The 2013 Panasonic plasma's seem to be getting great reviews.
http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/news/panasonic-tx-p50gt60-201304052795.htm
Will be nice to see how the VT and ZT fair.
Looks good, if they have fixed the flickering I might have to get one.
The 2013 Panasonic plasma's seem to be getting great reviews.
http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/news/panasonic-tx-p50gt60-201304052795.htm
Will be nice to see how the VT and ZT fair.
There's certainly a bottom cut-off point. For example, I wouldn't expect much from a TV with a poor quality panel and weak electronics. So your basic Supermarket budget Vestel clones aren't going to be a calibration candidate. However, once you raise your sights from scraping the bottom of a barrel then you'd be surprised at what can be achieved.and the majority of those sets (which will be of the much cheaper variety) may well not be worth calibrating in the first place
Actually, it does.I'm not doubting that in some cases you can get a good tv to look great just by calibrating, and you can get a great tv even better. For the most part it wont make a jot of difference (especially to an untrained eye)
The main issue is a lot of people don't care what the standard is and just want to set up to to their personal preference, I remember when tons of people used to use Digital Vibrance on their Nvidia cards even though it messed the colours up.
There will be people who do the same on their TV's, they don't care about the standards.
my panny isn't perfect for motion but you get used to its faults.....but compared to a CRT it's miles better, the CRT is years old now and it really shows.
you only get a good image on a CRT because the screen is so tiny, you expand that to 50'' and it'll look horrid
the CRT has a rich smooth image... YES it's tiny, you dont notice its faults
the panny looks brilliant on HD/GAMING.....
This thread has turned out even dafter than I expected, yeah let's all go out and buy a CRT,
Yep. Or they believe that the out-of-the box settings are correct. Even if they do want to tweak the settings, most of the function names don't really help the average user.The main issue is a lot of people don't care what the standard is and just want to set up to to their personal preference, I remember when tons of people used to use Digital Vibrance on their Nvidia cards even though it messed the colours up.
There will be people who do the same on their TV's, they don't care about the standards.
Preset: Current setting - Dynamic. Let's try the other settings. Normal... Urgh... it's done a bit dull. Don't want that. Movie...Argh! Even duller. Video... a bit better. PC...now you're getting there... and back to Dynamic... Well that's the brightest picture so that's gotta be the one. Okay, what's next?...
Brightness: Makes the picture brighter surely? Do I want a bright picture? .. Well I don't want a dull one like that Cinema and THX crap... so Yes!. Let's turn it up. Oh... er, that looks a bit rubbish. Let's turn it down. Ah, now that's a bit better. Look how black everything is.
Contrast: Haven't a clue. Let's have a play. Can't really see much difference. Hang on, some white bits look a bright brighter. Why don't they call it "whiteness". Don't really know what I'm doing with this. Let's move on.
Colour: Well I like colourful images so lets have plenty of that.
Sharpness: Yep, plenty of that too. Wow. Look at that. There's like a white line round everything. That must be sharp, right?
What's next? Tint: Don't know. I'll just leave it in the middle.
Ooo... Advanced Settings. That's me. Mr Advanced... let's have a play....
Colour Tone: Normal... nah. I'm in advance settings. I've got to change something now I'm here. I don't want plain old normal. Warm... Urgh. It's all really red. Cool... Now we're getting there. Heh heh heh..My TV is 'cool'
Dynamic Contrast: Don't know what that is, but it's got the word Dynamic in it so it's gotta be good, right? And I like the Dynamic preset. So I think I'll have this on.
Black Tone: On/Off... I think my blacks should have the right tone so let's have that On.
Flesh Tone: -5 ~ +5 ... Let's see what this does... Not really sure. Looks okay at +1, and +2... oh I don't know. I'll leave it there
Gamma: WTF?? Is this something to do with the Hulk? Urgh, things gone a bit pale when I adjust it this way. Let's go the other way. Ah, now look. The colours are getting more vivid. What setting is that... -4. That'll do.
Motion Lighting: Off/Min/Max. Well I'm a max kind of guy so let's have it there.
Digital Noise Filter: I don't want any digital noise thank you. We'll have that on Max
MPEG Noise Filter: Same as above. Max.
LED Motion Plus: It's Plus so it's something extra, right? So let's have that On.
There we go. Who needs fancy test discs. That took me 10 minutes and the picture will be perfect. Let's have a look.... Oh, er... crap. How do I get out of this... Factory Reset. Oh bugger, now I have to retune. If she comes in I'll tell her the shop sent it out set to the wrong channels. Okay, that's good. Got me channels done. What was it before, picture preset Dynamic? Yeah, that's the one. Job done.