Blurry player settings for calibration?

With picture mode set to normal and advanced chroma turned off the player should be bit perfect using 4:2:2, 4:4:4 or RGB. Use whichever setting your display is expecting and if you don't know this choose the one that looks the best.

Advanced chroma needs to be set to off otherwise the player will alter the video output.

The link below is for the BDT210 but also applies to your player.

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/images/stories/2011/september-2011/panasonic-dmp-bdt210-blu-ray-player/panasonic-dmp-bdt210-hdmi-benchmark-tables-lg.jpg

Panasonic didn't send me the 220 for test, so I can't say for sure it has an issue or not. Since I talked to other reviewers and they saw a visible change when using the setting I assume it's still wrong, but I can't be certain. I'd leave it off myself.

If there is no obvious difference between YCbCr modes and RGB modes, YCbCr 4:2:2 is the best mode to use... period. It delivers 12-bit video while the other options are all limited to 8 bits (discussed in other forum threads and is NOT what most people THINK happens -- most people think all format options are 8-bits unless you enable a higher-bit mode in the player... but that's not true). Even Lumagen, makers of the best video processors available in the consumer market, recommend 4:2:2 unless there is a compelling reason to use some other mode (like RGB looks better with some specific video displays).

In my experience, about 60% of the time, every mode looks identical. Somewhere around 5%-10% of the time, RGB looks better (video display determines this) and the remainder of the time YCbCr looks better. So you have a 90-95% chance of YCbCr 4:2:2 being the best option.

Hey Doug although I haven't tested it to much because of lack of patterns, but mine MIGHT have less black crush on pvr using rgb vs ycc4:4:4.Need to test a bit more.

Do you know which setting has more motion blur rgb or ycc4:4:4 ?