about87 said:
When I run some xbox games, it looks simply superb. This is true of Forza Motorsport (thank god!!!) and allmost all of the EA Sports titles. However, on just about every other game there is significant ghosting and two black bars are presented vertically across the screen each about an inch deep when it is displaying blacks. This is most noticable on Project Gothum 2 and Top Spin. I have absolutly no idea what could be causing it.
It sounds like the same problem I had. I had a Gamecube plugged into Ext1. On all 60Hz games I had a fuzzy screen with two long bars down the screen.
When I moved the to Ext2 or 3 the ghosting disappeared. There was also the added advantage that these sockets are RGB and the picture quality was significantly better.
I've had my 6600 since Thursday. I had budgeted for a Panasonic, but I still don't feel the technology is mature. I had this nagging feeling that no matter what Plasma I'd bought I would have to replace it in a few years time with a new one, probably for a third of the price. I decided the 6600 was a good compromise. If it doesn't work out, I won't feel too bad about replacing it.
First impressions:
Picture Quality
Picture quality was okay. Playing with the settings dramatically improved the situation.
I work with colour all day and at times there can be colour banding with flesh tones. However, it's rare and not too distracting.
With Freeview, the sharpness needs to be turned down otherwise the picture can be very harsh with noticeable pixellation on some of the more compressed channels or when there is fast movemt. I'd say the picture varies from poor to good.
With DVD (via SCART), the picture is very good. Lord of the Rings was excellent. It dealt very well with the action sequences as well as the dark scenes in Moria.
Playstation (S-Video) / Gamecube (SCART) - Generally very good. But I've been trying to avoid using them during the settling in period.
Sony Laptop (1024 x 768 via VGA)
Ran some high def wmv's. Very good picture
Powerbook (1024 x 768 via VGA)
Very good picture. My iPhoto collection looked stunning.
Sound quality
Average.
Image retention.
There is some. Early on while I was changing the settings, there was a very faint outline of the menus - it disappeared after about 20 seconds. I also saw a small amount when I was testing my Gamecube. There was some bright white text on a black background which I had on the screen for about 5 minutes while I was moving SCARTS around. I was very close to the screen and could see a very very faint outline of the white text when the screen went to black. Again the image faded very quickly. But to be honest I've seen similar on my old Panasonic CRT. It's nothing I'm worried about.
Overall though. For £1500, this is an excellent screen and would make the same decision.