Official Panasonic AE2000 thread - Page 107

I bought most of my gear through ABT Electronics.
They matched the Visual Apex price of 2599 for the projector and did a 4 year warranty for $250.

Given a single repair would be upwards of $400 its worth it.
Both my DLPs boards went south near the 3 year mark and the LCDs in my old panasonic were so out of convergence it was like watching a 3D movie.
Maybe I have bad luck but the warranties on my projectors saved my butt.

Dust blobs update: I had a fair number of dust blobs crop up in my ceiling-mounted unit after a few months, so I followed the cleaning guide and did a thorough job twice, and it removed some of the dust, but not all of it. I sent it in to get cleaned and when it came back there was one big annoying blob, which was actually taken care of by the compressed air (yay). I duct-taped an air register filter over the exposed intake and I've been living dust-blob free for 2 months now.

I just started noticing something similar on the projected image this week-end. I bought my PJ in december and have around 180 hours of projection. The problem is really linked to the lack of red color, it's very visible on white background, where a cyan color is visible, and on red where the red turn to black.
The main difference in my case is that the rectangle does not start at the bottom of the screen, but at around 4" from the bottom and extends for about 4" in height. My projector is also ceiling mounted.
Do you think this is the same problem in my case as the blob does not start at the bottom of the screen?

Hi all,

Am about to trigger on this next week from J&R (and import to Fiji).
Is it likely that this would be new stock with fixes?

Cheers

I'm going to invest in a new PJ this coming fall and since my PT-AE300u has served me well, I'm seriously leaning towards the PT-AE2000u. One deal breaker though that is killing me... why doesn't Panasonic offer a remote with seperate on and off's? Unless someone knows something that I don't... you can't program this either (using a Pronto for the entire system). This is a serious problem as I rely on the user friendlyness of the remote to just make it all work with minimal knowledge. So far, I have a list taped to the wall with a clear order what components to turn on in order for my wife to watch a movie... not an acceptable solution for the future.

I don't know about Pronto but the Harmony can turn the unit off by sending two separate commands.

You let your wife touch the remotes??? You are braver than I ever will be.

jdtx
If you look at the bottom of the rectangle, can you see a line that goes all the width of the screen? If yes, I think that, your have one of the filters in front of the LCD panel that has slided down (because it is ceiling mounted) more than in my case, and this line would be one edge of the filter. Remember that the filters has no frame to hold them vertically when the PJ is ceiling mounted (except for the faulty sticky ribbons).
If you are not very capable at these tasks and you are still covered with a warranty, it is better to send it to repair.
Sorry to read that my PJ is not the only one with this defect.
Sorry for my English too
Fernando

If the Harmony remote can send discreet on/off commands, than the Pronto would be able to do the same thing. This is very encouraging! There's hope.

And yes, the wife is allowed to use the remote. Guess that comes with the sponsorship... she has after all paid half of everything in there.

Ok. Thank you

Ok. Thank you

Hello. No, sorry, my previous description was not precise. It doesn't send discrete on/off for the panasonic. It sends the same power command two separate times in order to turn it off - the same as pressing the power switch twice. Without too much effort my harmony is single button activation for a receiver, xbox360, HD PVR, or Oppo dvd player. On activation it sets the receiver input properly and sets the panasonic input to either component or hdmi. On single button off it turns off every component including the projector.

I haven't tried it but additional control such as specifying the exact input, i.e. component 1 or 2, or hdmi 1, 2, 3 may require multiple code sequences. I also anticipate difficultes with selecting user defined presets, though perhaps the shortcut keys may be used?

regards

so this is my biggest complaint with this projector (and it's pretty minor), there are no specific input commands, there are specific input type commands, HDMI, component, etc but then you have to resend that same input command to select that actual input you want. What this means is there is no way to turn on the projector and go to HDMI2 for since you have no way of knowing what the last HDMI input selected was.
For instance if I am on HDMI 3 and send a change input HDMI command it would take me to HDMI1, however if I was on HDMI1 it would take me to HDMI2. This means my hormony remote is unable to 100% successfully select the right input for the activity I select, this is really not a big deal for me as I can select the device submenu and simply hit change hdmi the correct number of times to get the input I want but this is a problem for my wife and kids.....seems like a obvious shortcoming in the remote command set??

I don't know much about the harmony in terms of learning functions but the remote that comes with the ae2000 has the 3 function buttons programmed to go directly to each of the HDMI inputs when in the "projector" preset. this leads me to believe there is a way to do it, you just need to find it.

Has anyone tried these settings they used the in the April issue of Home Theater Magazine on their 2000U?

