Panasonic TX-P42G10 - Plasma Newbie

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I'm (hopefully) having one of these beauties delivered on Thursday, which should be a welcome treat after suffering with a pretty poor 32" Bravia for the last couple of years.

As a virgin to plasma TVs is there anything I need to know or do when this TV arrives? I've heard about going easy on it until it's got a decent amount of hours on the clock but how long do I need to wait, and what can and can't I use it for during this time?

Teach me please :D
 
I would be interesting in hearing the latest on Plasma, I'm looking at buying another large screen TV for my Xbox room but have always been dubious of Plasma.

Also a mini review of you shiney new G10 when you get it please mate. They're supposed to be really nice.
 
To be honest as long as you don't put brightness and contrast at 100% you shouldnt have a problem!

I wouldn't worry about screen burn either, I have fallen aswell twice with things like BBC/sky sports news on and both times you could see the image afterwards when the screen was off (retention). But within 10-15minutes you can't see it on a pure white screen anymore. I play MW2 on mine quite a bit aswell and have never noticed any retention from that. I think the images have to be very static and for quite a while to even get retention!

Also you are apparently meant to transport plasmas vertically. Not sure how true this is as I have never laid mine flat though.

Enjoy it!
 
Plasmas dont need a "run in period" anymore. You will be fine with it, just put it on Cinema mode and adjust the brightness down a click or two. The Cinema preset will give the best colour and black reproduction and is very good (at least on my Panasonic PX80) at its default settings.
 
Magic. This thread is just what I wanted to start myself - mines coming on Saturday with the BD60 player (going sell this however if I can get shot). Reading AVForums makes me want to send it back some of the stuff people come out with between the sensible posts.
 
Got my G10 about 4 weeks ago and my picture has got BETTER : )
reading on A/V it seems the G10 beds in around 200hrs just leave the settings on normal. I break up on Friday for 3 weeks so 3 weeks of bluerays and sky HD. : )
 
Nymins said:
just put it on Cinema mode and adjust the brightness down a click or two. The Cinema preset will give the best colour and black reproduction and is very good (at least on my Panasonic PX80) at its default settings.
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Its funny what you get used to. I tried moving my 42" Panny to cinema but the picture looked very dull compared to "normal". Eye of the beholder etc. :)
 
I did use Normal for ages on my PX80 with the colour temp set to Normal too, but after loads of people telling me to go Cinema with colour temp Warm, I tried it and have never went back.

Although Normal is much better for daytime viewing as Cinema is quite dull when there is a lot of light.
 
Syph said:
Magic. This thread is just what I wanted to start myself - mines coming on Saturday with the BD60 player (going sell this however if I can get shot). Reading AVForums makes me want to send it back some of the stuff people come out with between the sensible posts.
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Let me guess you got it from a department store in the Victoria Centre :p

Edit: Talon mate there's a wealth of information on these forums alone about this set, my writing skills probably couldn't begin to give it justice so just have a look around :)
 
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Caged said:
Let me guess you got it from a department store in the Victoria Centre :p
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Might be :p

Damn I wish I said Weds delivery to my mums (who works from home). Saturday seems an age away... All those 'bedding in' hours lol. :D
 
Syph said:
Magic. This thread is just what I wanted to start myself - mines coming on Saturday with the BD60 player (going sell this however if I can get shot). Reading AVForums makes me want to send it back some of the stuff people come out with between the sensible posts.
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I've got the same package so I'm curious as to why you'd want shut of the BD60 or have you already got a player?:)
 
Screen burn is down to some peoples stupidity. Just keep that blowtorch away from the screen and you shouldn't have a problem.

Just put some rough settings in from one of the good reviews or some from teh users on avforums and enjoy. Just keep it out of dynamic and turn off all the noise reduction crap. Should sort the picture out no end.
 
As people have mentioned just take it ieasy on the brightness for the first few days then set it up as you want. I tried the supposedly most acurate settings (a customised cinema setting) but I just couldnt get on with it, the whites were never white, they had a very slight yellow tinge to them. Easiest way is to grab a pixar DVD, they will have the THX optimiser on it. Set the TV to standard and go through all the THX tests, that what I did and after around 30mins of playing I got an absolutly great picture. I would never go back to LCD again.
 
I have the 46" version, and it is really very good even for gaming :) Had a few guys round for an xbox sesh and one of them was always very dubious about plasmas for gaming, but said it was really faultless compared to his Samsung LCD, and had much better black levels etc. For movies it is absolutely stunning :)

I have mine in movie mode with a few settings tweaked.

Tom.
 
Caged said:
I'm (hopefully) having one of these beauties delivered on Thursday, which should be a welcome treat after suffering with a pretty poor 32" Bravia for the last couple of years.

As a virgin to plasma TVs is there anything I need to know or do when this TV arrives? I've heard about going easy on it until it's got a decent amount of hours on the clock but how long do I need to wait, and what can and can't I use it for during this time?

Teach me please :D
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Some good info as to settings etc in here old chap:

Richdog is now the proud owner of a Panasonic TX-P50G10E (mini review inside) http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18022703&highlight=startername_Richdog

Enjoy your set, plasmas are simply amazing. :)
 
When we first bought our plasma the number of people who told us it was a waste of money as it wouldn't last as long as an LCD was amazing.
I pointed out to them that based on a conservative estimate of 30,000 hours effective half life I would still be watching that plasma in 14 years time!
 
ive played a few hours ps3 on my week old g10 and its amazing, the only thing i did read in the destruction manual tho is it has a 3d combe filter which i cant find !
 
insane200 said:
ive played a few hours ps3 on my week old g10 and its amazing, the only thing i did read in the destruction manual tho is it has a 3d combe filter which i cant find !
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I think this is only applicable to Scart connections, and if you are using a scart connection for your ps3 I'm going to get the police round for crimes against humanity.

I didn't bother with the running in stuff, first thing I did was play 5 hours of fifa in game mode. Not had any image retention or screen burn whatsoever.
 
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I've got the same package so I'm curious as to why you'd want shut of the BD60 or have you already got a player?:)
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I've got a PS3 and I honestly doubt I'd notice that muchdifference (ie: £150 worth).

Glad to hear that it's good for gaming. I made a massive assumption that plasmas are fine for gaming now so I'm pleased to hear it actually is. :D

My only worry is my Wii. I have a HD CRT at the minute and I'm very happy with it bar the size which is letting down my Bluray/PC. I'm hoping this is equally as good as my HD CRT for SD/ED sources.
 
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