The Official Panasonic VT50 Settings Thread - Page 45

Plugged these into to Custom last night on my 65VT50. Adjusted the Brightness and Contrast for my room lighting. WOW. I have been using another member's calibrated settings for two weeks with great results, but your Day D-nice calibrated settings give the image DEPTH I've never experienced before! Frankly, it gives me pause to save for a pro calibration once I get 500+ hours on this TV. Thank you to Dwayne and thank YOU for sharing.

Hey congrats! IMO seems like you are doing everything right. Brightness and Contrast you should be adjusted to your environment. For the color and tint this is how I see it (and an expert can definitely correct me here): If you need to adjust those its just a reflection that his settings aren't calibrated to your set already or they would line up nice to begin with - so you are correcting for your set at that broad upper level with rudimentry tools. On the flipside of that coin, adjusting them will essentially move some of the settings and other adjustments a bit since everything is essentially interconnected. Whether the other interconnected items get fixed or get moved farther away from where they should I would say is a crap shoot since as we know, the settings were made for a different panel.

So in a nutshell, whichever you like best matters most, but hands down you'd like the settings he performs exclusively on your set most

Well said and agreed. I would add that the Tint at -3 would concern me the most.

If anyone is on the fence about getting a calibration for their VT50, look no further than Jeff Meier. He calibrated my VT50 yesterday, and all I can say is WOW! Jeff has the equipment, the knowledge, and most important, the ability to bring the most out in your display.
Skin tones are real and lifelike, and the amount of detail in the picture is amazing. Even my wife, who normally doesn't pay a whole lot of attention to the quality of the television picture, could not believe the lifelike skin tones.
I, like pretty much everyone else on this forum, had plugged in various settings from other owners, and got what I thought was a pleasing picture. I guess I didn't realize how far from optimal those borrowed settings were. It reminded me of the allergy commercial, where everything is hazy until you take their product, then everything becomes crystal clear.
I was the first stop on Jeff's latest tour, and I could not be happier. Jeff is a pleasure to spend some time with, as he has a vast knowledge of not only calibration, but a wide variety of other subjects. When he left, I felt like an old friend was leaving, even though we had never met before.
I highly recommend Jeff.

Nothing beats a true calibration!

Jeff is a great guy...he's been out to my place twice now. Considering I'm an SF Giants fan and he a SL Cardinals fan, we had some interesting conversations last year. I came out ahead on that deal!

Hey D Nice drop me a line when you will be in NYC I have 65VT50. Would to see what you can do with it.

There are most likely more direct ways to contact DeWayne if you are serious about his services. Perhaps someone can hook you up.

I emailed D-Nice about his calibration request

If you don't hear anything in the next couple days, let me know.. I'll give him a call.

Thanks for your calibration report. I've included in the flat panel (post number two) lists that are linked in the signature area at the bottom of my post.

Here is D-Nice's email info@av-fi.com.

I was wondering if it was possible or even a good idea to be able to modify the "STANDARD" preset as an additional preset, besides using "CUSTOM". I believe there may be limitations if one were to customize the "standard" preset, things that are connected to that standard setting that might not allow it to be as functional as the "custom" preset. I am ready to change and add the D-Nice settings to the "custom" preset, but was curious if there was just as much control with making yet another customized preset by modifying "standard" one, since I don't like it's defaults anyways? THANKS.

Not unless you like watching TV in the dark, literally.

Care to explain?

I just mean it looks awful, I don't see any way you could fix it. Unless of course it's different on the VT than it is for every other model.

Buy ControlCal so you can unlock the ISF modes, this way you have 3 fully customizable modes and you don't have to fumble with the remote to put them in.

Hey all, im on my third replacement panny 65vt50...due to when I go to user settings and while not adjusting much I get snowy silver about 1/4 to 1/2 inch at diff edges of screen...when I cycle through modes of full h-fill zoom and back to native (full) the lines just move to diff edge but are there and sometimes triangle shaped where they start thick and then taper to a couple pixels but run the length of whatever edge they jump to...when I use any other preset mode, cinema, thx, anything other that user mode the lines are not there...Help? I do like how I can make the pic look good to me in the user settings but the lines around the edges are terrible...Im not above sea level and the techs can provide no explanation but simply tell me to swap it...thusly Im going on number three.

Maybe I was unclear in my question. Since you can edit the "standard" mode, as I assume, why could this not be used as another "custom" mode? Unless, as I stated, there are "conditions", like not being able to go deeper, as you can with the "custom" mode. I guess it's NOT a good idea, but since the standard mode does not look very good, been using THX, I guess I'll just put the D-Nice settings into "custom".

I've considered this option, but being on a Mac, having to use Boot Camp, or Parallels, not sure how well it will work, over the ethernet connection I have to the VT50. A MAC version would be great!

I know, but isn't one of the conditions that it's horribly dark? Sorry, I guess I'm missing something here.

Stupid question:
What video do you set? 'Custom'??
I didn't make any djustments to the adjustments beyond the first nine becasue I wanted to make sure I didn't mess anything up. Can you give me some advice?

It should work fine either way.

Hey all, im on my third replacement panny 65vt50...due to when I go to user settings and while not adjusting much I get snowy silver about 1/4 to 1/2 inch at diff edges of screen...when I cycle through modes of full h-fill zoom and back to native (full) the lines just move to diff edge but are there and sometimes triangle shaped where they start thick and then taper to a couple pixels but run the length of whatever edge they jump to...when I use any other preset mode, cinema, thx, anything other that user mode the lines are not there...Help? I do like how I can make the pic look good to me in the user settings but the lines around the edges are terrible...Im not above sea level and the techs can provide no explanation but simply tell me to swap it...thusly Im going on number three.

also wanna point out the input signasl are clean and direct...doesnt matter wha tthe source is.

Am I not posting this on the correct forum or page? SRY if so..But any guidance then or help much appreciated

Mike.

You're in the right owner's thread, but it's Sunday evening and maybe you are getting a little impatient. It's only been a little over an hour. Maybe no one who has read your post has an answer.

I can tell you that it's strange to me that you've had three consecutive sets with an identical problem. There may be some variable that you haven't mentioned.

Do you see these "snowy silver" edges when you are not in the User/Settings? Are they there when you watch TV, DVD, or Blu-ray sources?

^^ pictures would help too.

I'm speaking of "EDITING" the standard preset, I know it's dark, and hence a useless setting, so once again, the reason I posted my first question was if the standard preset "could be" edited and what if any downside or limits would there be?

Of course you can edit it. Won't do any harm. Its just like adjusting custom, vivid, game, etc. I don't believe it has all the available adjustments that custom offers though.

No reason you can't try it.

Thanks, that was my original question, if it did or did not have some of the available adjustments, if NOT, then it's not as useful as the "custom" preset, so I'll just use "standard" for messing around. I thought one of the forum calibrators might know what settings it did NOT allow you to access or change compared to "custom". Oh well.....

I assumed the brightness was capped for that setting, if you could make it have the contrast of Custom, that would be a different story. I didn't think anything like that was even possible though, is that something specific to the VT50?

In Standard, you don't adjust the Pro settings where in ISFccc and Custom you can.