The Official Pioneer 8G KURO Owner's Discussions Thread - Page 578

Originally Posted by winston9332

in my humble opinion, no. I would look into a Samsung 860 or Panasonic G10 for that price frankly. I own two kuros (and have owned two previous to those), but am not brand-loyal. Kuros are hard to beat in a lot of ways, but a grand for a used 720p set whose technology is two and a half year's old is no deal in my book.

I really like my Samsung 860 although it can't get kuro black, but beats my 9G kuro in daytime viewing

Originally Posted by winston9332

in my humble opinion, no. I would look into a Samsung 860 or Panasonic G10 for that price frankly. I own two kuros (and have owned two previous to those), but am not brand-loyal. Kuros are hard to beat in a lot of ways, but a grand for a used 720p set whose technology is two and a half year's old is no deal in my book.

I really like my Samsung 860 although it can't get kuro black, but beats my 9G kuro in daytime viewing

Originally Posted by kinglm

i was reminded me of a question i had after recently installing a new comcast motorola hd dvr cable box. In the menu for the cable box settings, in the additional hdmi settings category, there is a color space setting with 2 options to choose from: Ycc 4:4:4 or rgb.

Which should i be using with my 8g kuro?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Originally Posted by eviltwincustoms

I have had my 5010 for a little over 2 years now and would like to make some adjustments to it. I saw a post for the 5080 where D-Nice did some updates for a customer and they were posted for the Movie setting.

Are their any updates for the 5010 by chance? If so, can someone point me to the Post Number? I did a quick search and nothing really stood out with the data.

I am currently using his original USER settings that were posted when the panel first came out. Now that it has had plenty of time for the phospers to burn in, I would like to see what can be done to the outstanding picture. I am very impressed with Pioneer and my 5010 with my Pio Elite 05FD Blu Ray is just killer!

Thanks for your assistance, and I have to say that I really like AVS. It has been very helpful. (in making me spend my money that is! LOL)

Originally Posted by hidefpaul

Hi guys, I had a glitch with my 8th Gen Pioneer 6010 Plasma.

The TV turned on OK, no flashing of power light ( usually indicates an internal malfunction) just a black screen as if the TV was off. I could call up the TV menus for picture/sound/ etc but no video from the sources. All HDMI.
I went to the manual and it said to just unplug the power cord for a couple of minutes.
Well, it worked all is normal and good again....
Has anyone had this happen to them before and what could have caused this is my real concern?

Thoughts anyone?

PS All components are plugged into a power surge/conditioner.

Paul

Originally Posted by hidefpaul

Hi guys, I had a glitch with my 8th Gen Pioneer 6010 Plasma.

The TV turned on OK, no flashing of power light ( usually indicates an internal malfunction) just a black screen as if the TV was off. I could call up the TV menus for picture/sound/ etc but no video from the sources. All HDMI.
I went to the manual and it said to just unplug the power cord for a couple of minutes.
Well, it worked all is normal and good again....
Has anyone had this happen to them before and what could have caused this is my real concern?

Thoughts anyone?

PS All components are plugged into a power surge/conditioner.

Paul

Originally Posted by BrianG007

Funny you brought this up. I had this happen to me this week. When I turned the TV it said something like "powering up, please wait" nothing ever happened so I turned the TV off and on and got the same symptoms as yours. Ended up unplugging the TV and plugging it back in and then it worked fine again. No problems for the last 5 days.

Originally Posted by jacksim

I have an 8G Elite 110 which was originally set up using D-Nice's base settings.

While watching the Stanley Cup Playoffs I've noticed a slow deterioration in brightness. The ice looks dirty-white -- almost a grey -- rather than a crisp bright white.

I know this set isn't LCD tech, but c'mon!

Is there something going wrong with this tv that should be addressed by a service call (1 1/2 into a 3 yr warranty), or are there special settings that I am unaware of that need retweaking?

The brightness has been cranked up near max. and the power mode is now set to Off (full power). The broadcast is CBC [OTA]

Originally Posted by jacksim

I have an 8G Elite 110 which was originally set up using D-Nice's base settings.

While watching the Stanley Cup Playoffs I've noticed a slow deterioration in brightness. The ice looks dirty-white -- almost a grey -- rather than a crisp bright white.

