Anyone have a Panasonic tc-P50S1?

[jetercanoturn2]

I was wondering how people are liking it, and if anyone had any good calibration settings.

[Schism 6]

Re: Anyone have a Panasonic tc-P50S1?

I love mine...

[jetercanoturn2]

Re: Anyone have a Panasonic tc-P50S1?

I love mine...

I got mine for 700 off craigslist, I'm loving it, but I was looking for some good calibration settings. Do you use default Schism?

[Schism 6]

Re: Anyone have a Panasonic tc-P50S1?

Um I have a couple of different settings, but I feel it's all just personal taste anyways.

[jetercanoturn2]

Re: Anyone have a Panasonic tc-P50S1?

Um I have a couple of different settings, but I feel it's all just personal taste anyways.

Well I was hopefully looking for some good settings for watching sports. I have good settings for Blu Ray and movies, but I feel like it's too dark for Sports. Do you have any recommended settings, or do you not really get into calibrating much?

[Speedy]

Re: Anyone have a Panasonic tc-P50S1?

I love the picture w/mine but I don't like the sound...you definately need a sound system hooked up with it IMO. For sports, I just use the "vivid" pre-setting...I actually use that setting for all my channels but mainly b/c I have walnet panel in my living room so it needs to be a bit brighter.

[jetercanoturn2]

Re: Anyone have a Panasonic tc-P50S1?

I love the picture w/mine but I don't like the sound...you definately need a sound system hooked up with it IMO. For sports, I just use the "vivid" pre-setting...I actually use that setting for all my channels but mainly b/c I have walnet panel in my living room so it needs to be a bit brighter.

Yea the picture is pretty incredible, When you say pre-setting, is that how the settings were out of the box?

[SuperBowlNachos]

Re: Anyone have a Panasonic tc-P50S1?

I have the TC-P42X1 so we almost are with the same TV.

My vivid looks terrible. It's super bright and the sharpness is like 100.

I looked on AVSforum for you.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=17461533#post17461533

Picture Mode: Cinema
Contrast: +73
Brightness: +61
Color: +39
Tint: +2
Sharpness: +24
Color Temp: Warm

Advanced Picture
MPEG NR: Off
Black Level: Light
HD Size: Size 2 for blu-ray Size 1 for everything else.

Color Temp Offsets

Before After Offset
R-Cut: 80 86 +6
G-Cut: 80 84 +4
B-Cut: 80 84 +4
R-Drive: F8 F8 +0
G-Drive: F3 DC -23
B-Drive: 9E A0 +2

Finally found some gaming settings I'm happy with. This is Game/Normal with Droid's offsets.

Contrast: 88
Bright: 58
Color:45
Tint: -2
Sharpness: 70
Black Lvl 1
HD size 2
all other stuff turned off

[jetercanoturn2]

Re: Anyone have a Panasonic tc-P50S1?

I have the TC-P42X1 so we almost are with the same TV.

My vivid looks terrible. It's super bright and the sharpness is like 100.

I looked on AVSforum for you.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...3#post17461533

Wow thanks man, where do I find those offset settings though?

I'm definitely going to try those Game settings, I feel it is too dark as my preset. Another thing i noticed Vivid is a tad grainy, nitpicking? maybe. Cinema or Custom is awesome for movies, as soon as I can figure out how to brighten it a little bit, Custom may be the way to go for sports, it's not grainy at all and the picture is really perfect, I just need to figure out how to make it brighter yet still retain the same color.

[SuperBowlNachos]

Re: Anyone have a Panasonic tc-P50S1?

Vivid sucks, don't use it. Thats what they use for in store to make it look bright and good.

Just raise the brightness and contrast some. What do you have your settings at right now?

And offsets are in the service menu. I didn't change them on my TV, I just change the regular settings. If you don't change the offsets, I'd say put the color temp on normal instead of warm.

[jetercanoturn2]

Re: Anyone have a Panasonic tc-P50S1?

I agree, Vivid doesn't do this wonderful set justice. I am using Custom right now at default, tweaking a little bit, but not real happy with it, I'm not very good at this. What settings are you using?

[judgejudy]

Re: Anyone have a Panasonic tc-P50S1?

just got my p42s1 today and I couldn't be happier this tv is amazing.

[bigfnjoe96]

Re: Anyone have a Panasonic tc-P50S1?

Jeter in order to get those OFFSET Settings you have to go into the Service Menu of the TV. I would suggest not doing that as if you fudge something up your warranty becomes VOID.

Your best bet is to have a Professional Calibrator do that for you. It will cost ya a nice piece of money, but IMO it's we'll worth it if you watch or use your TV a lot

[jetercanoturn2]

Re: Anyone have a Panasonic tc-P50S1?

Jeter in order to get those OFFSET Settings you have to go into the Service Menu of the TV. I would suggest not doing that as if you fudge something up your warranty becomes VOID.

Your best bet is to have a Professional Calibrator do that for you. It will cost ya a nice piece of money, but IMO it's we'll worth it if you watch or use your TV a lot

Hmm I should edit this, you told me everything I just asked.

Question: How much did you play for the prof calibration?

[bigfnjoe96]

Re: Anyone have a Panasonic tc-P50S1?

Hmm I should edit this, you told me everything I just asked.

Question: How much did you play for the prof calibration?

I paid $350.00 This got my main 2 inputs calibrated. This was about 2 years ago on my old CRT HDTV. I have since upgraded my set (not professionally done yet)