[rfic]

panasonic just release their Avatar 3D, and there's a link claimed as "James Cameron's Preferred Settings" for VT25


has anyone tried it and what's difference between this setting vs D-NICE's setting?


i'm not allow to post link here, so just search panasonic 3d avatar

 

[saprano]

D-nice vs cameron? lovely.


Pretty sure thats all PR talk anyway.


Heres the link to his settings

http://panasonic.net:80/avc/viera/us...ealSettings#vt

 

[Goatse]

JC doesn't watch no 65inch tv. Hes got a 300 person theater built in his replica of the titanic.

 

[Fox1966]

So has anyone tried these out yet?

 

[ratm]



Quote:
Originally Posted by Goatse /forum/post/0


JC doesn't watch no 65inch tv. Hes got a 300 person theater built in his replica of the titanic.

Maybe in front of one of his crappers he might...

 

[Frohlich]

Step 4 says:


The figure for the 65/58VT30 is "+95".


Is this a typo or a hint of the next model to be released

BTW, I am sure he has "people" who calibrate his video equipment. I have a hard time believing he is ISF certified...I am just saying. I hope his 473 million dollar payday from Avatar was enough to spring for one of these fancy dancy VT25 series plasmas...with THX

 

[Sstixrud]

I had my vt25 professionally calibrated and I am wondering if I can just restore the service menu settings and get the same 2d white level and colors post firmware upgrade?


Has anyone tested to see what exactly this avatar "firmware" does? It seems odd a firmware would significantly change image quality / service menu defaults...

 

[Drew220]



Quote:
Originally Posted by Sstixrud /forum/post/19578989


I had my vt25 professionally calibrated and I am wondering if I can just restore the service menu settings and get the same 2d white level and colors post firmware upgrade?


Has anyone tested to see what exactly this avatar "firmware" does? It seems odd a firmware would significantly change image quality / service menu defaults...

The warning on the download page says that you cannot restore previous image quality after installing the firmware update.

 

[Fox1966]

I wonder what that statment means, though..."cannot restore previous image quality"? Since this is a firmware update, doesn't that mean that it is changing or adding something? If it was was just changing settings, then those could be changed back in some way, so isn't this something more than that? I've been trying to find evidence of what this does all morning by searching the net, and have been unsuccessful. I'm dying to know if this is something that will in some way improve image quality when watching all movies. This new firmware is 3.5, the one I have now is 3.0, so has anyone seen what the changes are? Usually, I upgrade to the newest firmware on just about everything (I thought that was always suggested, as firmwares are usually improvements or fixes in some way, correct?), but would like some more information first.

 

[Drew220]



Quote:
Originally Posted by Fox1966 /forum/post/19580982


I wonder what that statment means, though..."cannot restore previous image quality"? Since this is a firmware update, doesn't that mean that it is changing or adding something? If it was was just changing settings, then those could be changed back in some way, so isn't this something more than that? I've been trying to find evidence of what this does all morning by searching the net, and have been unsuccessful. I'm dying to know if this is something that will in some way improve image quality when watching all movies. This new firmware is 3.5, the one I have now is 3.0, so has anyone seen what the changes are? Usually, I upgrade to the newest firmware on just about everything (I thought that was always suggested, as firmwares are usually improvements or fixes in some way, correct?), but would like some more information first.

It also says that it changes all modes including custom ISF, except for the vivid setting. For some reason they left Vivid alone.

 

[Fox1966]

That's the one mode I DON'T use, lol! I am really surprised to find that there's not more information about this, or people talking about it, since most of the time people are all over a new firmware when it comes out. I hope that someone is brave enough to try it, and give us a report soon...but I'm too chicken to do it myself!

 

[Frohlich]

I think everyone is scared to try it and loose their settings. I wish Panasonic would disclose what the firmware update does in detail...from the brief description it almost seems to be for 3d only.

 

[rfic]

hopefully d-nice will check this version of firmware to see if his setting still works best for the new version

 

[Dwellon]

Yesterday afternoon I decided to install this new firmware on my 65VT25. Since I have not made any changes to my service menu and won't be having the set ISF calibrated until early next year I figured I would give it a shot.


The firmware installed with no issues. After the install I checked my settings for the different modes I use (Game, THX, Custom for 2D and Custom for 3D), all my settings in the menu remained the same, including Custom in 3D.


PQ on the 2D modes looked the same as before. But PQ on the Custom 3D mode did look different compared to before the upgrade. So whatever changes this firmware makes, it seems to be strictly on the service menu side.


