Official Panasonic VT50 owners thread - Page 166

good luck - I guarantee you'll be satisfied with their customer service.

Five minutes later...getting a replacement. Thanks everyone.

No one has discussed 3D on this set. Does anyone know the model number of the 3 D glasses for the VT-50? Has anyone tried 3D yet? The complaint about panasonic has always been the picture is too dark, but I heard this model provided more brightness. Has anyone set up their settings for 3D viewing? Just curious what 3D movie I should buy to test it out. Any suggestions?

I was pleasantly surprised by the 3d on this set. Especially after seeing 3D on the Samsung D8000 and this years ES8000. It's not quite up to that level of 3d, but definitely the best 3d I've seen on a plasma. There was very little crosstalk and the brightness was decent but not great. As far as what movies to watch, pretty much any animated 3d movie will look good. Personally, I think Tangled, Hugo and of course.... Avatar, look great. But only Avatar If you can find a copy under $100

3D is good, not great. I actually think Samsung has better 3D. The glasses are TY-ER3D4MU. Make sure you get the correct glasses if you get the Panasonic glasses. HOWEVER, you can also use the $20 Samsung glasses and they ARE compatible. They are just as effective, but not quite as sturdy or comfortable. I have 2 of the Panasonic glasses and 4 of the Samsung glasses.

I actually use VIVID mode for 3D because it is so dark (a problem inherent with 3D). Also, I adjusted the 3D settings to +1 to give it more depth. There is a -3 to +3 scale and it is defaulted to 0. Any more then +1 hurt my eyes - so I left it there. You can use 0 as well, but there won't be as much depth.

Green Lantern is a great 3D experience, though the movie is just okay. I've also watch the Shreks (good 3D) and Megamind (just okay 3D).

Did they upgrade shipping as well to a free 2-day or something like that?

I actually changed the 3D depth per your recommendation to +1 and while it gave a tiny more depth, it also made it a little blurry, especially in the background picture. I don't know if you've seen it, but I definitely did on my set.

I agree with you about Samsung. Especially the new ES8000. The 3D is Phenomonal and just the overall clarity, brightness, motion, and color far exceeds any plasma. Oh well, no such thing as a "perfect" tv

Monday they said. There's white spots in a bottom corner now, so I just called back and asked to get Friday delivery. I'll find out tomorrow morning.

Yeah - they're pretty good about that. I'd be surprised if they denied you. Of course, I order a ton of stuff on there - so maybe that's why they're always so nice to me.

Hi all, I have a 55vt50 paired with a Sony BDP S790 and everytime I hit the internet button on the VT50 remote, it powers the BD player and the TV switches to the BD input. I have the VT50 connected to the BD via HDMI and analog audio to an older, pre-HDMI Elite receiver. Is there a way to disable the BD from powering on when I go to the TV's internet? Thanks.

I didn't see the blur - it took a little for my eyes to adjust to the depth. Wonder if anyone else has experimented with +1 - it made more than a tiny difference for me. I don't watch a ton of 3D movies though.

My buddy has the top Samsung Plasma and his 3D is definitively better than mine. However, my PQ on everything else is much better IMO. So, to me, it's a no brainer between the 2. But, I do wish this TV had Samsung level 3D.

I'm a regular there myself this is the first big item return I've done though. The second person I talked to was very apologetic that he wouldn't know until the morning if they could get it to me on Friday. It was a really refereshing experience to say the least.

yep - sounds about right...good luck, and let us know how your replacement unit works out

Turn off VieraLink in the TV's settings menu.

Will do, and thanks for the push to call Amazon.

Does any one else have a "Yellow Blotch" appearing on the near right hand side of their 55Vt50 on a white background or light tone coloured:mad: ?This just started to appear over the past week.Thank you:confused:
Edited by Ricker62 - 7/25/12 at 8:32pm

I just wanted to add that other than that unfortunate vertical line, it's amazing how good the picture is OOTB. I have it on THX Bright Room, set brightness/contrast with Disney WOW, and I've been just floored with the test movies I've put to it. Right now the STL/LAD game looks like it would at the field under the lights. I'm truly excited for what a properly calibrated replacement can do.

