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!
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 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.
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.
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.
Yeah, no break-ins for LCDs. Unless we're talking about your neighbors breaking-in to steal your new TV!
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.
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.
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.