I know this set isn't LCD tech, but c'mon!

Is there something going wrong with this tv that should be addressed by a service call (1 1/2 into a 3 yr warranty), or are there special settings that I am unaware of that need retweaking?

The brightness has been cranked up near max. and the power mode is now set to Off (full power). The broadcast is CBC [OTA]

Originally Posted by skeet25

Good to see this thread has recent activity

My 2 year old 5010 has recently developed a problem with the tuner retaining the settings after scanning Ant A/Cable. Strangely, it is mostly the HD channels that get cleared from the listing. I would then rescan for the available channels and find all the expected ones.

In a day or two, the same channels would disappear again. The annoying part is that I cannot directly enter the channel if it is not in the listing. For example, my local Fox station in HD is 2.001. When it is in the listing, there is no problem accessing it using Favorites, channel up/down, or directly entering 2.001 using the keypad. Not so when the settings are lost, requiring a rescan.

Has anyone else experienced this issue?

What are my options for getting this repaired? Are boards/assemblies still available for 8g sets? Are there still Pioneer service techs?

Other than this recent problem, my 5010 has been great.

Originally Posted by Duck05

Have you tried completely powering down the panel (say for 5 minutes) and then plugging it back in??? This will "re-boot" the under lying Unix OS that manages the TV Guide software and is tightly coupled (too tightly if you ask me) to the tuner and channels.

Give it a try and let us know if that works....

Originally Posted by skeet25

By the way, how is this different from a Factory Reset from the service menu?

Originally Posted by Mathesar

Just wanted to say im still a very happy owner of a 5080HD, I bought it December 2007 and it's still performing the same as it did on day 1.

It gets used heavily for gaming & movies and the picture quality still impresses us and any visitors to this day, A group of us recently watched Avatar bluray (PS3) and various comments about how great it looked were made during the viewing.

Kudos to Pioneer for their obvious dedication to quality with these plasmas.

It's a real shame they had to stop producing them.

Originally Posted by Duck05

Our 2 8G non-Elites are still stellar for PQ. I recently had UMR (jeff) calibrate the 60" in the family room and the results were stunning.

Originally Posted by BrianG007

Funny you brought this up. I had this happen to me this week. When I turned the TV it said something like "powering up, please wait" nothing ever happened so I turned the TV off and on and got the same symptoms as yours. Ended up unplugging the TV and plugging it back in and then it worked fine again. No problems for the last 5 days.

Originally Posted by Duck05

By no means am I an expert on these panels, but owning two 8Gs and following these threads for a while you do see and hear about some strange behaviors.

One thing to remember is that there is a Unix operating system "under the covers" and once in a while it does need to be "re-booted" and the only way to do that is to completely unplug (our switch off the master power) the unit and restart it.....

Originally Posted by Mathesar

Just wanted to say im still a very happy owner of a 5080HD, I bought it December 2007 and it's still performing the same as it did on day 1.

It gets used heavily for gaming & movies and the picture quality still impresses us and any visitors to this day, A group of us recently watched Avatar bluray (PS3) and various comments about how great it looked were made during the viewing.

Kudos to Pioneer for their obvious dedication to quality with these plasmas.

It's a real shame they had to stop producing them.

Originally Posted by GAX279

Must be a full moon or something because the wife just called saying the blue light was on but there was no picture on our PRO-150FD (build date 10/07). Followed the advice offered here (unplugged for 5 minutes) and voila, picture is back. As she said, "WHEW!"

After 2.5 years of faithful service, this is the "only" issue I've ever had with it. Hopefully that's it because I'm still amazed at how wonderful the picture is (especially after UMR worked his magic on it).

Originally Posted by JakeK

Hi. I need some help. While rescanning for channels the display on my 5080 went black and the On LED light began flashing 8 times. I tried searching for this in this thread and in the 5070/5071 blinking light thread but couldn't get any hits. Does anyone know what the 8 blinks means? Thanks.

Originally Posted by JakeK

Hi. I need some help. While rescanning for channels the display on my 5080 went black and the On LED light began flashing 8 times. I tried searching for this in this thread and in the 5070/5071 blinking light thread but couldn't get any hits. Does anyone know what the 8 blinks means? Thanks.