chrisrand said:I have a 50" PHD8 no problems at all after 3 weeks to report. Really impressed with the picture especially the dvd (denon 1920) through hdmi.
Chris
Gussie said:I posted something - now deleted - apologies to all!
Gussie
Piers said:Having read your post I went out and bought The Incredibles in the interests of research : )) From the HDMI output of an Arcam DV79 into the DVI board on the PHD8 the "change" was undetectable from a normal viewing distance. I then switched to component output from the Arcam and into the dual slot board and now see what the fuss has been about. It is not contrast that is changing, in my opinion, it is brightness - i.e. black level. As the car reverses out of the garage the image becomes much more intense and as this occurs there is a slight increase in the black level (small shift from black towards gray). It is a change across the whole screen, black bars included.
Having seen it on the component connection I then looked again at the HDMI / DVI. Sure enough, the effect is there, but this time only detectable when very close up to the screen.
I have spent much of today trying to completely eliminate the effect and also trying various settings to see if I can make it much worse and so understand why some people are seeing it as a real problem - which it isn't here, certainly not over HDMI / DVI. I can't eliminate it but it is so subtle on the HDMI / DVI input, properly calibrated, that I can't believe anyone would be upset by it.
Get the gamma setting slightly wrong, set brightness a bit too high and over the component input it is more noticeable, though again I suspect most people won't see it.
All results are, of course, off my panel - others may differ. Here at least I would say not a serious problem and certainly not a reason to avoid this panel. I continue to say that mine is the best 42" that I have yet seen : )
Piers said:Agreed that you wouldn't want the panel to do this but with VERY careful calibration the effect becomes almost unnoticeable.
tjradiohead said:A completely random question...
Do i use the short or long screws to screw the plasma to the stand?
blackeyepurple said:The ABL is designed to offer the viewer the best possible picture overall and helps to reduce deterioration of the panel and panel life.
blackeyepurple said:.the last one was very quiet....!
Saltrock said:Thing is blackeye you are no doubt (like myself) a perfectionist!
As you may know I too have a few dead pixels - again only on blue, but try finding them on a standard TV picture - near impossible.
At the end if the day its a screen to watch TV, if you can't see it from 6,8,10,12 feet away can you really say this is an issue with the screen? An LCD computer monitor is a little different as you sit only 1-2 feet away from the thing. There are 786432 pixels on the panel - 3 of those have a problem and only a 3rd of those 3 at that!
Again there is the other side of the coin - you've paid over £2g for something that does not work 100% and that a hell of a lot of money (to me anyway.)
I'm not having a go (as I said i'm in the same boat as you) but perhaps its time to begin enjoying the screen and try to forget an almost invisible problem?
Cheers
Saltrock