wprager
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shabbs wrote:Don't get me wrong, it's an amazing TV and the picture is incredibly sharp and vibrant, but it still has issues with very dark scenes and sports like hockey and football. It took me a very long time to tweak it to get it right, like several months of fiddling with settings and time on avsforum.com with other owners. All that "motion enhancement" crap actually makes the picture worse. I got it at a Boxing Day Sale price and could not say no. Was too good of a deal to pass on for this TV. Heh heh. It is huge. This one is in our great room which has a lot of bright light and windows so it works well there.
My plasma is a 42" Panasonic TC-P42U1 and is in our bedroom. Incredible picture, amazingly true colours, black blacks and amazing for sports and fast action. Love it.
Have you considered spending $300 to have it professionally calibrated? There are service menus available which, when not tweaked right, could permanently damage your set, but when done by someone trained/experienced could really improve the picture. I assume the set has a local dimming setting (mine is edge-lit and it still has local dimming which works marginally well; with a full-array it should kick Donkey).
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