on the same computer(same port even) bumps the latency up into the 80ms range.

I'm still in class atm.. Ill test again when I get home if noone is on the ps3

Dude, how come the plasma screen shows a LOWER value on the timer? Isn't it supposed to be higher if there is input lag?

it's counting up lol

Oh, yeah. Haha. Brain fart. (I've been at work for 13 hours )

That's likely because the TV recognizes the VGA input as a PC input and subsequently turns off some of the internal processing. Go into your menu on the VGA input and see if any of the options are grayed out or not adjustable.

Thanks shaddix for all the videos and everyone else for the info. I think that might be a bit too glossy for me (plus there's no 46"?!?), but we'll see.

Here are some shots of the dark scenes in Cinema mode
Brightness: 36
Contrast: 50

Do you guys see similar results? The blacks are really glowing and I had hoped
that there supposed to be better results coming from an LCD.
Also you can see some IR on the second shot (the spots).
Based on the Chad's review the MLL of this TV is 0.012 FL.
Is it what that number supposed to look like? It looks pretty bad for me.

Chad, can you please comment on that? Am I expecting too much?

Love the set, but im getting a flicker in a few scenes on planet earth. the flicker is like faint snow, anyone else have this problem? Its not often and so far have only noticed it with a few scenes of planet earth on Blu ray. First plasma and i do not know if this is normal or not. LOVE the set besides that the picture is amazing

Unfortunately, I can't tell much from screenshots. Your camera and my monitor would both have to be perfectly calibrated.

.012 will glow in a dark room; it's a respectable number for a plasma, but it is higher than the Panny G25. When I had them both sitting side by side in the dark the G25 was slightly darker and the PK550 had a slightly greenish cast to it's black glow as I said in the review. But the difference between them wasn't night and day, it was merely noticeable.

This may sound silly, but I try not to read reviews of sets that I'm possibly going to review soon. I just don't want to get preconceived ideas.

Thanks Chad. I understand your point about the shots.
I know now that I should expect it to glow for some degree.
The question is: at what degree?
I can definitely see black bars glowing when watching 2.35:1 content in the dark.

Black bars will glow slightly with most TV's. The only TV's that might have indistinguishable bars in a dark room, are the 9G Kuro Elite, B8500, XBR8 and LHX. All of these are at or near the top in regards to black levels. Considering the price, you can't really expect the best black level performance. The BK550 seems to have very solid overall performance for the price, though.

Hi Chad, I Have a question about Black Levels and Contrast Ratio:

Which is the right Black Level for dummies (like me )?

I explain: Contrast ratio and minimum black level are very potent marketing drivers, so every single company give us (the dummies consumers) unusefull information like dynamic contrast ratio or Native contrast ratio and other stuff like this.

Same for black levels in the internet or in the magazines reviews.

So in the real world is the Black levels mesured on an ANSI pattern and the ANSI contrast ratio (togheter)a good information for dummies to evaluate the tv regard real black levels and the maximum white levels in the every day use?


Paolo Rebuffo


p.s. sorry for my horrible english I'm only a DummY Italian consumer.

Not silly at all!

I'll be waiting for your review of the 950! Any idea when it would be in at CP?




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I wonder if there are any differences between the european 990 and the North American 950. on LG Europes page it says the contrast ratio is 3,000,00:1

the 950 in NA says it has 5,000,000:1. but could just be mistakes on their website.

Hey BORCTH thanks for the great review. Can you share some of your TV settings so that I can try them out when I get mine? thanks.

Are the 60pk550 for sale? I have only seen people in this forum talk about the 50.

I have one on order from Amazon. Supposed to be here 4/1.

I have only seen it at amazon. I didn't know if retailers were going to get it like sears.

Re power savings feature on PK550...
Does anybody use it? It dims picture noticeably depending on the ambient light.
I wonder if the TV should be calibrated with the power saving turned off.

Definitely leave that power saving stuff turned off

@h77nate77 what scene in planet earth? I will look and see if mine does it when I get home tonight

What a great review man, glad you love it and enjoy it. Do you play FPS games as well? I got the cash to pick up a 60PK550 I just can't decide if I should wait for the 750 or 950. Either way I'm sure I will be happy. Btw what is your thoughts on the glare?