DVE - Help! re contrast level setting

[Deadsquirrel]

My Panasonic 42PX60 passed it's 200hr's run in yesterday evening so i connected my Panasonic DMR-E85H via Component (Arcam DV88 only has Scart or Composite ), set mode to Cinema with colour management set on Warm and started to calidrate using the PAL DVE Disc.

Setting the Brightness, Colour, Sharpness etc was all pretty straight forward, however, when calibrating contrast the disc advises that the Basic calibration setting is for CRT based screens and that later on in the section it will show me how to calibrate Projection based screens which it does, however, at no point does the disc refer to Plasma display's, even the Advance chapter doesn't seem to mention Plasma.

So if you guys could possibly help i have some questions:

1) Am i using the DVE disc correctly?
2) What test pattern on the DVE do i use to set the Contrast level on my PX60 and how do i use it?

This is my first Plasma screen and this is also the first time i've ever attempted to calibrate any type of TV so please go easy on me, and if possible could you explain your answers in simple terms

[ScriptDaddy]

Mine is the same disc, I just used the CRT values.

Not sure if there are any test cards for the DVE disc for Plasma's? Could be wrong though (more than likely)

Ben

[jimborae]

Yep used CRT, picture looks great on my Panny PH9.

[Gordon @ Convergent AV]

The problem you have is that the artefacts causedby increasing contrast on a plasma are not the same as on a crt tv. Using the pluge pattern (4 grey vertical boxes with black stripes either side) is what you would use for CRT. Turning up contrast will show blooming as the top box expands due to the phosphor being over energised. Plasma phosphor is encapsulated so you do not get this effect.

I'd use the crossbar grey pattern. White bars fade to black topleft to top right then reversed in other direction.

You want to make sure you can differentiate all the white bars (imo you want to see the topleft one to the left of the one under the three black dots). You also want to make sure that as well as this happening you get as little banding or colour changes in the rest of the grey pattern.

Gordon