Secrets from Plasma Owners

[Vancouver]

I'd like to know what things you (plasma owners) have done to make your picture look the best. Please say what you have done for Standard TV, DVD, Video Games etc. Including components and connections would be great.

I am asking because I have a great plasma (Panasonic TH-42PX20), or so everyone keeps telling me, but I have yet to get a consistant great picture out of it. I must admit that I have an old 480i dvd player and crappy cable box that only has s-video output. Needless to say I am going to upgrade and could use advice.

 

[Mort Corey]

Going to be tough getting a consistantly good picture when the input sources leave something to be desired no? Avia will get you pretty close and then you can flavor to taste from there.

Mort

 

[Dan]

I have a similar 50" Panasonic. The picture is great. I have a digital cable bow with component connections and a Denon 2900 universal player with component. The only probem is the cable company...

I used a DVD set up disc similar to Avia and found that the factory settings were dead on.

 

[Vancouver]

I noticed that when setting my TV to the factory setting "vivid" it was almost dead on (for component connections) when I watch TV via S-video the color needs to be turned down. I used DVE.

Can anyone tell me what the biggest most noticable difference is when watching a DVD via a crappy progressive vs something like a Denon 2910? Is it crisper? less tracers and gohsting?

 

[Vancouver]

Dan...wy cant we get a good picture from cable? My friend has a 16:9 B&O tube and even standard TV looks pretty good...at least the movement is very crisp. Mind you he paid $13,000 for the TV

 

[Mort Corey]

I've used Avia, DVE and S&V tune up disks, which all being DVD based are going to be somewhat dependent on the quality of your DVD players output, but found the "steaming rat" method gave me the best overall PQ.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=261309

Mort