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post #121 of 2813
10/1/06 at 3:36pm
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Originally Posted by russwong View Post

Plus I don't like the non-removable bottom mounted speaker on the 5070 add the network capabilities and it was an easy decision for me.

Correction: the bottom-mounted speaker bar on the 5070/5071 is in fact removable. It says as much in the 5070's PDF spec sheet, and yesterday at Best Buy I saw a 5071 with its speaker bar detached and lying on the shelf in front of it.

The 4270's speaker bar is not detachable though.
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post #122 of 2813
10/1/06 at 3:47pm
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Originally Posted by Topper76 View Post

Correction: the bottom-mounted speaker bar on the 5070/5071 is in fact removable. It says as much in the 5070's PDF spec sheet, and yesterday at Best Buy I saw a 5071 with its speaker bar detached and lying on the shelf in front of it.

The 4370's speaker bar is not detachable though.

Interesting, as Pioneer's website seems to indicate differently. It says: Speakers - Included (fully integrated bottom) vs on the 1140HD it says: Detachable Side Speakers - Included

Good to know though...
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post #123 of 2813
10/1/06 at 9:37pm
Just in case anyone was interested - I noted Pioneer has finally posted official MSRP's on the 940 and 1140 on their web site. Seems original pricing (unlisted MSRP) on the 1140 was about $500 above the now posted MSRP. Maybe this means they have settled on a price for a while?
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post #124 of 2813
10/2/06 at 10:57am
Just picked up my Pioneer Elite 1140HD the other day. After much debate and viewing between the Sony XBR3 and Pioneer 1140HD, I just had to go with the Pioneer due to a few factors including the color, black depth, and quality of the look during fast actions scenes and explosions (aka motion blur).

This is my first plasma tv ever and I wanted to ask for some advice from those in the know of where I should start on these forums for information and tips surrounding owning a plasma tv, specifically the Pioneer 1140HD. I've touched on some of the topics such as the faq, burn-in time and pure mode but other than that I haven't gone much farther than this thread. Looking forward to D-Nice's setting post (have had some trouble locating the other posts with the information for the 1140HD settings). Consider me a noob at Plasma but a previous owner of a LCD.

Any advice or direction on Plasmas and the 1140HD would be appreciated.

My current setup:
Pioneer 1140HD Plasma TV
Denon AVR-3806 - 7.1 CH Home Theater A/V Surround Receiver
Polk Audio SurroundBar (Originally puchased for our smaller townhouse)
Polk PSW303 - Powered Subwoofer
JVC Progressive Scan DVD Player (Looking to buy a higher end DVD Player)
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post #125 of 2813
10/2/06 at 11:48am
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Originally Posted by edklite View Post

OK I kinda figured out what the problem was I think, the digital channels and the regular channels don't look right unless I set my cable box to show them in 480i in 480p or 720p or 1080i they look like crap.

anyways I'm not impressed with this pro 1140, and I am changing it with a fhd1, I hope that one meets expectations

Sounds like a GIGO source situation. And from what I've read in the FHD1 forum, the 1080 is gonna make a bad source situation even more noticeable because of its increased detail. Use caution.
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post #126 of 2813
10/2/06 at 2:59pm
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I don't think there is any special advice, other then the early burn-in settings.

Still some things to be validated:

- 1080i or 720p better for the display (I'm using both and can't seem to tell the difference.)
- VGA vs HDMI for HTPC (I'm using HDMI, because I'm feeding my xbox via VGA now.)
- ISF calibration might be of great help, I'm planning to have it done in Nov.
- versions of home media gallery

That's it so far I think.... all in all, I really like the TV. I just mounted it yesterday. I'll take some pictures once it's done.

Russ

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Originally Posted by Poise View Post

Just picked up my Pioneer Elite 1140HD the other day. After much debate and viewing between the Sony XBR3 and Pioneer 1140HD, I just had to go with the Pioneer due to a few factors including the color, black depth, and quality of the look during fast actions scenes and explosions (aka motion blur).