After inputting the settings listed from the Panasonic Avatar site, I watched a little bit of Ice Age, and to me the 3D PQ looked alot better than it did before. The biggest change for me was the colors. The colors with this new update look similar to the 2D THX mode.


Before anyone asks, I am unable to compare to D-Nice's settings since I did not use them prior to the update. (But I did use his Break-In procedure) The reason for this is that I did not want to go into my service menu. But I did use his contrast and Brightness settings, but that was about it. I also had CATS, NR, AGC, Blur Reduction and etc all turned off or at the 0 setting.


I'll watch some more 3D tonight since I only watched about 15 - 20 minutes of 3D so far with this new update. But as of now I am impressed with it. I decided

 

[redwolf4k]



Quote:
Originally Posted by Dwellon /forum/post/19582136


Yesterday afternoon I decided to install this new firmware on my 65VT25. Since I have not made any changes to my service menu and won't be having the set ISF calibrated until early next year I figured I would give it a shot.


The firmware installed with no issues. After the install I checked my settings for the different modes I use (Game, THX, Custom for 2D and Custom for 3D), all my settings in the menu remained the same, including Custom in 3D.


PQ on the 2D modes looked the same as before. But PQ on the Custom 3D mode did look different compared to before the upgrade. So whatever changes this firmware makes, it seems to be strictly on the service menu side.


After inputting the settings listed from the Panasonic Avatar site, I watched a little bit of Ice Age, and to me the 3D PQ looked alot better than it did before. The biggest change for me was the colors. The colors with this new update look similar to the 2D THX mode.


Before anyone asks, I am unable to compare to D-Nice's settings since I did not use them prior to the update. (But I did use his Break-In procedure) The reason for this is that I did not want to go into my service menu. But I did use his contrast and Brightness settings, but that was about it. I also had CATS, NR, AGC, Blur Reduction and etc all turned off or at the 0 setting.


I'll watch some more 3D tonight since I only watched about 15 - 20 minutes of 3D so far with this new update. But as of now I am impressed with it. I decided

So what your saying is, the firmware gets 3D content visually in-line with the 2D THX mode?


Sounds like an improvement to me.

 

[Pabgon]



Quote:
Originally Posted by Dwellon /forum/post/19582136


Yesterday afternoon I decided to install this new firmware on my 65VT25. Since I have not made any changes to my service menu and won't be having the set ISF calibrated until early next year I figured I would give it a shot.


The firmware installed with no issues. After the install I checked my settings for the different modes I use (Game, THX, Custom for 2D and Custom for 3D), all my settings in the menu remained the same, including Custom in 3D.


PQ on the 2D modes looked the same as before. But PQ on the Custom 3D mode did look different compared to before the upgrade. So whatever changes this firmware makes, it seems to be strictly on the service menu side.


After inputting the settings listed from the Panasonic Avatar site, I watched a little bit of Ice Age, and to me the 3D PQ looked alot better than it did before. The biggest change for me was the colors. The colors with this new update look similar to the 2D THX mode.


Before anyone asks, I am unable to compare to D-Nice's settings since I did not use them prior to the update. (But I did use his Break-In procedure) The reason for this is that I did not want to go into my service menu. But I did use his contrast and Brightness settings, but that was about it. I also had CATS, NR, AGC, Blur Reduction and etc all turned off or at the 0 setting.


I'll watch some more 3D tonight since I only watched about 15 - 20 minutes of 3D so far with this new update. But as of now I am impressed with it. I decided

Are you familiar with the floating blacks issue? I would like to know if Panasonic did something about that.

 

[Dwellon]

My experience yes. But someone else who has used d-nice's setting or has had their tv professionally calibrated may have a different experience.

 

[Dwellon]

Yes, I'm familiar with floating blacks and experienced them with the previous update. I'll test it out tonight. Thanks for bringing that up, I didn't think to test that.

 

[Pabgon]



Quote:
Originally Posted by Dwellon /forum/post/19582429


My experience yes. But someone else who has used d-nice's setting or has had their tv professionally calibrated may have a different experience.

I use D-nice settings and his service menu offsets and I can clearly see the floating blacks...when possible please check out any movie where you have noticed the floating black issue and tell of us if you still notice it with the new firmware, thanks....

 

[rfic]



Quote:
Originally Posted by Pabgon /forum/post/19582471


I use D-nice settings and his service menu offsets and I can clearly see the floating blacks...when possible please check out any movie where you have noticed the floating black issue and tell of us if you still notice it with the new firmware, thanks....

can i ask what is "floating blacks"? how i can check it?


i change service menu according to d-nice's setting, so i wonder if i upgrade, what will happen