Comments for Panasonic TH-50PZ77U 50" 1080p Plasma HDTV at http://www.hometheaterhifi.com , comment 1 to 8 out of 8 comments http://www.hometheaterhifi.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:43:02 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/televisions-products-menu-column2-45/204-a-secrets-plasma-hdtv-review.html#comment-790 How were you able to affect gamma from the default Cinema setting? Just by changing brightness/contrast, or through the service menu? The default S-curve is pretty knarly looking. - Alan Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:04:37 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/televisions-products-menu-column2-45/204-a-secrets-plasma-hdtv-review.html#comment-388 It would be nice to know the best user-menu settings for the TH-50PZ77U before any changes are made in the service menu. What are they for Standard, Custom, Cinema and Vivid. That is, what are the best settings for Picture (contrast), Brightness, Color, Tint, Sharpness and Color Temperature for each picture mode. Then after there set properly, which is the recommended picture mode for HD viewing. This way people can optimize their settings to see if their happy before deciding if they need to get an ISF calibration done. - Roger Bennett Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:23:12 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/televisions-products-menu-column2-45/204-a-secrets-plasma-hdtv-review.html#comment-317 It would also be nice to know what values was set in the service menu... - Daniel Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:21:55 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/televisions-products-menu-column2-45/204-a-secrets-plasma-hdtv-review.html#comment-271 Would be nice to know the service menu defaults for rdrv, gdrv and bdrv. I've discovered they vary from set to set. - Zac Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:56:23 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/televisions-products-menu-column2-45/204-a-secrets-plasma-hdtv-review.html#comment-213 As mentioned above, no comments about processing and no discussion at all of color accuracy (other than gray scale tracking), color decoding, or ANSI contrast. - Tom Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:24:39 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/televisions-products-menu-column2-45/204-a-secrets-plasma-hdtv-review.html#comment-211 The contrast measurements I should have also included window pattern as well. I still don't imagine I could have gotten over 2K:1 properly calibrated. I wouldn't worry too much about it if you were considering this set. The contrast and black level of the set is excellent for the money. You can now pickup one of these for under $2K. On De-interlacing and scaling the Panasonic is acceptable. It is better at de-interlacing 480i and scaling it to 1080p than I would have ever expected, the picture is soft, but the couple of tested I used showed no signs of annoying artifacts. Again I don't have the set anymore and that is from memory. I also did not have proper 1080i HD test material at the time (I do now). When I finally finish the Samsung 5084 review a will include these. - Sandy Bird 1 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:56:57 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/televisions-products-menu-column2-45/204-a-secrets-plasma-hdtv-review.html#comment-172 Great review, but again - no comments on video processing capabilities, e.g. de-interlacing of 1080i to 1080p, and de-interlacing and scaling of 480i to 1080p. With all that Secrets has written about the topic (like Florian's great article on 1080p) I would expect more attention to this when it comes to HDTV reviews by you guys. - Kieran Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:48:10 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/televisions-products-menu-column2-45/204-a-secrets-plasma-hdtv-review.html#comment-170 to give a more real world contrast ratio of a plasma and crt sets, you have to measure the white level of a white window box instead of a white field. White window are a lot brighter than white field where the set uses less brightness to not overridden power consumption and reduce screen burn in. - Waterbug Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:13:33 +0100