The official Toshiba 62MX196/72MX196 OWNER'S THREAD - Page 8

The white line is not normal. Is it on all sources, i.e. DVD's and SD as well? If so its a problem with the set. If not, its probably the source.

The source is a Pace cable box provided by my local cabel provider. I don't see the lines on all HD channels..I noticed it on one ,,,then a few minutes later it was on another. But the rest of the HD channels are fine...so far.

I have not yet hooked up the DVD...will try and see.

Can anyone comment on whether there is a hum audible from your viewing position?

This would be different from fan noise, but can the fan noise be heard as well from your seat?

Shelly

I sit 13 feet from my TV and there is no hum nor can I hear the fan noise.

Of course, I forgot to mention that I'm deaf. (Just kidding. I can never pass up an obvious joke. It's an addiction of mine )

I sit about 15' away and sometimes I can hear it in very quiet scenes.

Has anyone tried to reduce the overscan on their set? I took a look at the HDNet test pattern and it showed 6%-8% overscan on my 62MX916. My HLP Samsung only has 2%-4% on the same pattern.

bslep, do you know if this was something Eliab was able to adjust in the service menu?

I just found yet another great review of the HM/MX196 over at Sound and Vision. He really liked the high level of detail, and great black levels. Issues are the usual way to cool color out of the box, and of course rainbows. He also points out the set resolves all lines in a 1080i test pattern.

"Test patterns confirmed that the 62HM196 could resolve every detail of a 1080i signal, a feat few other 1080p DLP HDTVs can match."

Will folks who claim "wobulated 1080P isn't 1080P" ever get a clue?

http://www.soundandvisionmag.com/hdt...-dlp-hdtv.html

Does anyone now what the settings are called to adjust greyscale in the service menu?

And has anyone had any experience with using spyder and radar's or calman's spreadsheet.

I hooked up a Toshiba SD-6980 through HDMI and ran some 1920x1080 JPEG test patterns for HDTV's on my 62HM116 (62HM196) using the DVD player's HD JPEG output feature. The 1080 resolution chart does indeed fully resolve down to the single pixel level both horizontally and vertically. Mine has 2.5% overscan all the way around, which is what everyone else has reported on these sets.

Last time I checked you can't trust HDNet's overscan pattern. And as far as I know in the service menu you can only shift HPOS and VPOS in the menu.

Thanks. I will check what I get with DVE as well.

For the record, I tried a 62HM196 with Smash Bros. and can confirm that there is a minute amount of lag, even with game mode. If I hadn't played Smash Bros on a standard TV before playing it on the Toshiba, I wouldn't have noticed the lag, but because I had that comparison, there was definitely some there.

Again, though, the lag was very, very minute, even more so with Game Mode turned ON. If you aren't the type to notice lag, or if you don't play timing-based games, you probably won't notice the lag at all. But if you're anal about HDTV lag times, you might want to head to your local Best Buy, or equivalent, and try out this TV before buying it.

After playing Madden for a month w/ game mode turned off I kept yelling at David Carr for not getting rid of the ball quick enough after I could swear I got it off. So last night I decided to turn game mode on and could swear I was getting rid of the ball quicker, but its so minute that its hard to tell.

It couldn't be David Carr's fault.

How much of a price drop? When did they do that? Is it the $2499 price? Just curious. Went to Costco out here in Arizona and it is still $2499.

Finally got my 62hm196 few days ago. The HD PQ is great after very sample calibration. The DVD PQ is great by using a sony DVP75H DVD player. The DN SD PQ is nice far beyond my expectation. My view distance is about 9-10ft. My wife and I don't see any RBE,SSE and never feel dizzy at all. Only downside is that the original stand has a beam right in the middle so I can put my center speaker on the stand. I have to put it on top of my set, good luck, my sony speaker is not very big. Other than that the set is perfect. But I have two questions when I am doing the calibration.

1. Does anyone can tell me how to get into service menu to do some indeep calibration and check the bulb life?
2. I understand that better to calibrate every input indivadully because they have different types of input singnal. For DVD input, I have a THX DVD, so it's easy to play with. But for HDTV input and DN SD input, you're not able to use that type of DVD. I'm wondering how can I do the calibration?
3. I don't have a blue glassess for THX calibration. Does anyone know is there any work around to turn the set without this glassess?

Mee too. I sit about 9-10ft and can hear hum in quiet scenes especially in late night.

Yes, Eliab did adjust the overscan when he calibrated the TV. I didn't ask, though how much of an adjustment was made. Perhaps you can post in the Calibration Displays forum and someone can tell you how to do it.

There is a very minute amount of lag even on 360.

I had the 46hm95 before the 62mx196 and i dont even hear this fan, while the hm95 would produce a hum.

I just came back from BB where I spent an hour playing with the 62HM196. If I buy Toshiba, it will be the MX model for sure.

The HM was sandwiched between the Sony 60A2000 and the Sony XDR1. Tey ran the sqame HD loop through all sets, and all sets were on Vivid or Sports mode for the highest contrast.

It was apparent to me that the Toshiba was pushing yellow, not only in the BB logo but in flesh tones. Without any color management, I reduced the tint by -10 to get the flesh tones to look the same as the Sony sets (which had too much red in them due to the Sony's red push, probably.

But aI would hate to have to compensate for inaccurate color tint by using the Tint control so dramatically. I am reassured by your post that lowering the yellow was able to corect the flesh tones as well without compromising the other colors.

My only concern with the Toshiba (again this was the HM with the BB loop feed) was that it had more noise in the picture than the Sony's. Not in every scene on the loop, but in some (and the Sonys also have video noise but as much.) I stood 10' from the screenwhich is my viewing distance at home.

I am hoping that this is just a reflection of the loop being fed and not of the Toshiba inherently or could it be the larger screen size (62 vs 60).

Feedback on the video noise, please?

Thanks.

Shelly

How do you check it?