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I'm back from a Nexnix Demo for a Panasonic 6 today.
The people who dealt with me were Lucy and Matt who make a great team for combined consumer/technical information.
First of NexNix only sell the corporate models (In both Black and Silver) - the Silver model they stock is NOT the consumer version - it is simply the Corporate model in silver (hence the funny model numbers on their web site). This means that both the silver and black models that they sell come with the higher emission levels then the consumer silver (as discussed in an earlier post).
Not that I demoed the Black model which comes with a RBG/Svideo input card. This PDF (cick here) shows you the defaut inputs you get if you were to buy from NexNix (note this isnt the standered consumer model PDF thats floating round the web).
(Nexnix also sell the consumer silver corporate model but with a SCART card bundled).
We had a few problems with set up - trying to get RGB+S to work for a Digibox with the TY-42TM6Y card (included). Against what panasonic tech support originally told me @ 9am this morning - YOU CANNOT USE RGB+S WITH THE TY-42TM6Y IN THE SERIES 6. You could with the series 5, but NOT WITH THE SERIES 6.
Also against Panasonics word - The TY-42TM6Y comes with BNC connections for the RGB inputs NOT RAC connections (not such a big deal).
We ended up taking the SCART output from the digibox - placing it through a JS converter box which outputs YUV then inputing that to the TY-42TM6Y RGB connections. YOU CAN HAVE BOTH SVIDEO (or composite) AND THE RGB INPUT as 2 inputs (again, panasonic were wrong and claimed this was not possible, but it is!). Also it is possible to have the two video source inputs in Picture-in-Picture mode unlike other plasmas like the Hitachi where you can only have One Video source and one VGA source.
The Screen was excellent. We tested it with Sky, Tivo, and DVD.
We used the following DVD's for testing (straight YUV from DVD) :
-Bad Boys (final airport scene)
-Matrix (intro scene and lobby scene)
-Star Wars 2 AotC (Scene with all the clones being made)
-24 Season 1 DVD (1am Walsh and Bauer shootout scene and 11pm bauer/drazen shoot out) these were good scenes for testing blacks
-Animatrix (intro scene)
I was seriously impressed with the results. The panny 6 produced the best Blacks then any other Plasma I have tested in the last month. By defaut the Contrast level on the plasma is turned right up to the max (I believe panasonic do this to help prevent screen burn??) - however once the visual settings were modified it was possible to produce images which I honistly would match to my CRT (for the DVD testing).
I really wouldent consider buying any other plasma model at this stage and pan to buy one of these bad boys in the coming week from NexNix (just need to figure out my inputs for my equipment!).
I would like to thank NexNix for a successfull afternoon - I recommend them to anyone looking into plasmas, their staff are commited to providing great service and I plan to use them in the future
I hope this clears up any questions that were floating around the forums in reguards to the TY-42TM6Y.
NexNix RULE!!!!:kisses:
The people who dealt with me were Lucy and Matt who make a great team for combined consumer/technical information.
First of NexNix only sell the corporate models (In both Black and Silver) - the Silver model they stock is NOT the consumer version - it is simply the Corporate model in silver (hence the funny model numbers on their web site). This means that both the silver and black models that they sell come with the higher emission levels then the consumer silver (as discussed in an earlier post).
Not that I demoed the Black model which comes with a RBG/Svideo input card. This PDF (cick here) shows you the defaut inputs you get if you were to buy from NexNix (note this isnt the standered consumer model PDF thats floating round the web).
(Nexnix also sell the consumer silver corporate model but with a SCART card bundled).
We had a few problems with set up - trying to get RGB+S to work for a Digibox with the TY-42TM6Y card (included). Against what panasonic tech support originally told me @ 9am this morning - YOU CANNOT USE RGB+S WITH THE TY-42TM6Y IN THE SERIES 6. You could with the series 5, but NOT WITH THE SERIES 6.
Also against Panasonics word - The TY-42TM6Y comes with BNC connections for the RGB inputs NOT RAC connections (not such a big deal).
We ended up taking the SCART output from the digibox - placing it through a JS converter box which outputs YUV then inputing that to the TY-42TM6Y RGB connections. YOU CAN HAVE BOTH SVIDEO (or composite) AND THE RGB INPUT as 2 inputs (again, panasonic were wrong and claimed this was not possible, but it is!). Also it is possible to have the two video source inputs in Picture-in-Picture mode unlike other plasmas like the Hitachi where you can only have One Video source and one VGA source.
The Screen was excellent. We tested it with Sky, Tivo, and DVD.
We used the following DVD's for testing (straight YUV from DVD) :
-Bad Boys (final airport scene)
-Matrix (intro scene and lobby scene)
-Star Wars 2 AotC (Scene with all the clones being made)
-24 Season 1 DVD (1am Walsh and Bauer shootout scene and 11pm bauer/drazen shoot out) these were good scenes for testing blacks
-Animatrix (intro scene)
I was seriously impressed with the results. The panny 6 produced the best Blacks then any other Plasma I have tested in the last month. By defaut the Contrast level on the plasma is turned right up to the max (I believe panasonic do this to help prevent screen burn??) - however once the visual settings were modified it was possible to produce images which I honistly would match to my CRT (for the DVD testing).
I really wouldent consider buying any other plasma model at this stage and pan to buy one of these bad boys in the coming week from NexNix (just need to figure out my inputs for my equipment!).
I would like to thank NexNix for a successfull afternoon - I recommend them to anyone looking into plasmas, their staff are commited to providing great service and I plan to use them in the future
I hope this clears up any questions that were floating around the forums in reguards to the TY-42TM6Y.
NexNix RULE!!!!:kisses: