Thread: Sold my 42 inch 720p and got a 46 inch 1080p

Originally Posted by lparsons21

Congrats on your purchase. I too bought a Panasonic Plasma this year, the TC-P54S1, same as yours, just a bit bigger.

I ran nothing but full screen video for the 1st 100 hours and then used the offsets suggested in the very long thread on avsforums. Results are better colors and more natural colors at much lower user settings than the defaults.

I can't help but believe that a professional calibration would be better than what I'm seeing, and I'm wowed by mine now!

Yeah, I saw that thread as well, and am thinking about applying those settings to mine when the time comes

Originally Posted by msmith198025

Yeah, I saw that thread as well, and am thinking about applying those settings to mine when the time comes

It takes all of about 10 minutes to do, 15 if you drink coffee or other beverage....

After applying droid's offsets, my user settings are :
Contrast : 68
Bright : 63
Color : 28
Tint : +5
Sharp : 40
Temp : Warm

This gives me a plenty bright enough picture with very good color saturation and no 'greening' of some pictures as I was seeing with the factory settings. I use the 'Cinema' setting for all viewing, day or night in a room that is never fully darkened and sometimes very bright.

This little Panasonic plasma is impressive, especially with a good BD movie. But even standard def stuff looks amazing, imo.

Originally Posted by lparsons21

Congrats on your purchase. I too bought a Panasonic Plasma this year, the TC-P54S1, same as yours, just a bit bigger.

I ran nothing but full screen video for the 1st 100 hours and then used the offsets suggested in the very long thread on avsforums. Results are better colors and more natural colors at much lower user settings than the defaults.

I can't help but believe that a professional calibration would be better than what I'm seeing, and I'm wowed by mine now!

I am running my P50S1 at settings in the ballpark of the AVS ones as well. However, a good calibration will tweak parameters only available from the service menu. The results can be as dramatic as the difference between what you have now and the initial torch mode.

FWIW, my settings are
Contrast: 52
Brightness: 62
Color: +26
Tint: 0
Sharpness: +5
Temp: warm
cats and NR: off
Black Level: light

Originally Posted by jayn_j

I am running my P50S1 at settings in the ballpark of the AVS ones as well. However, a good calibration will tweak parameters only available from the service menu. The results can be as dramatic as the difference between what you have now and the initial torch mode.

The settings I used are offsets done inside the service menu. From the tons of comments on AVS it appears that the offsets are not quite as good as a professional calibration, but are very close.

I thought about calibration, but it is done to the standard, and my color vision isn't quite standard!

Just make sure you write down your factory settings if you go to the service menu!!!!!!!!!!