Official Panasonic GT50 Series Discussion Thread [No Street Price Talk] - Page 193

I tried to use the usb and dlna on my ST30 and ended up getting a boxee since nothing worked well and the upscaler is not good on the tv. I'd say the '50 series is the same:(

I tried a usb powered drive and it just clicks when I plug it into the tv. The cable that came with the enclosure has a seperate usb dongle for more power and even that doesn't work. The drive inside is a 100Gb IDE 2.5".

I agree with tpollagi and just get an hdmi media player, best advise.

Nice. My room has 6 windows that are taller and just as wide as yours and my room looks similar size. It faces east south east so from 7am till 2pm it gets bombed by the sun. My shutters are angled up to allow reflective light hit the ceiling. It's pretty bright but nothing compared to if the shutters were completely opened. Yes the picture is not as good as it is at night, it's a little washed out. It's still good enough for me. I don't used day and night settings just HD masters night settings. I'd say it's worth trying just buy from somewhere where returning will be a non-issue

Most likely, yes. I'm sure someone sells an adapter that you plug into that also has a wall plug, then it plugs into the TV's usb port as well, and takes care of powering the hard drive. Still, I personally wouldn't mess with it. I'd get some sort of a media server like the guy above said. Right now I'm trying out this Serviio program for Windows computers. If it works well, it should solve all my problems, and probably would solve yours as well.

One day someone will come out with a media server that solves all our problems. It's amazing that in 2013 we still have all these incompatibility issues, and even USB hard drives not working with everything? Ridiculous. Or better yet, release a TV that can view everything. Just make a deal with VLC, it would take them 2 months to port a media player over that would play literally everything. You'd be the savior of everyone who watches TVs, which is all people.

Hear this Panasonic? Do this and I'll buy a brand spanking new TV every other year from you, I promise. Don't make me pay someone else to watch my stuff on your TV.

edit: If anyone here has enough coding experience to mess around with adding codec support, I bet we could find enough people on this forum to donate a few bucks each, and make it worth your time. If I could learn in under 100 hours I'd probably do it myself. I've lost that many hours over the years already, just messing around with getting this and that to work with this and that.
Edited by Porteroso - 1/22/13 at 5:21pm

If so, I would go grab a cheap/small "powered" USB hub. Plug the hub into the TV and wall power - plug your drive into the hub. The hub will power your drive etc.

Cheers

Where is the TV going in this picture and then also which directions do your windows face?

My windows and sliding glass door are all on the due south side of the home and the tv is on the east wall. We get day light all day long...I have blinds on the two family room windows (where the tv is) and I can see the reflections of objects when the tv is off. However, when the TV is on it does a great job of keeping up with all the natural sunlight coming in the home. We don't get any direct sun-glare due to being due south and it being on the east wall. Direct glare is another problem which I wouldn't stand for. Compared to the LCD it's replacing, it keeps up during the day. I dont have the issues these other guys have posted.

Just got my GT50 mounted and running today finally! The red led on the front, is there a way to disable it?

Is anybody else running panasonic apps on iPad for remotes? I haven't been able to get any of these to run reliably, any tips?

There is no way to disable the light. Many people use these:

http://www.amazon.com/LightDims-Original-Strength/dp/B009WSJNCW/ref=pd_sbs_e_1

Google lightdims. Works great for any annoying led. I use Android sorry :-)

Edit : aha ninja'd by James!

Good tip, thanks guys!

Is there a definitive calibration disc everyones using these days?

Is anyone having issues streaming YouTube HD content? What will happen is that the first minute or two will play fine and then it will start to skip. This only happens on HD content. A good video to try playing back is Gangnam Style by PSY. Usually around the 2:00 mark, the video will freeze and then start stuttering.

Netflix HD and Hulu+ does not exhibit this behavior.

What I found interesting is that the TV seems to be limited to 6Mbps down. To figure this out, I launched the web browser and searched google for "Speed Test Mini" and ran the mini-speedtest client from speedtest.net. No matter what network settings I tried, it would not go over 6Mbps even though my connection is consistently 15Mbps.