And for all the Bezel haters - it's very unobtrusive and elegant. My wife called the TV 'very sophisticated looking'.

They not only charged me to upgrade but also tacked on another year to my contract. That was last year. I moved back to Charter, which looks much better since they installed an amp.

Adding to the contract is standard and expected. They don't hand out free equipment just so someone can jump to cable 3 days later. There are several variables they look at, like (How long have you been a customer, how long ago were you upgraded, how rude were you when they answered the phone).

For those existing Directv users interested in upgrading, simply request the customer retention department right off the bat. They will bend over backwards for you if you don't come off as a pretentious %$#&.

There has to be some truth to what I say. I got two upgraded DVR's free of charge over a 1 month period after I had previously signed a two year agreement. Sure I had to re-start the two years, but that is expected. How do you think I got my 65VT50 for sub $3k the day they were available? And I don't mind extending my contract because I love the service.

And you can't simply expect that the first poor slouch that works all day in a call center to be accommodating.

Before we lose track of why this was brought up in the first place, it seems that everyone complaining of a soft picture or 1080i oddities has cable, or at least do not have satellite. The UPS guy did not pick up the processor yesterday, so I got tempted and hooked it up again for one last hoora last night. No matter how I set the VP, descent content never looked noticeably sharper, only harsher.

If I say red lollipops are the best, you will say red lollipops killed your dog. So let's try this, "I hate the VT50.". Now you can tell us how much you love it. Amiright?


I actually love my VT50... shhhhhh...
Edited by TopperMcFly - 7/26/12 at 6:39am

1) I Love my GT50. If you read you would know just how much I love my 60GT50.
2) I was just stating the facts sir and did not address you (talk about coming off as a pretentious %$#&. .)
3) Free? No, those boxes are not free, I paid $200 or more for each 4 and at the end of the contract had to return them to Directv, I also paid for them each month as well. The need to upgrade was to have the system work properly.
4) I love Directv's customer service, IMO there is no better in the industry. The average CSR was not as knowledgeable about the system as I was, but that's a sign of the times. Rarely did I run into anyone with a bad attitude. I got along with them so well, all the way up the chain, that I received whole home dvr equipment and installation for free, as well as some other goodies.
5)The image quality of Directv's HD is no better than the HD that I currently get through Charter, which could be the result of my local head-end, the signal booster or my TIVO XL -or all of the above. Also, Charter is shooting for at least 100 HD channels by the end of the year. My bill is also way less than I was paying at Directv with fewer strings. So the hype about Directv is becoming obsolete.
6) Spell check add-ons are free and are very accommodating.
7) I don't own a dog, I'm a cat person but we do agree- red lollipops are the best.
Edited by sheshechic - 7/26/12 at 6:42am

Has anyone else experienced lip sync issues with their VT50? It seems every now and then I've been having lip sync issues but I'm sure it's not the tv. I have Bell TV and only a few channels show the issue, then something like CNN is fine. Bluray movies are fine too which leads me to believe it isn't the tv. I thought it might have been the surround system, but even using the tv speakers at the same time, but the audio is perfectly matched. Anyone else have problems with this? It seems to have started only when I got the VT50.

When you say that it happens when using the tv speakers at the same time, do you mean that the source is still running through your avr? If so then try running the signal directly into the tv to completely eliminate your sound system as the culprit and that is not to say that it's not the tv station, since there are some that have had sync issues.

Hello all,
After waiting almost a year for my ten year old Pioneer to die it finally did. I read this forum and other review sites and am now the proud owner of the 55inch VT50!!!

Love it! Love it! Love it!!

Anyway two questions/observations.

1. PC connection
When I tried to connect my PC (DVI with a VGA adapter) to the VGA port on the VT50, all I got for the most part was green noise. After fiddling and fiddling, no help.
So thinking that maybe the PC was set at too high a resolution by default, I ran the VGA cable from PC into a spare monitor and set the resolution to 1280 X 728.
I immediately plugged that into the VT50 and got a video signal for the PC. Problem solved right? No. After turning off and rebooting everything same green crap.

