Official Panasonic 2011 TC-PxxST30 Thread [No Price Talk] - Page 276

ahh so in my case ill just have to get something like a roku and stream movies that way

Yes if you want 5.1 out of optical, not sure if arc passes 5.1 have heard conflicting stories.

Well I have had my 65ST30 since Feb. Great TV, 90% gaming call of duty. No IR or burn in, My wife is doing P90X and she decides to pause it on screen for about an hour. I can now see P90X across the bottom of my screen. It has been on there for about 2 days. Should I run the break in slides? Or use the scrolling bar.? I tried playing the PS3 music player that flashes the different colors. That didn't seem to do anything.

Thanks to those who suggested removing the back to tighten the screws on the right board (when facing back of tv). My buzz was starting to get very loud. Dead silent now after tightening two loose screws.

I have two months left in my 60ST30 warranty and the uniformity issue has not improved enough to stay with this set. Sometimes for quite a while during mixed content, I don't see anything wrong at all, but eventually, in almost every TV program or film I see the pink sides and green/yellow centre area at least once or twice. Depending on the material I am watching, it can be there through-out over half the movie, maybe more. All depends on the material. Anything with grey or beige, sometimes white backgrounds, the pink sticks out the most. Sometimes in commercials with a white background it's really bad. Pink sides and green/yellow middle. Kind of strange in that the dividing lines on the sides appear to correspond with the area that is the line for 4:3 material such as when it's pillarboxed. Oddly, the letterboxes from non-HD content don't leave any retention image. Going to call Panasonic over the next couple weeks and look into what I can have done.

Any other Canadians had their ST30 fixed or replaced under warranty due to the pink/green/yellow issue?
Edited by cpc - 10/27/12 at 1:55pm

my router died and i just replaced it with the same model, a new one. all computers can get wifi but the tv cant find the router. when i do the test it cannot get past the first step. any ideas?

the only thing i can think of is im not done setting up the router, i am stuck at configuring the security settings for it. i need to look for the key (password) to set the security to WPA Personal. but still, the computers can get wifi at this point.

I couldn't get mine to connect to my router either. I gave up and used a cable instead.

well that is not acceptable. it should work again. im thinking the tv is searching for the same account i originally created with the previous router, not the new account with new router. maybe the first account is saved on the tv or something so it sees there is internet available, but it cant connect to the new router. did you call panasonic? i plan to call them tomorrow
Edited by bradymartin - 11/1/12 at 5:20pm

looks like i was correct. the tv was trying to recognize the previous router that died on me. i called panasonic and they had me do some sort of reboot that would erase everything. now the tv recognized the new router and i get wifi but i had to reinput all calibration settings etc from scratch.

call panasonic and youll get your wifi back

Just curious, did you use the same SSID with the new router? It sounds like it might have worked with a different SSID.

i dont even know what an ssid is. i did buy the exact same router brand and model that died on me. it worked for like 10 years so i know its reliable.

this one

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BTL0OA/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00

i just put new router cd in computer and followed the steps. i named the new router account the same as the old one, i also used the same key (password) for internet security as the old router though.

wifi didnt work.

so then i called panasonic the next day and by panasonic having me reboot the tv i was able to connect to the internet. but had to do initial setup, video audio settings etc. again

The SSID is what you see on your device when you try to connect to a wireless access point. Based on what you said you probably had the same SSID. I suspect that the TV is associating the SSID and the MAC address, which is unique for each router.

I have seen the same thing happen on my iPhone, but the problem can be fixed by "forgetting" the wifi network and then reconnecting to the wifi network. It sounds like the ST30's can't forget a wifi network without clearing everying.

I use wired ethernet, but I did use wifi for a few months when I first got the TV.

i think you hit the nail on the head there. i just hope if someone has the same problem i had they know what to do now. thanks for your post about ssid mac address etc. i understand a little bit more about home theater every day reading this forum.

Yeah, I would hate to have to restore all the TV settings manually. The only issue with a new SSID is that all your other wifi devices have to join the new network, which is probably not a big deal.

damn it. ever since my tv was reset in order to connect to new router now theres something else wrong. on some shows it looks like the image is zoomed in. but i have it set to full as well as direct tv set to widescreen etc. also when i use watch a youtube video on the tv youtube app the videos are definitely zoomed in. anyone know how to fix this?

