Comments on: Not Compensating For Anything

By: HD FREAK

HD FREAK — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:58:20 +0000

bought mine yesterday and erm ….. HOLY MIGHTY MOTHER OF JESUS CHRIST!! IM FUCKIN EXASPERATED! BEST THING I’VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE.

this beats any LCD out there, even on gaming. I mean the colours are just so vivid and stand out dramatically compared to lame LCD’s. Popped in transformers HD DVD yesterday and was gasping out of excitement, close ups of faces look so real it’s like you can reach out and touch it. Truly involving experience, I AM IN LOVE. BYE.

By: Olly

Olly — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:01:22 +0000

LOL, you sound happy.

I bought one of those AV calibration discs for Blu-ray and this is how I have it set up (numbers are approx):

Viewing mode: Cinema
Contrast: 55%
Brightness: 50%
Colour: 65%
Sharpness: 40%

That gave me pretty much textbook results with DVE HD Basics running on a PS3 over HDMI.

By: HD FREAK

HD FREAK — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:50:37 +0000

HELL YES, I AM GETTING THIS BIG ASS FUCK OFF BEAST OF A T.V TMRO AND I CANNOT FUCKIN WAIT AT FUCKIN ALLL!!!!!!!!

btw thx for the review, can you recommend settings for gaming on the 360 and Blu-ray/HD-DVD yes i have both….muahahahahahah. cheers.

By: Olly

Olly — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:09:35 +0000

You shouldn’t have a problem. I’ve played the same game for 6-7 hours on this one and while you might get a bit of image retention when you finish, it disappears within about ten minutes of TV watching or about 30 minutes if you just turn it off.

By: BERT

BERT — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:08:21 +0000

HI THERE AM THINKING OF BUYING THE TH-42PZ80B THE ONLY THING THAT IS PUTTING ME OF IS PLAYING MY PS3 WILL THIS CAUSE BURNOUT ON THE SCREEN

By: runtime360

runtime360 — Sat, 31 May 2008 09:35:57 +0000

The panel has surge protection and one socket that’s permanently on for your PVR. However, note there are only 8 sockets in total so you’d have to work something out to gain two sockets from one of the existing ones.

I fully agree Peep Show comes first, everything else is secondary :)

By: Olly

Olly — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:59:23 +0000

It’s not a bad idea, but I’m daisy chained enough (nine AV items in one socket, with surge protector) without adding another link. Not to mention my PVR presumably wouldn’t be able to wake itself up if the power was completely cut off.

Saving the planet? What good would that do if I can’t watch House and Peep Show whenever I want?

By: runtime360

runtime360 — Tue, 27 May 2008 09:59:21 +0000

Don’t take the manufacturers claims for granted, I was surprised to find that my Plasma (inspite of having a relay that clicks ON/OFF) was consuming 30w when in standby. My newest Tosh LCD was better (although another LCD I have in the bedroom is terrible using over 40w in standby!).

If you have a £10 Kill-a-Watt device you should be able to confirm the usage of each of your devices. As a crude measure, each 10w in standby will cost about £1 over a month – at least it will after the coming utility price hike! Now think how much your 360, PS3 and Wii are consuming in tandem. 360 is about 14w, PS3 is about 12w (unless you switch if off using the button at the back) and the Wii is about 7w (more if you have the Wii 24 stuff turned on).

The solution I use and can recommend is oneclickpower’s Intellipanel (TVAIMP205). Briefly, it detects your IR remote when you attempt switch on your telly, providing it with power and transitioning from OFF to standby; the 2nd time you attempt the same button press, your telly will go from standby to ON. When you put your TV back into standby the Intellipanel is clever enough to detect this and transition to OFF. At the same time it will shut off power to all your peripherals and power them back up in tandem. If you have an AMP and active subwoofer you can save some more cash by plugging them into the panel. I picked mine up from Currys for the princely sum of £32. Based on current leccy bills, it’ll pay for itself in a couple of months. Oh and you’ll save the planet ;)

By: Olly

Olly — Mon, 26 May 2008 22:36:16 +0000

One thing that did occur to me with the plasma and it’s power consumption is that it can actually be turned off, whereas my LCD (and I think most models are the same in this respect, including in my experience with monitors) could only go onto standby. Even if it happened to use more in the maybe five hours I use it each day, you can be sure that it’s using a lot less in the other 19 ;)

By: runtime360

runtime360 — Mon, 26 May 2008 21:32:44 +0000

I have an LCD 42″ screen upstairs and have to agree it’s sweet spot is 6-7 feet. If I sat any further I’d have a lot of difficultly discriminating between 720 and 1080p. Downstairs I have a 50″ Plasma at a viewing distance is 10-12feet.

If I was told I could only keep one I’d stick with the plasma :)

Interestingly the newer, smaller LCD on avergae consumes more juice (300w) than the plasma (250w)!