Panasonic PZ80 Owners: What Are Your Picture Settings?

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Hi

Before i get started i would like to thank everyone for helping me to choose my new HDTV, i went for the Panasonic 42PZ80 and let me say this TV
is freaking amazing, i was very much an LCD lover and a plasma hater, but boy was i wrong, weather its gaming or Blu-Ray's this TV excells at
everything you throw at it and i would never buy an LCD ever again.

Ive been playing around with everything over the weekend including the picture settings and am finding everything very confusing for example
with Blu-ray's i find some scenes look better on cinema and some look better on eco, as the TV is only a couple of days old i guess its just a
matter of experimenting with the settings and finding out what suits me the most.

Could all Panasonic PZ80 owners possibly be kind enough to post what picture settings your using for your TV with the following sources
to give me an idea of what settings i should be using:

Xbox 360
PS3
Blu-ray
Standard SKY

Thanks:)
 
Most people tend to agree that these settings are the best for the PX80 and PZ80:

http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/Panasonic-TH42PX80/Settings/

However, i used them for awhile on my PX80, but found them a bit bland and washed out. Now using my own custom settings which i find give much better blacks. Tested it using a scene from Pans Labyrinth, when she crawls through a tree. The HDTVtest settings made the picture really brown and the dark areas looked brown, but the settings i used made the dark areas much darker and gave an overall better picture.

Really down to your own tastes, but a lot will say the HDTVTest's settings are best.

EDIT: I use the same settings for every source btw.
 
ye I ran the HDTVtest settings for the first 200 hrs and couldnt take the slight yellow tinge any longer and simply changed the 'warm' setting to 'normal'

to me it now looks a lot better but I suggest for first 200 hrs to use the default HDTV test settings for initial burn in and then after this decide what you want to change.
 
I also hate the warm setting and always use normal

Xbox 360 settings:

Dynamic Setting:
Dynamic 53%
Brightness 47%
Colour 45%
Sharpness 50%

I know some people really hate this setting but personally i think games look better on dynamic, but of course as you can see ive left
everything on 50% approx until the TV has been broken in, but honestly games look amazing using these settings, a little bit to dark
sometimes but will fix that later after the run in.

As for cinema and eco settings i have these set to the following
and use them with Blu-ray:

Cinema & Eco:
dynamic 90%
Brightness 45%
Colour 45%
Sharpness 50

For some reason with cinema mode there is a slight white tinge to the picture and with night scenes actually improves PQ slightly
but with day scenes can make PQ look mucky and slightly washed out.

Im starting to think it maybe content sensative, for example Transformers and The Dark knight which are live action films do look slightly
better on cinema but HD animation like The Clone Wars on Blu-Ray looks better on Eco.
 
Your cinema settings are similar to mine -

Contrast - 7 clicks right
Brightness - 4 clicks left
Colour - 5 clicks left
Sharpness - 1 click left

Gives a good picture for me. But do you notice that the black bars in movies are slightly grey? Think it's just me thinking the PX80 will have as good blacks as a Kuro though :p
 
Nymins said:
Your cinema settings are similar to mine -

Contrast - 7 clicks right
Brightness - 4 clicks left
Colour - 5 clicks left
Sharpness - 1 click left

Gives a good picture for me. But do you notice that the black bars in movies are slightly grey? Think it's just me thinking the PX80 will have as good blacks as a Kuro though :p
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drop the brightness down. if the bars get darker then the brightness is too high. if they dont, its a low as it'll go.
 
no, the brightness directly affects the absolute black level you can achieve. try it on a completely black screen and you'll see what i mean. adjusting the contrast shouldnt affect the black level, only the absolute white level :)
 
james.miller said:
no, the brightness directly affects the absolute black level you can achieve. try it on a completely black screen and you'll see what i mean. adjusting the contrast shouldnt affect the black level, only the absolute white level :)
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turned the brightness right down to zero and the screen still had a greyish hint to it. It's just the darkest the PX80 will go I think. I shouldn't expect the blacks to be a good as the Kuro. Switching on a light behind the TV works and makes the blacks very black. May try and find one of those lights made specifically to go behind the tv, don't want one too distracting though, movies are meant to be viewed in darkness :p
 
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