Zenderquai
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Hi guys -
I'm somethin of a newbie here, and have searched for threads regarding some info, but couldn't find.. - hopefully i'm not breaching too many protocols!
In 2005 I bought a Hitachi 42" Plasma panel (42PD4200) from Richersounds - a non-HD ready plasma panel, with VGA, DVI, a couple of Component inputs, a scart... RF.. - it was very complete connectivity-wise.. However, it broke - and they couldn't repair it. - the Panel they offered me as a free replacement was the afore mentioned Philips 42pf5331.
I looked at the spec, and it greatly out-specced my old hitachi: 1024X1080, 2XHDMI's .. however no VGA - not a great loss.. but I've got it now, and it's on the wall - I can't get over
A - how simple and content-less the manual is, and
B - how attrocious the darker scenes are displayed..
I've tried a multitude of diagnostics to escape this poor performance - but I just can't ditch it. Whenever a dark scene is playing out, the panel panics, and colours revert to this ghastly "Emergency-Grey"..
I was wondering if there was some kind of engineering menu that I can use to tweak the real settings, of if it's just a really awful panel, that is right now filling Julian Richer's Warehouses..
y'reckon it's worth taking the panel back.. or I should stop looking my gift-horse in the mouth.. ?
thanks everyone!
Nick
I'm somethin of a newbie here, and have searched for threads regarding some info, but couldn't find.. - hopefully i'm not breaching too many protocols!
In 2005 I bought a Hitachi 42" Plasma panel (42PD4200) from Richersounds - a non-HD ready plasma panel, with VGA, DVI, a couple of Component inputs, a scart... RF.. - it was very complete connectivity-wise.. However, it broke - and they couldn't repair it. - the Panel they offered me as a free replacement was the afore mentioned Philips 42pf5331.
I looked at the spec, and it greatly out-specced my old hitachi: 1024X1080, 2XHDMI's .. however no VGA - not a great loss.. but I've got it now, and it's on the wall - I can't get over
A - how simple and content-less the manual is, and
B - how attrocious the darker scenes are displayed..
I've tried a multitude of diagnostics to escape this poor performance - but I just can't ditch it. Whenever a dark scene is playing out, the panel panics, and colours revert to this ghastly "Emergency-Grey"..
I was wondering if there was some kind of engineering menu that I can use to tweak the real settings, of if it's just a really awful panel, that is right now filling Julian Richer's Warehouses..
y'reckon it's worth taking the panel back.. or I should stop looking my gift-horse in the mouth.. ?
thanks everyone!
Nick