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Shooter said:
Nice purchase, HCP. That one is very similar to mine, just a little bit bigger. Mine is a 46-inch.

You're going to love the picture. That 60,000-1 dynamic contrast ratio is a thing of beauty!
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What does that ratio mean? And I am still trying to figure out this TouchofColor thing.
 
"THE" HCP said:
What does that ratio mean?
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It has to do with the contrast between black and white, and black and other colors (I believe). Something about color separation and intensity. Now watch, someone who knows more than me is going to jump on here and correct me. :)

The higher the contrast ratio, the better the picture. My set has a 50,000-1 dynamic contrast ratio, and it's the best picture I've ever seen. I have friends who spent a lot of money on a flat screen, but only have a 5,000-to-1, or 10,000-1 contrast ratio, which is not very good. You can see the difference.
 
Shooter said:
It has to do with the contrast between black and white, and black and other colors (I believe). Something about color separation and intensity. Now watch, someone who knows more than me is going to jump on here and correct me. :)

The higher the contrast ratio, the better the picture. My set has a 50,000-1 dynamic contrast ratio, and it's the best picture I've ever seen. I have friends who spent a lot of money on a flat screen, but only have a 5,000-to-1, or 10,000-1 contrast ratio, which is not very good. You can see the difference.
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See, that is different for me. Growing up in N.E. Portland I've always been against black and white color separation. Can't we all just get along!
 
"THE" HCP said:
See, that is different for me. Growing up in N.E. Portland I've always been against black and white color separation. Can't we all just get along!
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We can if everybody has a flat-screen TV!!

:biglaugh:
 
I just spoke with Panasonic and the tech rep told me that a "break-in period" is not necessary on their newer plasmas. In other words, plug n' play.

????
 
BeerBoy said:
Did you get "THE" new tv HCP?
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Sure did brother! I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!! I watched the Laker game last night and it looked amazing. I just watched an episode of FLASHFORWARD and it looks like I could grab the actors. Best part, It has this USB media port on the side that allows me to play MP3's, view photos and the coolest part, I can watch movies. I have hundreds of movies and TV shows for the upcoming season saved as AVI files. I dragged one to a stick, plugged it in and the remote controls it like a DVD or DVR. I didn't even know it had this option! I'm never leaving my house again!
 
"THE" HCP said:
Sure did brother! I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!! I watched the Laker game last night and it looked amazing. I just watched an episode of FLASHFORWARD and it looks like I could grab the actors. Best part, It has this USB media port on the side that allows me to play MP3's, view photos and the coolest part, I can watch movies. I have hundreds of movies and TV shows for the upcoming season saved as AVI files. I dragged one to a stick, plugged it in and the remote controls it like a DVD or DVR. I didn't even know it had this option! I'm never leaving my house again!
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NICE!
Looking forward to you leaving for the first road trip next week so I can come snuggle up with your wife and watch lesbian porn! :lol:
:cheers:
 
Here it is, and she said OK!
 

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Nice TV, HCP. You gotta get better programming for it, however.

Excuse me, let me rephrase it.

Nice TV, THE "HCP". You gotta get THE better programming for it, however.
 
I just have pictures of myself on a loop at all times! "THE" wife loves it!
 
ABM said:
I just spoke with Panasonic and the tech rep told me that a "break-in period" is not necessary on their newer plasmas. In other words, plug n' play.

????
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I never "burned in" or "broke in" or tuned my Viera and it's just awesome still.
 
"THE" HCP said:
Sure did brother! I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!! I watched the Laker game last night and it looked amazing. I just watched an episode of FLASHFORWARD and it looks like I could grab the actors. Best part, It has this USB media port on the side that allows me to play MP3's, view photos and the coolest part, I can watch movies. I have hundreds of movies and TV shows for the upcoming season saved as AVI files. I dragged one to a stick, plugged it in and the remote controls it like a DVD or DVR. I didn't even know it had this option! I'm never leaving my house again!
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One less Hispanic Causin' Panic on the streets!
:biglaugh:
 
"THE" HCP said:
I just have pictures of myself on a loop at all times! "THE" wife loves it!
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I'd try to find a way to put those front speakers at ear level, FWIW.