So, I tried another tack (is that a word?). I connected a DVI-HDMI cable to the PC and ran that to HDMI 3 on the Pany. Low and behold, perfection!

Now, while I totally have a perfectly good working solution, I am quite perplexed as to why the VGA on the Pany doesn't seem to work. I have seen reports on older Pany models having the same problem.
Anyone aware of this?

2. Wireless VS Ethernet connection
Now this is just an observation and a frustration. My laptop has both wireless and Ethernet capability. When I am just fooling around on it (surfing, gaming, whatnot), I use the wireless connection. But if I want to download a large file from
the Web or another computer, I just pop in my Ethernet cable, and the laptop immediately begins using the faster 1000gps download speed of the cable. (never can get that straight 1000g or 1000G 10/100/1000 you know what I mean.)

My point here is that I would like to use the Ethernet cable on the VT50 for streaming (Netflix Etc) and the wireless for things that need wireless (IPAD mirroring for example).
But I can't. I can only have one on at a time. I have to switch each time. That is very frustrating. I have the same issue with my Apple TV. It only runs in one mode at a time.
Why couldn't they make the TV like a laptop? Able to switch on the fly?
Like I said, just an observation and a frustration. Other than that I am loving the crap out of this TV. Loved my old Pioneer too. Ten long years and only one repair. May she rest in peace!!

Yes I would run it through both. Seperate sound to the avr and seperate plug in to the tv. Usually if the problem is between the avr (as I've had this in the past with a different tv) there will be a noticeable echo in the room as the two sound sources won't match. There is no echo, the sound is perfectly matched. I'll need to do some more testing. I still think it's the satellite receiver.

Maybe your laptop works differently then mine or I don't understand how the two network connections work but if you have the ethernet cable plugged in, then I think it is going to use that instead of the WIFI unless you disable the wired connection. You said you just plug a cable into your laptop when you want to download a large file so this seems to confirm my previous conjecture. This kind of confuses me though because if you are wanting the TV to do the same as your laptop when you are plugging/unplugging a cable from your laptop all the time (at least it sounds like that). Are you wanting to constantly be plugging/unplugging a cat5 cable to your TV? Honestly I don't know what you would need a wired connection for to the TV. Wireless should be fine for streaming netflix unless your wireless really sucks. If your TV is hooked up to your network then you should be able to access it through an IPAD via wireless also. Just not sure what you are getting at haha.

Seriously, let's get back on point and we can both stop acting like kids. I am not removing my bold responses because they are super awesome.
Edited by TopperMcFly - 7/26/12 at 8:08am

Of course you think they are.

Well I was expecting something nastier than that for a last shot. But now that we can be BFF's, I am changing my screen name to HeHeDude. Well I might not do that, but I will play nice if you do.

I didn't miss the point, you did (possibly distracted by too many words?) or you're intentionally deflecting.

Certainly, stbs can add unwanted artifacts and it is true that not all stbs of the same model perform equally. With that exception taken into account, I don't believe that the problem of "softness" can be confidently blamed on cable stbs. There is a general agreement, among most on other forums, that "softness" = dithering in this year's top models.

Until I can see what someone else is experiencing I have to think that what some are calling "softness" is actually the result of increased dithering. My tv doesn't exhibit problems with sharpness at all, the snow scenes in Game of Thrones is gobsmacking, However, watching Leverage on TNT in HD produces an image that I can understand people describing as soft, since the color scheme and/or back grounds are often dark or low contrast. It's in watching Leverage that I noticed that a person wearing and outfit in high contrast to the person's skin tones results in a sharp image while the background is filled with intense dithering and appears soft. Lastly, it doesn't matter if the signal is 1080i or not either- I changed resolutions of the TIVO on a show broadcast by Biography in 480p the other day and noticed no change in sharpness at all.
Your insult is off target, there is no desperation, I'm just type A and with all that red in the quote of your statement I had to fight the urge to fix it.