The OFFICIAL Panasonic 26", 30", 34" WX15 HDTV Thread... - Page 2

I have the 26 inch and I figured out V RAS changes the Vertical Centering. All I need to know now is, how in the hell do you change the Horizontal centering? If I can get that the HDTV is perfect.

i just picked up this tv yesterday and adjusted mine to these settings. It definitely has enhanced the picture quality. What are you using as your "Pic Mode" setting. Standard?? Did you use a calibration disk to come up with these settings?

Anyone else care to contribute their settings?

I set all my setting to 31 in STANDARD mode just like how I set it for my Panasonic SDTV back then.

Edouble, isn't Brightness at 45 is a little high? You might get a chance of burn-in...

I calibrated it using DVE, I dunno. Picture isn't bright in the least though. Just the way the Contrast/Brightness tests turned out.

MGSVR, you seem a bit paranoid. 45 for brightness is fine. On a modern CRT, you literally would need to have contrast and brightness set to 70+, watching the same content for hundreds, if not THOUSANDS of hours to even have a chance at causing burn-in.

The only reason you hear about burn-in on CRTs anymore is because TV manufacturers add pre-cautions about it in manuals. And the only reason that they do that is for damage control. Just in case it were to happen to someone, however slim the chance, they can still say, "we told you so".

The only issue I'm having with mine, is it seems like the the image focus is a little off. I wish i knew how to fix that. Especially on text. Ideas on which setting i could edit?

Hmmmm so those setting from Edouble really enchanced the picture quality than the factory setting of 31 in STANDARD mode?

Hey, edouble...is the setting you have is in STANDAR mode?


Well some people in AVS here told me that 45 or above is a little high. So I be caution and set Brightness and Picture of mine to 31 just to be safe. Yes 31 is a little too dark. So 45 is okay eh? Okay, I'll set like the setting as Edouble.

To anyone with these models...how does standard 4:3 look on these sets? Also how is the stretch and zoom feature.



Sorry I dont have answer for your question but how does the XBox 360 look in Hi-Def on your TV?

I have the same issue. The horizontal centering is off on my set too. Any help on which setting to change would be appreciated.

Just picked up my CT-30WX15 last night. Out of the box it was nearly perfect, but I do get the "blurring" effect somewhat on text. Now, where do I get one of those calibration disks?

My old Samsung 27" 4:3 HD TV can't hold a candle to this Panny.

Now that i read this thread, I can't wait to play with the service menu. If I get a chance tonight, I will post the "defaults" and see where I can go from there.

This is definitely the best HD value out there right now.

Eric

For fun, I set Brightness to 42 last night and I lost a little black detail on DVDs, but colors did seem a little richer. Of course, I'm using the DVP-NS70H, which I think is a little bright out of the box. Not sure what I'll do. Didn't have time to watch any SD/HD so I'll look at that tonight. 45 does "seem" a little high, but for those who have adopted my settings, you'll notice that the picture is darker than normal, but still pretty detailed and true -- more film-like.

Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think it matters what "mode" you're in if you're calibrating it yourself. You're messing with the presets anyways, so what does it matter? Heh. Anyways, I messed with the Vivid mode and made it "mine" because I thought I may need Standard and Cinema down the road. Obviously I'm never going to watch anything in torch mode.

I got my 26wx15 into service mode just to have a look around. I noticed that the settings for the same function (V RAS for example) can be different depending on what resolution and mode (full, zoom, etc.) you are in, so make sure you write the mode down as well as the memory address and value for each setting before you change anything. If different modes can use different values for the setting then each mode will have a different memory address (the number to the left of the setting).

Hmm. Interesting. So are you saying that there are values in the SM that are different (besides things like brightness, picture, color, tint, etc.) that correspond to each mode (Standard, Cinema and Vivid)? If so, I may have to recalibrate.

You can get DVE (Digital Video Essentials) for ~$20 on Ebay.

I just bought my 26WX15 last night and boy let me tell you it's the best lookin' tv i've gotten EVER.

now, i am sort of a newb to HD so these are my understandings, i'd like to know if i am right about all this...

for my Xbox, component video cables so I can play games 480p, 720p and some 1080i, and how will I know what mode i am in..?

for HD channels, grab the HD tuner box from my digital cable provider..

and for my DVD player, also connent via component cables, or if I ever get a new one with the HDMI connection..?

these are probablly toal newb questions but you gotta start somewhere!

thanks!

