So our family recently purchased a new TH-50PX80U for our living room. For the first 20 hours, we watched a lot of TV, some movies, and I did about 8 hours of gaming on there. That resulted in 22 hours of use without break-in. I got break-in images and put them on an SD card. TV's been breaking in since last night on Cinema with 50s all around for the settings, and all auto image/color stuff turned off.
Anyway, on to my question. I've read the posts on the calibration disk, and unfortunately, I cannot burn DVDs or have Blu-Ray or an upscaling DVD player.
I used the THX Optimizer and set the settings for Cinema and Game. I then went on these forums and checked out ALL of the settings that other people use for the model TV that we have. Their brightness and color seemed to be significantly lower than the settings I used. Both settings that I used were around +15-20 up than the other users settings. I posted on that thread, and someone said that the brightness I was using (75-80s) was WAY too high for the set and would definitely cause burn-in, especially with the games.
Now, with the THX optimizer on SD DVDs, the brightness test was to make the drop shadow disappear and still see the THX. I did that, but added a bit of brightness because the Cinema setting is way too dark for my tastes. I've run the white line test and again, have been breaking in the set when no one is using it.
I like the colors to be bright and vivid, but the average setting for color that all the user settings I've seen was around 45. I used 65 and up. Game mode's brightness was set a bit high, and will lower that down in the future after break-in.
Any input or opinions on this? Is this just a preference thing? Could I cause any long term damage if I set the settings higher AFTER break-in? I don't game for more than an hour and a half or 2 hours. The THX Optimizer seemed to work very well, but I heard that it's movie specific, can anyone confirm this? What can I expect for the brightness and quality of the image after break-in?
Anyway, on to my question. I've read the posts on the calibration disk, and unfortunately, I cannot burn DVDs or have Blu-Ray or an upscaling DVD player.
I used the THX Optimizer and set the settings for Cinema and Game. I then went on these forums and checked out ALL of the settings that other people use for the model TV that we have. Their brightness and color seemed to be significantly lower than the settings I used. Both settings that I used were around +15-20 up than the other users settings. I posted on that thread, and someone said that the brightness I was using (75-80s) was WAY too high for the set and would definitely cause burn-in, especially with the games.
Now, with the THX optimizer on SD DVDs, the brightness test was to make the drop shadow disappear and still see the THX. I did that, but added a bit of brightness because the Cinema setting is way too dark for my tastes. I've run the white line test and again, have been breaking in the set when no one is using it.
I like the colors to be bright and vivid, but the average setting for color that all the user settings I've seen was around 45. I used 65 and up. Game mode's brightness was set a bit high, and will lower that down in the future after break-in.
Any input or opinions on this? Is this just a preference thing? Could I cause any long term damage if I set the settings higher AFTER break-in? I don't game for more than an hour and a half or 2 hours. The THX Optimizer seemed to work very well, but I heard that it's movie specific, can anyone confirm this? What can I expect for the brightness and quality of the image after break-in?