The Official Samsung PNxxC6500, PNxxC7000, and PNxxC8000 Settings Thread - Page 9

Originally Posted by bobby james

I was wondering this as well. I just got mine yesterday. I put it on movie mode, turned contrast down to 70, brightness down to 50, sharpness at 0, and cell light at 14. I also turned MJC off. Are there any other settings I should change while I'm breaking it in? Should pixel shift be on or off?

Originally Posted by bobby james

No, they don't seem to be in the menu when playing a slideshow

Originally Posted by audionnl

Just wondering, do you have the pixel shift options when running break in slides? because i changed those settings in regular tv mode, however when running break in slides with the build in media player i do get alot of options except for pixel shift

Originally Posted by justinclarke83

Could mantis settings if done before break in period cause the tv to buzz or cause any other harmful things to the tv. (PN58C8000)?

Originally Posted by dandaroy

Anybody notice line bleed on the c8000s??

Originally Posted by powermonkey24

no line bleed here on my 63c8000...looks amazing even better then my pn63b590.. and it isnt even broken in yet!

As far as settings go I tried out mantis's settings and although they looked great, I ended up going with cnets settings for the c590 they just reviewed..left the 10 point off for now..atleast untill they do a review on the 8000's. this tv is great..mdj on a plasma! my dream come true..

Originally Posted by dandaroy

Actually I did see some line bleed on the 63c8000 at the store today. Black text on a yellow background. However it was not as bad as the Panny vt25

Originally Posted by dandaroy

Anybody notice line bleed on the c8000s??

Originally Posted by ryantiguan

You don't find that having motion judder set to standard actually causes some blur / pixelation on standard HD programming? I found that it worked great on avatar, but not good on chronicles of narnia blu ray or regular HD programming?

Originally Posted by powermonkey24

well..none on mine..forget my last post for setting just used mantis's settings for custom color space and 10 point on CAL-NIGHT, along with cnets pnc590 settings..looks even better! looks like this..

mode: cal-night
cell light: 17
contrast: 90
brightness: 57
shrapness: 10
color: 51
tint: g51/r49

color temp: warm 1
gamma: +1

mantis white balance
mantis 10 point
mantis custom color space
screen fit
hdmi black level: low
all noise reduction off
mdj-standard..i like soap opera effect..i know most dont, but it is so much easier on my eyes and for me I get an almost 3d effect with real 3d

havent tried 3d yet.. need the glasses

Originally Posted by Domcorleone

does anyone find the silver bezel of the c8000 to be distracting while watching movies? I am leaning to the c7000 simply because of the bezel blending in with the background and letterbox, but im hearing the 8000 has better blacks...

Originally Posted by powermonkey24

The c7000 and c8000 plasmas have the same bezel its like a charcoal gray with a slight glass edge to it, I think you are thinking of the led 3d tvs by samsung..I think the 8000 and 9000 models have silver bezels

Originally Posted by mantisboxer

First, I need to give credit to christberg as they were the first to discover this issue in the last firmware revision. I was not able to duplicate it at the time, but I think I found it.

Here is a description of the issue. When I first turn on my set, black levels are nearly triple normal (0.058 ftL vs. 0.020 ftL). What I am seeing is not the "full screen IR" that has been described by others on Samsung sets. I stumbled into this because my initial readings for black level were just terrible after the set had just been turned on (in Cal-Night). I thought there was something wrong with my settings, so I changed the set to Movie mode and noticed that the screen immediately go tremendously darker. Measured MLL at the expected 0.020 ftL and switched back to Cal-Night. This time the screen stayed dark and measured MLL at 0.020 again.

Intrigued, I just tried switching between all the modes while just visually examining the screen. Every 2 or 3 cycles through all the modes, my Cal-Night 0 IRE window would get much brighter (accompanied by greenish pixel noise)!! Cycling between Movie and and Cal-Night would generally fix the problem, but not always. Sometimes I would have to turn the panel off, turn it back on, and cycle. This would always fix it. I also confirmed christberg's observation that toggling the dynamic contrast setting could also make the problem go away.

On Cal-Day (basically same as Cal-Night, with Cell Light at 17) I could not get rid of the green pixel noise unless I put Gamma from +1 back to 0. Of course this screwed the picture up, so right now, I don't have a valid Cal-Day setting!!

When this problem happens, blacks are truly gray looking. Fortunately, you can work around this, it appears, by simply switching back and forth between modes. The issue will go away until you power cycle the panel. I would appreciate it if others could try to confirm this phenomenon. You may not notice it when you turn your panel on for the first time, but the difference in blacks after switching modes is dramatic. If there are enough observations, I say we bombard Samsung with complaints.

I think the big questions is, WTF?!? I am beginning to think that the anecdotal observations of sub par black levels may be related to what I am describing here. I think this is clearly an issue with the software and would not be surprised if further improvements to black levels are on the way.

Originally Posted by mantisboxer

Numbers in Black are for Firmware versions 1017 and older
UPDATED FOR FIRMWARE 1019

If you have a 7000 and have not changed your set to PNXXC8000 in the service menu, you may input these settings under Movie mode.

NIGHT

Light output for Cal-Night = 27.7 ftL / 32.63 ftL
Black Level = 0.027 ftL / 0.020 ftL

Basic Parameters:
Cell Light = 14
Contrast = 80 / 85
Brightness = 53 / 57
Color = 50 / 49
Tint = G50/R50
Gamma = +1 (This is probably the most important change to make)

White Balance:
R Gain = 20 / 25
G Gain = 25
B Gain = 35 / 38
R Offset = 25
G Offset = 25
B Offset = 26

10 Point White Balance:
Interval: R G B
1: 2 0 -3 / 4 0 -1
2: 0 0 -1 / 1 0 -1
3: -1 0 1 / 1 0 0
4: -2 0 0 / 0 0 -1
5: -2 0 3 / 0 0 -1
6: -4 0 1 / 2 0 -1
7: -5 0 2 / 0 0 1
8: -2 0 4 / 2 0 3
9: -6 0 0 / 0 0 0
10: 0 0 -1 / 6 0 7

Custom Color Space:
R 44 0 3 / 50 0 6
G 21 25 5 / 19 29 5
B 0 0 67 / 0 0 76
Y 90 50 14 / 57 39 14
C 40 25 60 / 35 19 50
M 37 0 58 / 40 0 73

Originally Posted by Domcorleone

does anyone find the silver bezel of the c8000 to be distracting while watching movies? I am leaning to the c7000 simply because of the bezel blending in with the background and letterbox, but im hearing the 8000 has better blacks...