Looks nice though!
 
Denny Crane said:
I never "burned in" or "broke in" or tuned my Viera and it's just awesome still.
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I don't remember anyone making it mandatory, but I know from reading the avs forum that some of the Pioneers were broken in at the factory.

They don't want to give people the idea that plasmas need special attention but it doesn't hurt to break it in gently.

All they mean by break in is mainly stopping any constant images from staying on the screen for the first 100 hours.
 
bodyman5001 said:
I don't remember anyone making it mandatory, but I know from reading the avs forum that some of the Pioneers were broken in at the factory.

They don't want to give people the idea that plasmas need special attention but it doesn't hurt to break it in gently.

All they mean by break in is mainly stopping any constant images from staying on the screen for the first 100 hours.
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I watch SD programming with the pillars on the left/right all the time. No burn in or anything.

They tried to sell me for $300 that they'd come out to my house after 30 days and retune the brightness and colors. I am glad I didn't; the picture is just awesome as it is.
 
Denny Crane said:
I watch SD programming with the pillars on the left/right all the time. No burn in or anything.

They tried to sell me for $300 that they'd come out to my house after 30 days and retune the brightness and colors. I am glad I didn't; the picture is just awesome as it is.
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It is awesome as it is. The way I calibrated mine was by eye...seriously. I used a calibration disc I downloaded off of avs forums and i did make a bunch of changes so my contrast and whatnot was right. The disc had patterns that you adjust so you get the right contrast, like a video game where you adjust it so you can see everything but it is still dark enough to be scary.

By eye I mean for the colors, I paused my DVR on an NBC logo and tried to make the colors of the peacock look the way I thought they should, worked awesome.

A pillar line on either side wouldn't bother me so much, it was the fox five logo from Vegas channel five news that caused heavy IR on my screen, took a lot of scrolling bar to get rid of it. Most channels have see through logos, not cheap as fox five.
 
The burn in period they say should be where you don't have the gamma set very high. Keep it set at medium for a solid week. I'm sure it's just old school paranoia, but when you are spending that kind of cheddar on a TV, it's better to be safe than sorry.
 
You guys are all talking about plasmas right?
 
ABM said:
:D

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1190474
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Nice. I liked this explanation:

There are many scientific papers on the subject. If you have a background in science, a bit of reaserch would have given you the reason.

WRT question 1): Plasma panels decay according to the standard decreasing exponential function, i,e, y(t) = y(t=0)e^-Lx where L is the decay constant (small lamda).

For a typical modern plasma: At x = 1000 hours of use, the plasma panel light output (y) is about 0.93 or 93%. At x= 20,000 hours, y = ~0.70 or 70%. At x = 150,000, y =~0.50 or 50%

You should be able to figure the answer out for yourself.
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It cracks me up how you can get 15 different people with 15 different answers on there and all of them can make sense. I think the most important thing is to not watch anything in 4:3. I have my plasma set to a zoom mode for non-HD stuff to eliminate the black bars. Even though you are losing some detail, you won't really know what you are missing anyways.
 
BlazersBlood said:
Nice. I liked this explanation:



It cracks me up how you can get 15 different people with 15 different answers on there and all of them can make sense. I think the most important thing is to not watch anything in 4:3. I have my plasma set to a zoom mode for non-HD stuff to eliminate the black bars. Even though you are losing some detail, you won't really know what you are missing anyways.
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I don't like zoom on mine, I like just mode where the tv stretches the picture to fit the screen. It makes people's heads look WIDE. Doesn't bother me though.
 
bodyman5001 said:
I don't like zoom on mine, I like just mode where the tv stretches the picture to fit the screen. It makes people's heads look WIDE. Doesn't bother me though.
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Yeah, lucky for us they give us options. I'd rather have it cropped, but I usually only watch HD, so I'm never really missing anything. Even the local news is broadcast in HD now. Maybe the only 2 channels that I watch that aren't HD is Comdedy Central and the Military Channel.
 
ABM said:
I suppose I went a bit crazy yesterday. :)

Here's what I landed:

  • Panasonic TC-P50G15 50" VIERA® G15 Series 1080p THX®-certified Plasma HDTV
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Yay, it showed up today! :D

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