Picture Mode: Color1
Contrast: +8
Brightness: +4
Color: 0
Tint: 0
Sharpness: -1
Color Temperature: 0
Dynamic Iris: On
Advanced Menu
Gamma High: 0
Gamma Mid: 0
Gamma Low: 0 or -1
Contrast R: 0
Contrast G: 0
Contrast B: +2
Brightness R: 0
Brightness G: 0
Brightness B: +1
NR: 0
MPEG NR: 0
Detail Clarity: On
Overscan: 0
Keystone: 0
HDMI Signal Level: Normal
Lamp Power: Normal

I don't think you can power on to a specific input. There might be an auto-detect, so if it senses a signal from a single specific port it will switch to that when it comes on.

However the three buttons under the LCD panel on the remote can be programmed to do whatever you want - change picture presets, switch to a specific input, whatever.

Perhaps I could set the ae2000 remote buttons and then "learn" the harmony to repeat those signals....I believe I tried this initially (its been 6 months) and it did not work but it is worth a try again....however this chain of logic would lead me to believe that there a specific input commands.....possibly???

Agree that the remote command set is somewhat limiting.

In my setup all of the video switching is done externally with an autosensing HDMI switch and Component switching through the receiver. In this situation I only use a single component or single hdmi to the projector. I program the harmony to select hdmi or comp as appropriate for the device when an input is switched. The projector 'remembers' the last input used and always enables it. It works for me. If I were to manually switch it to component 2 say, then I would have to manually switch it back in order to get it all working nicely again.

I played around with it a bit. I'm not sure if there is an auto-sensing. There's an 'auto search' under options. I should check the manual, but this doesn't resolve to an active input? Also, when the harmony sends a 'Comp' to the pj for Component it effectively toggles from one component input to the other, so this doesn't work either. I don't believe that the harmony supports a Comp#, though perhaps it's only because no one has identified it yet.

Good luck.

I have a Kona 3 and I'm trying to feed my panasonic ae2000 a 10 bit 23.98psf
signal (which the specs say it supports) and am not getting good results. The bottom 10percent of the screen artifacts. Has there been any headway on this??

Did you ever get this tuned correctly? I just got the blu-ray DVE disc yesterday and I ran into the same problem.

btw, on the brightness/contrast PLUGE, can you see the 3rd (outmost) bars? I can't see those. Thanks.

I can't seem to find any mention of the ae2000u in the April issue of Home Theater Mag.?

It's in the June issue, http://www.hometheatermag.com/frontp.../608pana2000u/

bguzman

Here are a couple screenshots of my Panny after calibrating with the AVIA disc.

For you AE2000 owners....I want to buy my first PJ and am considering the ae2000 over the epson 1080ub mainly due to the power focus and zoom and need your feedback. I am going to use a Parkland Screen and was thinking of mounting the entire 4X8 sheet on my wall so that I could use it both for 16:9 (48 in high) but with white on the sides until I power zoom to the full 8 foot width for 2.35:1 movies.

Does that sound like a good plan or am I missing something? (PS I have a well light controlled basement and will ceiling mount).

Thanks

the only thing that might annoy you is that, while the zoom is motorized and controlled by the remote, the vertical lens shift is not. since the baseline for the zoom is the top edge of the screen, as you zoom in, the image will expand downward requiring you to then get up and manually adjust the vertical shift.

I did it this way before my lens arrived and even now, the lens adds a slight bit of vertical shift so as some point, I always need to perform SOME manual adjustment.

Nice pics Fosheezy! I've been on the fence with this projector for quite a while now - basically because I haven't seen and screenshots that compare favorably to the DLPs (which won't work for me due to RBE sensitivity). Yours are the first that I've seen that do so. Apologies to others who may have posted 2000U screenshots.... I've been looking, just haven't found many.

Post more FoSheezy!!

So let me get this straight. If I ceiling mount and fix my 16:9 image at the top of the screen I can zoom in for 2.35:1 material and the picture will expand toward the bottom...all while the top of the 2.35 image stays at the top of the screen? It seems like 2.35:1 material would have a black bar between the screen top and image by default.

Which one is it?

Thanks!!

Im still trying to figure out the best settings on the camera for taking screenshots.
I will play with it more tonight.
The pictures dont do it justice. Pausing it makes it a little blurry.
Now that I think about it, maybe I will do the screen freeze thing that the projector does.
I think that takes a quick snapshot of the image-probably better than pausing the film.

Thank you...

Funny thing is I read that magazine cover to cover every month and in May I was very busy with work when it arrived and I put it with my old copies and forgot all about it. I ended up purchasing my AE2000 in the middle of June and never knew about this write-up until now....