This is my first plasma tv ever and I wanted to ask for some advice from those in the know of where I should start on these forums for information and tips surrounding owning a plasma tv, specifically the Pioneer 1140HD. I've touched on some of the topics such as the faq, burn-in time and pure mode but other than that I haven't gone much farther than this thread. Looking forward to D-Nice's setting post (have had some trouble locating the other posts with the information for the 1140HD settings). Consider me a noob at Plasma but a previous owner of a LCD.

Any advice or direction on Plasmas and the 1140HD would be appreciated.

My current setup:
Pioneer 1140HD Plasma TV
Denon AVR-3806 - 7.1 CH Home Theater A/V Surround Receiver
Polk Audio SurroundBar (Originally puchased for our smaller townhouse)
Polk PSW303 - Powered Subwoofer
JVC Progressive Scan DVD Player (Looking to buy a higher end DVD Player)
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post #127 of 2813
10/2/06 at 3:54pm
Which D-Nice settings did you use for the 1140HD Russ? I found a few for other Pioneers but could not locate D-Nice's settings for the 1140HD.
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post #128 of 2813
10/2/06 at 3:55pm
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Originally Posted by omeletpants View Post

Turn off all the noise reduction settings then turn color down to -10 and the picture comes alive. I had the same issue and was very unhappy at first. The Elite picture is way too saturated at normal settings. Even at -10 on the color it throws out more color than other plasmas

??? Uhm, not for me. I tried these settings and they are blah. I calibrated my set to the DVE disc and it is incredible.
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post #129 of 2813
10/2/06 at 3:58pm
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Originally Posted by Poise View Post

Which D-Nice settings did you use for the 1140HD Russ? I found a few for other Pioneers but could not locate D-Nice's settings for the 1140HD.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=731242
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post #130 of 2813
10/2/06 at 3:59pm
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Originally Posted by essogas View Post

??? Uhm, not for me. I tried these settings and they are blah. I calibrated my set to the DVE disc and it is incredible.

Where did you end up on both color and contrast?
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post #131 of 2813
10/2/06 at 4:03pm
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Originally Posted by D-Nice View Post

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=731242


Oh boy. I'm about to go try these settings out. Can I state what I think or keep them to myself?
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post #132 of 2813
10/2/06 at 4:05pm
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Originally Posted by essogas View Post

??? Uhm, not for me. I tried these settings and they are blah. I calibrated my set to the DVE disc and it is incredible.

NEVER use DVD settings with HD sources (and vice versa). The different color spaces throw everything out of whack.
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post #133 of 2813
10/2/06 at 4:06pm
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Originally Posted by omeletpants View Post

Where did you end up on both color and contrast?

Please try your NR on "mid", Contrast at 33 and color at +12!!! I'm not a color saturation whore but this is where the color needs to be to make a proper "blue check" and the contrat is at 33 which just shows 7 units of video black.
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post #134 of 2813
10/2/06 at 4:08pm
Thanks a ton D-Nice. I'll try these out asap. Debating on picking up the new Pioneer DV46AVi DVD player. Is it safe to assume the DVD settings you provided for the 79AVi would be a good start for setting that up?
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post #135 of 2813
10/2/06 at 4:09pm
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Originally Posted by essogas View Post

Oh boy. I'm about to go try these settings out. Can I state what I think or keep them to myself?

If you like them or hate them, please only post your comments once
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post #136 of 2813
10/2/06 at 4:10pm
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Originally Posted by essogas View Post

Please try your NR on "mid", Contrast at 33 and color at +12!!! I'm not a color saturation whore but this is where the color needs to be to make a proper "blue check" and the contrat is at 33 which just shows 7 units of video black.