I purchased the 30WX15 at CC on Monday and am just starting to learn about the TV. I did get a pretty good purchase price from CC. I had received some CC coupons in the mail and offered the 15% off digital TV coupon when I purchased the TV. It said no sale items, etc. on the back, but the salesman accepted it. Lo and behold: $510 purchase price...

edouble, sorry by mode I meant aspect, ie full, zoom, just, 4:3, I don't think the picture mode affects it but I didn't check. There are eight different combinations of resolution and aspect and I plan to write down all the settings for each.

I just got the HD pack as well. Go to your XBOX dashboard (turn on the console without a game), then go to video. There you'll set all the modes your TV supports, which are 480p and 1080i. Don't select 720p. Your xbox will then upconvert to the highest setting possible, given that each game varies.



You could do this, but I strongly recommend an upconverting player w/HDMI. Picture is substantially better with an upconverting player. The problem is that upconverting models are still new and there isn't a clear cut winner in this area...yet. I went with the Sony DVP-NS70H which has a slight image shifting problem but has otherwise outstanding PQ. I switched back and forth between HDMI and component last night and noticed a huge difference.

HPOS is for Horizontal Centering
HWID is for Horizontal width
VRAS is for Vertical width
VEAMP is for Vertical Centering

I did notice that when switching to 4:3 mode, the corners are bent outwards slightly. Is there a value in the SM like the "pincushion" feature on an LCD monitor?

I just got this TV the other day based on this site. First off I want to say that the TV has a great picture and after some calibration I have to say that even regular directv looks pretty good compared to the previous tv I had. I had a 32 inch philips 4:3 crt HD tv with the tuner built in and I returned it because the pq was pretty terrible. Especially with xbox and xbox 360 i would get this font problem where the fonts seemed to double up causing some kind of shadow. Now, the problem that I am noticing with this panasonic 30wx15 is that in xbox games i am noticing a problem where it seems like the ends of the fonts and some menus sort of extend beyond the font itself, causing some kind of shadow that is offset to the right of the original font/menu. IT is not very noticable, but noticable enough for me to be concerned. This is especially visible in high contrast scenes, and in the xbox dashboard itself. It is as if the fonts bleed to the right ever so slightly causing some kinda blur. DOes anyone know what this is called and if/how it can be fixed?

thanks ahead of time

*edit* this shadowing is also faintly visible on DVD's. My xbox and dvd connection is through component and when i watch a dvd the "shadowing" happens most when there is a person on screen and the background is light in color, solid in color, or white. It seems like there is a second very very faint image of the person a little to the right of the original image.

Can someone contribute their setting like the one Edouble has after they do calibration with DVE or Avia?

I'm not familiar with the Panasonic SM, but that's usually listed under parabola (H-PAR, etc).

Great, thanks.

IMPORTANT: The service mode settings are not per input, aka video 1 video 2, BUT they are for the input resolution aka 480i or 480p, or 1080i, and also to some extent, the zoom factor.

For everyone waiting for my default values, unfortunately I do not know which input and which zoom it is for... So i was trying to set my tv back to default values, but then I realized the picture was terrible. I was in 1080i and I think my default values were a mix of 480i zoom and 480i full! So I then my geometry was ALL screwed up i mean really bad. So last night i spent an hour trying to figure out the default values for each input and each zoom, settling the tilt back to 0 and everything. Now i have the verticle crop lines straight, but the horizontals are still tilted bad. Now that I am pretty sure it looks like when I first got it, I am taking it back to circuit city to show them the problems, and then try for an exchange or a refund, depending on if they have it in stock .

mattford11, I do not have any image focus issues as far as I can tell, the TV focus is impeccable. I also changed about every single thing in the service menu, and I could not get it out of focus. So it might not be something you can change there. Also it looks like your bottom ticker is a little bit off like mine, going into the left corner, only mine is much worse. How do your verticle crop lines look when you have 1080i coming in, only the broadcasters show a cropped 4:3?

Wow, that sucks J. Thanks for going to all that trouble. Hopefully you'll get a good unit when you return it.

Anyone?

Should I set the tilt to zero before I start changing geometry settings in the SM or should I set the tilt so that its level first?

I can also post my default values later (for the 26wx15), I plan to put them in a spreadsheet. I'll record them for every combination of input res and aspect. I should have it done tonight.

Does anyone have any of these CRT's hooked up to a XBox 360? If so how does it look being that it has to scale up?

Xbox 360 looks great, check out some of the pics i have

http://www.mattglennford.com/x1.jpg
http://www.mattglennford.com/x2.jpg
http://www.mattglennford.com/x3.jpg
http://www.mattglennford.com/x4.jpg