Yesterday I had a tech do the A-Board swap. Last night while watching TV, I got an error where my tv turned off, came back on several seconds later with the message "An error has been detected and recovered."

WTF?

Has anyone else seen this? Google just comes up with 2007 models.

cant read the whole thread. should pixel orbiter be enabled?

Yes leave it on, it does help with IR

I'm not Canadian, but I got 2 different opinions on the issue, and was told that I was being too picky/"that's how plasma's are"

So you have the issue? Who gave you the opinions that you were being too picky? I don't believe wanting a white screen to be all white and not yellow/green in the middle, and to not have pink sides with grey or beige/tan scenes is not being picky.

I just picked up some 3d glasses from sainsonic.com for $19.99 each and so far am pretty satisfied with them. They were for my wife and daughter and while the coverage of the lenses is probably just a tad too small for my large head and big eyes, they seem to do well for them. Very lightweight as well. Quality is good and seem to hold a good charge. For the price, they can't be beat. Only con is that they ship from China and it took about 3 weeks for them to arrive.

I too have been enjoying my Sainsonic glasses. For the price and performance they would be hard to beat.

I have an issue I was hoping folks here could help with. My wireless adapter has suddenly stopped working. I can connect via wired connection, but can no longer connect via the wireless adapter. Chatted with the Panasonic tech folks and they wanted me to do a service reset via the power/menu buttons. I didn't want to do that yet as I didn't want to lose all of my custom settings, so I thought I would check here and see if anyone had any other hints as to how to troubleshoot my problem.

I own a TC-P50ST30 may 2011 build with and updated firmware to address the fluctuating brightness issue.

In cinema mode (all set to default except for noise reduction set to off) my image is just too dark when watching any HDMI source. I was playing around with the color temperature and realized that the issue occurs only with the warm 2 settings. Going to warm 1 makes the image much brighter and I'm not understanding the logic behind that.

I'm seriously starting to think my panel is defective. Can anyone try to switch between warm 1 and 2 and see if it affects brightness like my panel? Or does someone have an explanation for this weird issue or feature maybe...

Cinema warm 2



Cinema warm 1




I have done a factory reset before posting all pictures

Nevermind........it has suddenly come back by itself.

Weird.

Well Image Retention is still there, somewhat faded but still present. I am going to go ahead and call it slight burn in. Should of faded by now.

Use an all white screen with high contrast

O.K. Thanks, should I do it on vivid with 100% bright and 100% contrast? Should I put the tv on High panel brightness? The white line going across the TV hasn't done much for it.

Got a question for st30 owners.
I have had my TV for almost a year now. However, recently I have begun to notice a greener color to some scenes that have grayscales such as fog and shadowy scenes.

The best way I can show it is if I put up a grayscale from the avshd709 disk there is green bands going top to bottom at certain shades of gray. Depending on brightness and other calibrations they will shift from left to right.

I have tried this through a HTPC, USB drive to the side, and a burnt dvd. All have the same effect. However, on the HTPC if I bring it to another monitor it does not show this problem. So I am almost 100% sure its something with the TV.

I calibrated grayscale using 10point measurements and was able to get them all under a delta of 5. However the problem still exists.

It is very subtle and most people would call me crazy for even pointing it out... I feel like everyone here would understand my concern though.

It doesn't seem to show up on any slides of solid color, at least at 5% intervals, so I don't think its the green blob problem other people have mentioned.

Has this been documented anywhere else? Anyone hear about this type of behavior? Any suggestions on what to do?

Thanks.
Edited by Shinyav - 12/5/12 at 8:14pm

Call Panasonic and have somebody come and look at it.

I have a similar issue and what I believe is an odd coincidence (because it's always been that way and it's not from too much 4:3 content)...the green/yellow area is only in much of the 4:3 area of the screen and it's always been that way. I notice it on white, grey and beige/tan (desert) scenes. Also, the sides can appear somewhat pink, most visible during gray scenes. I emailed Panasonic Canada and they mentioned I have a 30 day grace period. I'll be calling them again referencing that email, since I'm just a few days outside of a year now.

Give Panasonic a call and have somebody check it out if you can.

BTW ...if I keep this set or have it repaired or replaced, does anybody know if the 3D glasses are still available?

Are there other options still available for the ST30? Aftermarket?
What about the PS3 Sony TDG BR50 3D glasses? Do they work well?
Edited by cpc - 12/15/12 at 3:18pm