Official LG 47LW5600/55LW5600 "Passive 3D" Owners Thread - Page 251

I used to have my center channel speaker on top of my DLP rear projector, but that obviously wasn't going to work with a TV that's half an inch thick, so inspired by previous postings, I took a trip to Lowes and picked up some shelf hardware.

I hacksawed a shelf support standard in half and cleaned up the cut ends, then carefully drilled 1/4" holes to match the 15-3/4" spacing of the rear screw positions of the TV while placing the top slots of the standard halves at exactly the height I wanted.

I didn't want a long bolt in single-shear so I had to mount the standards "backwards" on the TV, and insert the brackets backwards to suspend the shelf slightly above and mostly behind the TV.
To get the front of the shelf as flush with the top front of the TV as possible, I (clumsily at first) routed out channels to recess it over the tops of the standards.

Unfortunately the screws that come shipped in the back of the TV only engage about 3 threads once they go through the shelf standards, so I'm not going to put the weight of the center channel on it until I can replace them with new screws that have a little more thread.

I'm not completely happy with how wobbily the plastic factory stand is, so I might end up replacing the whole thing with a steel stand, but I'll see how it is with the center channel on there. So far I'm only out about $20 since I already had a metal saw, dremel, drill, etc.

Enjoy...

I noticed this when playing Batman: Arkham City in 3D. What I discovered is that when switching to 3D mode, the TV also switches it's AV selection. So for example if you watch 2D using one of the THX modes (if you enabled them) or the CNet settings, and then switch to 3D the TV defaults to Standard which is MUCH brighter. After I switched to the THX 3D mode I was much more comfortable.

Hi all,

a Humble request?

I own the lw5700(assuming i can use the lw5600 settings right?) and I dont want to activate the service menu, so if someone is really kind to give me the exact picture settings for THX brightroom, THX 3D(really having a hard time finding good calibration for 3D Viewing/Mode) and other picture settings that are enabled thru service menu? it will be well appreciated!

Thanks in advance

Search this thread for THX bright room settings

I figured I would throw these up here now. I am going a bit against the consensus here with my settings, but thought it might give a bit of a different look for someone to play with. I only have had plasmas in the past, so my settings are only what I like compared to my plasma. My plasma was Pro calibrated, so I do like the darker look more than a bright over the top look to my set. You may hate them, but it is just another set of things to play with for everyone.

Settings are for TV with HDMI and Directv.

Picture menu:
Aspect ratio: Just Scan
Energy Saving: Off
Picture Mode: Expert 1
Backlight: 44
Contrast: 88
Brightness: 52
H Sharpness: 50
V Sharpness: 50
Color: 51 (( Blu-Ray from PS3 gives 55 ))
Tint: 0 (( Blu-Ray from PS3 gives G3 ))
TruMotion: Off
LED Local Dimming: High

--Expert control menu
Dynamic contrast: Off
Noise reduction: Off ( I use LOW for Streaming Netflix and such )
MPEG Noise Reduction: Off ( I use LOW for Streaming Netflix and such )
Super Resolution: Off
Black level: Low
Real Cinema: On
Color Gamut: Standard (Could not get BT709 to give nice colors on test patterns )
Edge Enhancer: Off ( I use LOW for Streaming Netflix and such, can't see a lot of difference either way on Low. )
Color Filter: Off
Color Temperature: Warm
Gamma: 2.4

As you can see, the bit of difference is mainly the Gamma of 2.4. It is more than anything a way to get a deep depth feel over the 1.9 and 2.2. I have not used anything more than the AVS HD disk for these. I have no equipment to go off of, so take it with a grain of salt if you want to see another setting for the TV. I am one who usually tries anything someone puts up just to look at it.. No hard feelings if you try them and hate them. I have been on these now for about 2 weeks and found I have a hard time going back to 2.2 Gamma because I see less depth.

There is obviously a lot that could still be done in the 2point and 10 point settings, but without a meter I decided to leave as is for the time being. The grayscale is good looking to me, so anything I would do at this point would probably have adverse effects anyways..

So my tv now auto detects when I turn on another device and a prompt asks if I want to switch to that device. I didn't even update the firmware.... Kinda nice though

Mine used to do that and then stopped. I don't know why it quit doing it, but I want it back.

I have the 47LW5600 and the Panny 310 Blu Ray player. I split the audio because I don't have a 3D capable receiver, so the HDMI video goes direct to the TV and the secondary audio goes to my Onkyo 606 through the sub HDMI cable.

