Owners ONLY thread - >>>KDS-A2000's<<< - Settings/Tweaks - Page 63

Rockytt, that's great to hear it was so straightforward to get 1080i with far greater resolution than I'm getting, although reading fonts from my couch, which ranges from 11' to 16' away, could then become an issue (I realize they could be adjusted).

I also realize that I may not ever get better resolutions to display with my older ThinkPads, see:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Proble...DVI_throughput

but any decent video card with DVI ought to get me good results with a variety of choices, based on your promising findings.

I'm kind of just buying time until I can get a DirectX 10 capable card on a Windows Vista machine, for decent Flight Simulator X performance in my family room. Perhaps it should have native HDMI out, as most new cards will.

Also thinking about the http://www.apple.com/appletv , which could act as a nice HDMI media extender for my iTunes and video libraries, coupled with my Xbox 360 and Wii, and Series 2 and 3 TiVos, would be able to display pretty much anything I want at that point. Hmm, well, then again, then there's the ability to someday play DVDs upscaled to 1080p via HDMI, ideally HD-DVD and BlueRay capable, but $1200 way too much:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-6147875.html

Then of course there's the HD camcorder I'll need, along with a way to store it's hard drive's recordings
http://gear.ign.com/articles/753/753740p1.html

so I guess I'm not quite there yet....

Hi i have a quick question. would the oppo981/hdmi give me much better quality than the xbox360/component for dvd playback, would the 360 output to 1080p?
Thanks.

1) Not much better - all that is happening is that the scalling would be going on inside of the 981 instead of the Sony.
2) The Sony won't take 1080p over component, only hdmi.

But our sony will upconvert it to 1080i from the 360 correct? Basically it would be 1080i vs 1080p?

That's correct - remember, the Sony has to display 1080p, so that anything you feed it is upconverted.

How do I set my SA8300 to do pass through? Will I have to change anything to my A2000 after doing this? Thanks

leave the tv on , turn the box off , push guide and info at the same time and hold(on the box). this should bring up a setup wizard on the screen that will allow you to change what resolutions the set supports.

then you can turn the box back on and with the remote push settings twice and scroll down to picture format.

it's been a while since i did this but i believe this is correct.

That may depend on the 8300's software (Passport or SARA). For SARA, the set-up wizard that you referred to just sets what the set can deal with. For the actual operation the regular settings menu allows you to set picture format and choose (for component connections) Fixed, Passthrough, Upconvert 1 or Upconvert 2. For HDMI connections the Passthrough setting is replaced by "AutoHDMI" (or something like it).

These are final settings of absolute perfection on my set imo.
I hope these help someone enjoy thier set as much as i enjoy mine

Custom
Iris-Medium
Picture Max
Brightness-45
Color-49
Hue-0
Color warm2
Sharpness-48
Noise reduction-off

ADV settings
Black correction-low
Gamma-low
Clear white-off
Live color-low
White balance-default
Detail enhancer- medium
edge enhancer-low

serialmike -- what about drc settings, power savings, white balance?...and what was the source and input that you used?...i.e was this set for dvds, hd tv, sd tv, etc?...how does your SD channels look?...thx...

do you guys feel like this would be worth the extra $500 over the sony 50e2000?? I dont have a ps3 orblu ray player..so I will be using this TV for satellite HD programing and Sd channels

I'm in search of some settings for "everyday" use -- combo of normal room lighting and something that'll work when the lights are down -- that are good across the board for DVD, HD TV -1080i, 720p, and especially SD - 480i...i am using a Pace 550 HD cable box via component (for now - going to dvi/hdmi when the cable gets here -- although the Pace box automatically converts 480i to 480p when you output thru their dvi to hdmi...cable provider is Time-Warner Central NY...

I've scoured these two threads and have tried a bunch of various settings and still haven't found the best SD settings...this would include DRC, cinemotion, noise reduction, and all the usual settings...

Many of the settings posted seem to be DVD based...yes - i know - that's still a good placed to leverage settings for cable tv input...

thx...pls post if you are very pleased with your SD settings...and pls post all settings...

settings for verizon fios via hdmi connection
Custom
Iris-Medium
Picture Max
Brightness-45
Color-50
Hue-0
Color warm2
Sharpness-48
Noise reduction-off

ADV settings
Black correction-low
Gamma-low
Clear white-off
Live color-low
White balance-default
Detail enhancer- medium
edge enhancer-low

DVD player via component cables
Custom
Iris-Medium
Picture Max
Brightness-50
Color-50
Hue-0
Color warm2
Sharpness-48
Noise reduction-off

ADV settings
Black correction-low
Gamma-low
Clear white-off
Live color-low
White balance-default
Detail enhancer- medium
edge enhancer-low

PC Via HDMI cables resolution 1216x684
Custom
Iris-Medium
Picture Max
Brightness-51
Color-50
Hue-0
Color warm2
Sharpness-48
Noise reduction-off

ADV settings
Black correction-low
Gamma-low
Clear white-off
Live color-low
White balance-default
Detail enhancer- medium
edge enhancer-low

Had a misprint on the color setting before correct is 50 not 49.
I would however recomment 49 if you like a little less color i love the in your face pop that 50 gives but the take a little off the top lok of 49 i can see pleasing alot if others eyes.

due to my experience with the xbr1 i DO NOT play with the DRC i find the defaults to be the best possible settings after months if messing with these. The SD is the only input that allows me to adjust the DRC and my SD looks so so good I havent watched SD in over a yr since i got hd and now between the fios and the better quality of SD on this set over the xbr1 SD looks alot like a laser disc now. I wish i could say how much i love the way the sd looks now over before fios and this set combination. I guess i already have with saying i used to not watch SD at all lol but it looks really really good for SD.