Can any experimenters try running the mini-speedtest and share your results?

Thank you.

I have run the Viera app on iPad-4 without any problems. I almost deleted it, it serves virtually no useful purpose. Keyboard entry is fine but I never enter text on the TV so who cares. The basic tv remote buttons are more efficient for all the tv functions and menus. Pushing pictures and video is potentially OK but I seldomly use the camera on the iPad. Pulling video onto the iPad looked very useful but this is not available on the US models.

Is the brightness on this tv typical for a plasma (day time viewing)? Im fine with the brightness on my samsung pn58b650. Just wanted to know whether this tv was similar. I should be ordering my 65" soon.

I'm running a Ipad2. Main reasn i'm attempting to go all app is my equipment is in a different room. I going through a booster and i remember reading somewhere that signal boosters and routers can cause issues for remote apps. Any thoughts pn that?

Yes, the USB power is limited on the Panasonic TVs, so an external hard drive needs more power via separate USB power supply or via a Y-cable to get two USB plugs for extra power.
Thats what I did with an external hard drive.
USB Flash drives take a lot less power and work fine though.

It chance get brighter than your Samsung of you want it to.

It is close, but I'd say the Panasonic will get brighter, especially at night. http://i.imgur.com/fCmt0h.jpg Left is GT50 using blackOps settings and right is pn51e7000 using CNet settings.

Thanks for the feedback and that was my own conclusion as well. Last year I receieved a Samsung UN6400 led smart tv as part of a work points program for free, my first adventure in smart tvs. Using that as a comparison it blows this unit away. It will play anything I plug into it flawlessly via usb and streams without a stutter anything from pc (except huge bluray files which is more of a network issue) Why should I be expecting less from a more expensive newer model? Why should I have to spend more $ to get the same things out of advertised features working on this TV. Its a negative, and Im not sure it would have changed my decision, but it needs to be called out here for anyone expecting to use those features if say they enjoyed them flawlessy on a different set (lg or samsung etc) and assumed the Panny would work the same way. I dont think thats to much to expect personally.

As for the other ask I will dig up and post a link to the Serviio viera profile I use in a few.

Edit here is the post that lays out 2 profiles I think I am using the one called Panasonic Viera no AVI. Follow the instructions to cut and paste it into the file they specify. Any questions let me know.

http://forum.serviio.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=5119&start=60#p36709

Also to answer my own question I bought an asus ac1750 router last night and this TV is wirless n and will connect on the 5ghz channel. This router absolutley rocks if your inthe market for an upgrade.
Edited by Dagg21 - 1/23/13 at 9:24am

I have been tinkering with it, it uses are limited, great when your kids hide the remote! I was able to drag my browser screen and share it to the tv. Helps when I want to show something in my ipad browser to the wife and I am being lazy .

Honestly ,


Honestly, you should really use Kevin miller from Tweakmytv.com he is the best in the industry and will make your tv pop. Regardless of whether or not it's a gt or a vt. My gt looks phenomenal after a Kevin miller calibration. Just a word to the wise

Kevin is one of the best in the industry, yes. As is Chad.

Gee..someone is a little defensive. Lol
I never mentioned anything about chad. But since you bring it up, I am reminded of the quote from Macbeth..."me thinks thou doth protest too much"
I'll let the reader decide for themselves while I stand on my laurels.

Considering how little you know about the various top notch calibrators around the country, I would hardly consider you to be a good judge of who is best.
Edited by HD-Master - 1/23/13 at 12:14pm

In regards to the question asked a few post back....

How are you saving multiple custom settings?
e.g. night / day / 3D

Sorry if this is newbie question.
Thanks

I use an HDMI splitter from my AVR to my GT50. So HDMI 1 is set to Custom with my Day settings, while HDMI 2 is set to Custom with my Night settings.

I remember that post. I would have been highly offended, if I was Chad.

Just got my TV delivered from Amazon. Extremely happy so far. I plan on just watching different content on THX cinema for the first 200 hours then decide on calibration.

I'm using the the settings I found on cnet for the samsung. I understand the tv can go as bright as I want it, but how would they compare using the cnet settings?