BUT when playing Blu Ray movies and I check the status on the Blu Ray, it says the Blu Ray disc is 1080p/24, but my video HDMI is outputting 1080p/60. Any guesses as to why this is happening? I think it shows this way both on 3D and 2D-3D, and I think, just on plain 2D material. Answers would be greatly appreciated

Check your player's HDMI resolution output settings to ensure you've set it to output 24p. If you did not set it at 24p, or if the disc/movie was not created in 24p, then your player will output at 1080p/60. I use a Panny 110 BD player set to output 24p, and my 47LW5600 will briefly show that it's reading at 24p at the beginning of the BD movie start up.

I had the same problem and didn't realize how deeply buried that setting is on the Panny. Reconfirm that you've turned on 24p output on your Blu-Ray:

go to ...

->SETUP
---->Player Setting
------->TV/Device Connection
----------->HDMI Connection
----------------->24p Output = ON

Not sure if anyone has seen this, but Amazon has magic remotes on sale for $15. I just bought a spare. Amazon Price tracker says that these are normally in the $50-60 range.

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Yep same here don't know why?

Sgooter and Flex727. Thanks, that was it. Shouldn't have assumed 24p was the default. And yes, Flex, it sure is buried pretty deep in the 310 menus.

Hey thanks but i already did that.. i want to know the other settings that can be unlocked also by service menu.

Not sure if this answers your request, but I've read AVS posts making the following claims from accessing the LW5700 service menu: you can enable local dimming; enable a DVR feature that may allow you to attach an ext hard drive to your TV to record OTA HD; and enable 5.1 audio pass thru the TV's optical out port.

And I'm the opposite. Mine always has done this and I would love to turn this feature off.

How about lowering my lag...

Sittin at 119a/96v in RB3...


Anyone have any more thoughts on this?

Just one, stop playing rock band

Thanks again for the reply! i want to know the picture settings like the isf settings and thx cinema and thx 3d... having a hard time searching it here only seen the thx brightroom

Ki321.

Check out this link for the 5700 hacks.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1384595

I was reading in the manual and it mentions Sports mode in the picture settings. I dont see it on my 5700. Do I have to enable it in the service menu?

Also Real Cinema is now greyed out for me. It was working before I enabled THX.

thanks,

Wow...

Thanks for the useless advice.

Lighten up, please. TheGoatLantern was making a joke (note the winky). There's nothing wrong with a bit of humor from time to time.

Just a joke, trying to lighten the mood as it were... have you tried updating firmware? Or the input to PC mode trick? Or the HDMI 3 input trick?


Thank you Flex, all in good fun. I mean that is why we bought the TV right? Fun and entertainment? Also

Have tried it all....

PC mode removes the ability to use Just Scan and that negatively affects lag (apparently) AND i have done all the others you suggested....

Updating the firmware did lower the audio lag from 196 to 119 BUT it also changed the video up to 96 from 79....


Was just curious if there's anything else someone knew about that I could try....


Frankly speaking, I haven't even tried to play my baseball game on the PS3 through HDMI4 yet....

I'm almost afraid to

I also noticed lag input increased when using the latest firmware on the website. I've been using this tv for almost a year now so I thought it was odd everyone was saying the lag was better with this firmware that can only be updated direct from LG website. So I'm getting opposite results from most people but similar to braves22.

You need to stop trying to improve lag on this set. It is absolutely one of the worst TV's for FPS gaming. Bejeweled anyone?

I must be the only one in the World that has this TV, and has no input lag whatsoever playing COD.

I do however have a bit of audio lag as I mentioned before when playing Blurays from my PS3, and having Trumotion set to on. I don't know why. Using the same trumotion setting watching HD DVD's on my 360, and watching shows from my cable box with trumotion on, there is no audio lag. Only when watching blus on my PS3 with Trumotion on is there any audio lag. When I turn it off, problem is solved, and it's all good. But sometimes we like watching with Trumotion on for that window look, and don't know why audio is perfect with everything else besides the blurays when trumotion is set to on.

I have the 5700 with all the service menu hacks and on game and in game mode I don't get lag either. The only time I notice some lag is when playing gears in 3d. Not game breaking but slightly noticeable. My guess is because there is no 3d game mode.

I play in game mode as well on my 55lw5600. funny though... COD Black Ops in 3D plays normal, but like you said... Gears 3 in 3D had just a tad of input lag. i just played that for the first time last night. must be something with Gears.