settings for new plasma

[ctjoe]

I understand that the 1st 100 hours are important for plasma. I will be hooking up new 42" plasma Christmas eve. What is a good starting point in settings eg. brightness and others. I heard its a good idea to set everything to 0 for few hours? Many sy too bright will kill years off screen

 

[Mort Corey]

Generally speaking, knock contrast, brightness and sharpness (depends on the display as to what the terminology is) to about 50%. On my panel there is a "theater" mode as on of the settings that basically cuts everything down about that range.....also one called "game, "standard" (which are brighter) and one that should be labled "incinerate"

Mort

 

[tlqualman]

I would get a DVD copy of Avia or Video Digital Essentials and use it to calibrate your set. You will get the best picture possible short of paying several hundred dollars for an ISF calibration (worth the money in my opinon on any good display) You can get both of these DVD's on ebay or amazon.

 

[ctjoe]

do these videos only setup the dvd player or does in fine tune Hd television broadcasting also. I was looking at the video essentials. Is one better or easier? many thanks

 

[Don_T]

From what I have read in these forums the Avia disc will calibrate the display to compensate for the source anomaly's. Since the disc only plays through the DVD player it only optimizes that one output. The display in general will be better calibrated overall compared to out of the box.

I also would like to propose a question to someone more experienced with this than myself. Is there anyway to output the test patterns to a display device that essentially would calibrate the display without the bias of the source so that other sources such as broadcast would be closer to correct? I was thinking of playing the disc through a computer but I figure that even the computer would introduce it's own biases.

Any help would be extremely useful.

Hope that it's not rude to piggyback a question on someones thread but I think this information would be useful to ctjoe as well.

 

[mtrycrafts]

I also would like to propose a question to someone more experienced with this than myself. Is there anyway to output the test patterns to a display device that essentially would calibrate the display without the bias of the source so that other sources such as broadcast would be closer to correct? I was thinking of playing the disc through a computer but I figure that even the computer would introduce it's own biases.

Any help would be extremely useful.

Hope that it's not rude to piggyback a question on someones thread but I think this information would be useful to ctjoe as well.

Yes, there are computer driven programs that would calibrate only the monitor. Which one is good, you'd have to visit AVS forum and browse around.