Official Panasonic ST50 Series Discussion Thread [No Street Price Talk] - Page 269

Copying the settings of someone else on the internet with a different TV is not "calibrating."

I had my 55ST50 for a little over a month now. One of the first movies I watched was Batman and was blown away by the picture quality. I used Cnet settings in the mean time until I get it calibrated early next year by Doug Weil.
Edited by risk235 - 12/28/12 at 8:39pm

No one said it was. I asked him if he was using D-Nice's settings and he confirmed that he was; The Dark Knight Rises should not fail to impress in terms of picture quality, calibration or not,

I have no problem with the coax cable attaching to the ANTENNA/CABLE IN ....just make sure the coax center pin is centered (not bent). The HDMI are input signals, your audio out is the DIGITAL AUDIO OUT optical TOSLINK cable over to your receiver, right next to the ANTENNA/CABLE IN
Does this help?

Agreed! Maybe its a setting PRBR over looked.

Anyone notice the dancing pixels (noise?) in shadow area? Is it normal for plasma?

That sounds like dithering, how many hours do you have on your set ? Is that visible from normal viewing distance ?

It helps.........I'm just trying to use my ARC feature on both my 50ST50 and my Denon receiver so that ( theoretically) I DON'T HAVE to use a digital optical cable for sound from the TV to the receiver to get TV audio through my HT speakers.........

Have ordered said DAC anyway, but any other suggestions? Am awaiting media bridge so I can connect Denon receiver wirelessly to update firmware..........

Have you been over to the Denon thread? Audio...Amps and Receivers or something like that. Between those threads and/or googling batpigworld, you should find everything you need to troubleshoot the issue.

Edit: I see that you've been in the Denon thread. Have you tried Batpig's website? He has some pretty good instructions for just about everything Denon. And I don't know about the xx13 thread, but Jdsmoothie has some decent ARC instructions in the 2nd or 3rd post of the xx12 thread.

Well I am back from a long xmas break and wanted to post an scary experience I had with my panny plasma.

I left early one day on xmas break to go run errands and to xmas shopping and was gone from the house for about 6 hours. When I came back from shopping I went to watch my panny plasma only to find out that someone had been watching impractical jokers and paused the dvr leaving the tv froze on the same screen.

Come to find out my son had been watching it before going to school one morning and forgot to turn off the tv. He left for school at about 8:30 and I did not get home until around 2. This means that entire time the screen was frozen. For those of you that dont know the show impractical jokers has a huge super bright non transparent logo on the bottom right of the screen.

I panicked and quickly turned off the show and tried watching regular TV. I literally crapped my pants when I did this because even watching regular TV the impractical joker logo showed!!!! I thought my TV was ruined. The logo burn in was bright and showed on all types of screens. If I turned on a white/grey slide the logo looked like a permanent perfect picture on the screen.

Anyways I decided to try and see if I could get rid of it. So for the rest of the day I tuned to a channel that had no on screen logos and just let the TV play.
I came back to the TV at 7pm and checked the burn in. I noticed that it was still there and relatively easy to see but I did notice some dissipation.
I ran the screen wiping utility 4 successive times to see if that would help. It did a little but not very much.

At this point I thought my TV was screwed. I decided to go to bed and stop obsessing over the burn in. Before I went to bed I ran the d-nice slideshow but I changed the frequency to normal so the colors changed more rapidly. I left it running.

The next morning at around 10:30 am I came back up to my TV and checked.
The burn in was completely gone!! I looked at every color slide and examined as closely as I could but could find no residual signs of the burn in.

Just wanted to say that even if you think you burn in your TV a little patience and diligence may prove you wrong.

I have tried these methods to no avail (yet)...........am going to try a couple more times in the next week before the optical cable I ordered from Monoprice solves the problem..........thanks for the input, very appreciated..........

It took me a couple times through, fwiw. Do you have any other hdmi cables you could try, just for the heck of it?

I know there have been 3d settings posted here, but I can't find them. Are people just using the 2d dnice setting and boosting the contrast? Thanks

My set is over 200h. Why?
It isn't visiable in normal viewing distance, I must stay close to spot it.Though in some dark screen, I notice the shadow is unsual bright because of this noise.

If youre not seeing it at normal viewing distance then no worries plasma dither normal behavior

Anyone have any experience with this SNES issue?

Are you using the supplied cable that came with the ST50? Please refer to pages 19 and 20 in the manual.

I found the default Cinema picture mode looks best with the Panasonic glasses. Whatever you use, there's no need to boost the contrast as the 3D image itself is already drastically brightened to compensate for the glasses.

Waiting for one from Monoprice.........originally ordered one that was ~6 inches too short for the connection , bought another at Wally World that is not a nicely colored Monoprice one, but evidently is not "working right"..............

Really? First I've heard of this happening over a little IR.

I have more questions................

I have been watching TV on my 50ST50 for 2 days now.........no problems, image fine. I have NOT "cured" the unit with a slide show or other prep process. .........Now, when I am trying to watch DVD form my new Panasonic Bluray player, I see flickering static on the TV in both dark and light fields ( ie. the whole time)...........as long as the movie is playing, it's not bad, but when it's on a dark screen, it is very noticable...........is this normal, and if not, SHOULD I run sort sort of "curing" process to eliminate it? Or is this a disc problem ( it has happened with 2 so far)?

I don't think you would be getting the power up flash unless there was a signal successfully being transmitted from the SNES to your TV. It sounds like the issue is with your SNES. Have you tried it with another TV?

We,ve been using a 50st50 for about a month and need a boost in audio on a budget. The quickest fix would be a soundbar, however, we have 3 hdmi devices connected. Does this mean the soundbar needs 3 hdmi connections too? I'm trying to wrap my head around this setup

Probably just a bad DVD. Most of my DVDs look great up converted through my ps3, some older ones have a lot of static like you said. Try another DVD. And if it flickers during a blu ray switch to 60hz for 24p.

^^^ Addendum: I put one of my DVDs in and the problem still occurs........possibly a problem with the connection/HDMI cable.......will reconfigure in the morning and see what happens.

I'm noticing that when I switch to the Bluray input on my Denon to play DVDs/Blurays, My TV screen will do the flickering pixel dance all over the screen.........should this be happening? Is this indicative of a bad connection?

Sounds like what you are talking about is dithering. Lower the brightness to make it less noticeable. Its something that all plasmas do. What settings/presets are you using? I lowered the brightness on mine and it got a little too dark so upped the contrast to make it brighter. Currtelly using another posters settings as a base, changed the contrast to 90 and brightness to 48 and it looks great. Never did the curing process either.

To all my fellow canadians for people with bell fibe do you select 1080i or 720p option since there is no auto on them. I know rogers used to be auto btw. Ive noticed 720p migh be a lil sharper btw.

I'd like to request a PM from anyone who "recently" bought a ST50 and was able to get what they consider a very good deal.

FWIW, I'm hunting for a 65" in either the ST or GT lines; just trying to find the best deal!

Thanks and happy holidays!

B

No, you would continue to use the ST to switch Inputs and just put an optical cable out of the ST to the soundbar. Most soundbars will have the digital optical input.

I do know that all channels fed to your box are in 720p. So the decision has to be made whether you want the box to interlace and upscale to 1080i (at which it is probably not very good at) and feed that to the TV which deinterlaces that or whether you want the TV to take the 720p signal, and upscale to 1080p. Perhaps you have found the answer to that as I believe a couple of people on digitalhome.ca are feeding 720p to their Panasonics despite the general sentiment that the Panasonics do not handle 720p that well. In essence, there are less processing steps and the video processing in the Bell Fibe boxes are not going to be very good.