This appears to be a revision of the tv mentioned in last year's model (thread 1162365) of the same set. The biggest difference I've seen is that the 120Hz has 4 steps now, [Off, Low, Medium, High]. Low is barely perceptible and is almost watchable. High is full-on soap-opera mode and makes me want to pluck out my eyeballs. Medium is the default and catches me at odd moments going "hmm, nice picture" and at other moments going "gah, how do i turn off this 120hz thing?"
I got the TV as a PSP replacement of my venerated Westinghouse TX-42F430S... which was a PSP replacement of the very first Westy 42" 1080p monitor (no tuner built-in). So i've had a good run in the 42" bracket over the last 4-5 years or so. I had to talk the salesman *up* from a $630 40" Toshiba (might have been either an on-sale 40RV525U or a cheaper model in the same chassis; I'm thinking it was the latter) he tried to foist on me as an "equivalent" model, but I argued him up to the Insignia due to screen size (42 vs 40), 2 more HDMI ports (Westy had 4), and the need for some side-mount HDMI and PC ports like my Westy had.
In any case, it cost me all of $5.10 to take the Insignia home (tax basis difference between 2 years ago and today) and so far I'm a happy camper. It's got a decent pic that I'm still tweaking. Was hoping for some help here as all I've got at home for calibration right now is old DVDs with THX Opti-Mode stuff (and I don't even have the color glasses
).
Has anyone done an ISF on one of these panels?
Any guidance as to what the near-optimum settings are via the user-accessible controls are?
Any tips on accessing the service menu for finer control?
Thanks in advance!
I got the TV as a PSP replacement of my venerated Westinghouse TX-42F430S... which was a PSP replacement of the very first Westy 42" 1080p monitor (no tuner built-in). So i've had a good run in the 42" bracket over the last 4-5 years or so. I had to talk the salesman *up* from a $630 40" Toshiba (might have been either an on-sale 40RV525U or a cheaper model in the same chassis; I'm thinking it was the latter) he tried to foist on me as an "equivalent" model, but I argued him up to the Insignia due to screen size (42 vs 40), 2 more HDMI ports (Westy had 4), and the need for some side-mount HDMI and PC ports like my Westy had.
In any case, it cost me all of $5.10 to take the Insignia home (tax basis difference between 2 years ago and today) and so far I'm a happy camper. It's got a decent pic that I'm still tweaking. Was hoping for some help here as all I've got at home for calibration right now is old DVDs with THX Opti-Mode stuff (and I don't even have the color glasses

Has anyone done an ISF on one of these panels?
Any guidance as to what the near-optimum settings are via the user-accessible controls are?
Any tips on accessing the service menu for finer control?
Thanks in advance!