I do not see issue at all on my set for color and do not adjust the white balance at all. I find the colors of this set almost exactly match that of my dell 24 inch pc monitor (i use world of warcraft to make this judgement.) I Find the color to be perfect to me in that things that i see in real life are exactly the same color on tv. like say i see a fedex advertisment. the colors of the truck and logo are exactly that of ther real life truck. Also and an even bigger one to me is that peopel are exactly the right color. when i set up a camera the or take pics and put them on screen the people on camera or in the pics are an exact color representation on screen. the flesh tones and the colors oif everything in real life again are the same on screen. With that said i cant see any reason to adjust white balance.

Thanks Bob. No green is indeed GREAT! It is so nice to sit and watch the great pic on this display. Blu-ray on ps3 is 1080p heaven! Good luck in getting that right one, hopefully sooner than later.

On this thread of the forum, I think the answer is obviously, YES. After all, we all had the same decision to make and made it for the A2000.

Personally, I feel that the image of the 50A2000 is markedly superior to that of the E2000. When I was ready to buy the difference was closer to $1,000 and I'd really rather not have spent the extra money, but, I wanted the better image.

is the green blob problem something that shows up rigt away on a new TV of does it usually shows up months after?

So far the A-2000's don't seem to suffer from the full blown green blobs that the XBR1's are plagued with. (Remember that the A-2000 has only been out 4 or 5 months though, and the green blob could become a common issue down the road). The A-2000's do have some color uniformity issues though, but mostly of a mild nature. Hard to spot on most real program material, but irritating that it's not exactly right.

I discovered something intersting on my 60 A-2000 last night. I was already aware that the thing is sensitive to room temp in that the greenish, and pinkish areas on grey screen are much worse when the room temp has been 68 or less. I have been battling blueish blacks the past few weeks as well. I came home yesterday and popped a DVD in, and the black bars at top and bottom were VERY blue..ugh. Tried the other DVD player and it looked the same. The heat in my house runs 65 degrees while I am at work, and then goes up to 68 around 4:30pm. I tried jacking the heat up to 73. The blue blacks then looked much better like when I got the tv in early September! Not perfect, but much better. These sets are truly weird! I have to keep my house extra warm to get a good picture! At least I now know the set really hasn't changed since new..it just doesn't like being cold.

Alan: maybe you could try going to a garden center and get one of those little seed starter warming pads they sell then put it under your A2000 like an electric mattress pad to keep this baby warm enough that you don't have the color shift problems.

any new owners here have any problems with their set? Im hoping that sony fixed a most of the problems some are having.

I've had a 60A2000 since Nov. 30th. I have not had any problems with it at all, but did have to do a few adjustments to the settings.

The room the set is in goes unheated all night, and even from a cold start (58 degrees or so in the am) the color is perfect once the bulb warms to full intensity, usually about 2 or 3 minutes. During warmup the picture is sorta maroon/purplish but is perfect once the lamp reaches full brightness. The day the set was delivered the temp outside was 48 degrees, the set was ice cold to the touch and when turned on there was no color impurity or globs, just the discoloration until the lamp reached full brightness.

discoloration for 2-3 mins i can live with... im real close to buying one so anymore inputs on the "green blob" would be great

My experience is similar to Steve S...although I usually turn on the TV and walk out so I'm not around for the warmup.

I have never seen the green blob, glob or fog.

We use a KDS50A2000 at work to watch dailies of what we shot. I work in a film studio so the TV is used by clients for HD TV and by us to look at rushes in the early am.
Is there anyone who can help me with adjustments to help tone down the green that appears in the Key light areas of the frame... At times this can be three stops hotter than the rest of the scene and "clips" but does not show true white but a green hue.
Thanks in advance,
Woody

I think what you are really running into is white clipping - you are running out of red in peak whites (red gives out first) and you are seeing cyan. First, for commercial work, you should have your set properly calibrated. Until then, use the CNet settings and turn the Picture control down when you see this. If you are able to pause the offending frames, you will see the cyan sudden disappear as the control is turned down.

FWIW, the tech who came out to check out my August build A2000 with the green tinge problem told me that Sony sources some of the parts like the optical engines from different vendors in different countries during the course of the production run of a particular model. Makes me wonder if Sony has worked out some of the QC problems with the later build dated A2000s?

I also have the A2000 and a TIVO HD Series 3. When I select native resolution output, the screen will flicker between changing some channels and going to the TIVO menu. The menu screen for this setting states that some output formats can cause a flicker.

To avoid this, I set the output to 1080i. Do you have this same issue and just live with it or do you have a fix? Thanks for your help.

I had that problem too. I switched to "smart screen" in the TIVO video settings and it cured the problem with no adverse effects. Also, set the output to "native".

Or maybe you could just cover some of the vents. It generates enough heat that you should be able to keep some in the TV and not have to change the climate of your entire house.

Yes....it seems weird that the thing takes forever to warm up when being used. The bluish blacks take a couple of hours to go away if the room is around 68 degrees. While a properly working SXRD has a fantastic picture, I am starting to regret buying this thing. They just don't have the bugs worked out on them yet. Consumer Reports has recently hinted that DLP has the edge in overall PQ performance these days, unless you are bothered by rainbow effects like I am. Their full test of the newer SXRD's comes out next month.