I've found the same thing using DVE. DVE say +18 and I say +2 to keep the colors sane and "lifelike". To each his own.
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post #137 of 2813
10/2/06 at 4:11pm
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Originally Posted by Poise View Post

Thanks a ton D-Nice. I'll try these out asap. Debating on picking up the new Pioneer DV46AVi DVD player. Is it safe to assume the DVD settings you provided for the 79AVi would be a good start for setting that up?

Should be ok, however there is no guarantee.
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post #138 of 2813
10/2/06 at 4:39pm
Hey D-Nice, tried your settings out for the 1140 with the 8300 cable box. I thought for the most part they were really nice and were VERY close to my own settings, in fact. The only rhing, in my opinion, was I saw a distinct magenta push with these settings. I checked the settings again and saw why: -6 on green and +3 on magenta.

I think the biggest most sweeping thing I'm finding for my preference for some reason against all logic is I realy like my brightness WAY down on this set, like at -9
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post #139 of 2813
10/2/06 at 4:48pm
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Originally Posted by essogas View Post

Please try your NR on "mid", Contrast at 33 and color at +12!!! I'm not a color saturation whore but this is where the color needs to be to make a proper "blue check" and the contrat is at 33 which just shows 7 units of video black.

We couldn't be more different. You have color at +12 and I have it at -10. I origionally had the color at +10. At that setting the picture looks like a bad cartoon. At +12 the color is bleeding all over itself with no definition. Just shows people like different things
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post #140 of 2813
10/2/06 at 4:49pm
Your right about the green and magneta.....typo as I copied the 930/1130 settings. The post has been corrected.

You use a -9 brightness setting on the 8300? That's definately crushing the blacks. Try turning your Contrast to 18 and putting the brightness at -3 or -2.
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post #141 of 2813
10/3/06 at 6:46am
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Originally Posted by omeletpants View Post

We couldn't be more different. You have color at +12 and I have it at -10. I origionally had the color at +10. At that setting the picture looks like a bad cartoon. At +12 the color is bleeding all over itself with no definition. Just shows people like different things

I guess so. But you could have saved yourself alot of money and bought a B&W TV.
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post #142 of 2813
10/3/06 at 8:42am
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Originally Posted by essogas View Post

I guess so. But you could have saved yourself alot of money and bought a B&W TV.


That was a good one. lol
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post #143 of 2813
10/4/06 at 10:51am
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Well, I spent last weekend mounting my plasma with a help of a friend. The goal was to hide the cables and make my own version of the panamax power product. Seems to have worked for me...

Discovery HD continues to be amazingly stunning for me. Here are some poor pictures, but I'm not sure how people take these amazing pictures of their plasmas.
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post #144 of 2813
10/4/06 at 10:52am
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So I'm pretty happy so far...
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post #145 of 2813
10/4/06 at 11:16am
I haven't been able to uncover any info from Pioneer about the life expectancy of the 7th gen plasmas. A salesman told me it was 100,000 hours (40 years or something). I imagine this is hooey. Is there an improvement in longevity, apart from everything else?
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post #146 of 2813
10/4/06 at 11:23am
60,000 hours phosphor half life
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post #147 of 2813
10/4/06 at 11:47am
. . . or way WAY longer than any of us will keep them!
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post #148 of 2813
10/4/06 at 4:43pm
Why don't we start posting our settings so we can all try them out...
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post #149 of 2813
10/4/06 at 7:07pm
Hi, I just got an 1140 last week. Totally love the HD, but SD isn't that great. I was wondering whether, while using only a cable box, if any of you have separate settings(separate video inputs) for SD from HD, or whether you set your tv up so that the settings stay the same for all stations whether they are SD or HD(i.e. receiving all over a single hdmi cable)? At the moment its not clear whether my comcast box can output two different ways in parallel or not, but I would still like to know how SD can be optimized while not sacrificing the quality of the HD settings. The only signal source I have is cable through the comcast box and cable circumventing the comcast box(via splitter).
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post #150 of 2813
10/5/06 at 7:56am
^^ I don't think you can have two setting comin g from one source. I'm trying to figure out how to have separate setings for various sources.
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