Official 2011 Panasonic Settings/Issues Thread - Page 5

not that i know of.

Well that sucks

Why does this seem like a crock to me? I mean any normal full 16x9 viewing of random programs for 100 hours should achieve the same effect.

One could say that these slides provide a guaranteed red green and blue spectrum across the screen, but any normal viewing also provides a guaranteed red green and blue spectrum across the screen. Would it be absolutely even between the colors on every pixel? No, but during the the movement of each frame in 100 hours you'll have 10 million frames, which based on random TV viewing will get you the same effect.

That all being said, I guess its a good way to break in your plasma, eventhough, for some reason, it is explicitly stated to NOT use it for that purpose. And thats another thing that doesn't make any sense at all, it seems its perfect for that!!!!

Besides whats going to happen if you run it for 100 hours, then punch in those settings and continue watching it for another 100 hours, the content on that second 100 hours is going to uniquely change your panel based on the content of the movies your watching.

So after 1000 hours, everyone is going to have random content determining the "breaking in" of your pixels, so does that first 100 hours of an even distribution of 33% for each color really make a difference if under normal viewing you would have gotten an average of 30% to 35% of each color?

Hey new to this forum a quick question I wanted to ask before taking my 55 gt30 out of the box for calibration, can someone please elaborate more briefly on what is the meaning of this? ''These offsets must be entered for both Color matrixes (HD/SD). You access the different matrixes by using a 1080i/p signal for the HD matrix and 480i/p signal for the SD matrix''. under SM Access Instructions. I greatly appreciate it.

I was wondering the same thing. If you don't watch sd, why adjust for it?

really? that doesn't seem right at all.. don't have my set yet (will be here tomorrow) but that's pretty surprising.. can anyone confirm this?

Thanks!

I see by reading some of your posts that you're not Panasonic's biggest fan right now, but I really appreciate all the work you've done here to help out Panny owners and soon to be owners like me. Other than the info in the first couple of posts of the thread, any other words of wisdom for setting up/taking care of a VT that I may have over looked?

BIG TIME WoW! d-nice

I appreciate the vt30 settings update! Now, there's reason for me to run the Post1 slides.

Just talked to a Panasonic rep regarding my FBr and he tried to play it off saying the latest firmware WILL fix the FBr issue and I politely let him know he was wrong. He even said that it's not possible to go into the Service Menu to check the PDP EEP values.

Now I gotta stay on hold for another 30 minutes lol

Trying to run these slides on my new 60" ST30 but I'm having problems viewing them. In the pic preview grid before the slideshow starts, every other preview box will have a "!" in it and when I try to view it, I get a message saying "Can't display photo" or something like that.

I've re-formatted my USB stick and moved the pics to the root of the stick but nothing works. Anyone know what the problem is?

EDIT: I think I figured it out. Used the info button on the "!" files they all have ._ in front of them (._Slide02, ._Slide03). I'm on a Mac and I think it's some weird invisible file that OSX creates for some reason. Guess I'll have to boot into Windows and extract them from the zip that way.

Can someone help me with the SM Access Instructions from D-nice? I have ran the slides with the correct settings and I have no put all the settings in place as per the walkthrough. I'm now at the point of the SM Access and it looks like I have to do this twice? Once with a bluray playing and another time with a standard dvd playing to do 1080p and 480p to set the SM offsets?

Help is greatly appreciated.

Well I'm about 3 minutes in. LMAO this is gonna suck. I hope its worth it. My wife thinks im an ass.
But what else is new.

Just got my 50st30 and was wondering what are the settings you guys are using for sports. I've used dnice and cnets and televisioninfo but they seem too dim even in a dark room??? any feedback would help

Can someone either post stock/factorySM Offsets


R-DRV: ?
G-DRV: ?
B-DRV: ?
R-CUT: ?
G-CUT: ?
B-CUT: ?

Original values were stored in my computer and something went wrong. If stock/factory is not known because all panels are allegedly all "unique" then possibly more of a recommendation for these so I can adjust from there? Settings are currently F-d and I'm no NOOB at this. Just asking for a little assistance. Thanks in advance

I watch a lot of sports football and hockey I find these settings work well.
Contrast-80
Brightness-55
Color-35
Tint-+1
Sharpness-+20
Color Tmp.-Normal
W/B High R -3
W/B High G-0
W/B High B -5
W/B Low R -3
W/B Low G-0
W/B Low B -2
Gamma- 2.4
Panel Brightness- Mid
AGC- +1

The setting are from the James Cameron Avatar movie that Panasonic have on there web site. I changed the Panel from high to mid and added the AGC +1 it gives it that extra little brightness.
Good Luck.

I purchased a 50gt30 from amazon earlier in the week. It arrived today with a March 2011 build date!

Mine is due next week. It shipped out of Phoenix. Got my fingers crossed.

Did you have to take it out of the box to see the build date or the serial number?

Yup. It's on the back of the box. Don't worry it's a simple fix.

Huh?

I was led to believe it requires a board swap. This is the FBr problem we're talking about?

Amazon said I could refuse shipment and it would be processed as a return automatically.

It does but it takes all of 10 minutes. Probably easier than returning it. Just my two cents.

Hey guys,

Just got my 65vt30 delivered and am currently running the slides.

It says it was manufactured on July 2011 and the s/n is MJ1182. Am I screwed in anyway? I don't see any issues now (knock on wood) but from reading some of the posts on this tv there were during certain build dates. Can someone briefly state what it was?

Also I hear at times when the slides are changing a buzzing sound coming from the rear top portion of the tv. Is this normal?

Finally how do I check and update the firmware? I have it connected wirelessly to my network.

*edit* Sorry forgot one more thing. How do I know if the tv is EPROM updated or non EPROM updated?

tia

Those of you who have been buying from Amazon and taking delivery through CEVA, have they been leaving box and packaging or taking them away?

whatever you do, keep the box... pretty good chance it will go back.....

Hmm, I bought an older plasma a couple of years ago.

Still in my garage.

yeah but plasmas circa 2008 did not have all these problems...

Hmm, okay, I didn't get the sense that there were a lot of returns. Panasonic isn't servicing them in-home?

do what you want, they wont take the box anyway. and good luck having panasonic service and fix the green blobs, pink tint. yes their are quite a few returns, mainly because of screen uniformity. but they can fix the FBr...still sucks to have a brand new tv serviced.

im on my 3rd brand 5th set coming monday and if it still has the pink tint it will go back....

Are you using these as your CUSTOM settings? Then what are you using for normal TV? Movies? Or is this enough of a medium that you don't chg between medias.

thx