Dear All Sifu,

Anyone can help me clear-up my doubt as below:-
1) What's the market price for HDMI graphic card? Please recomend a market value Graphic cards with HDMI output.
2) If normal VGA connected to TH-P42S10K will get poor pixel?
3) I came across with the Break-in topic, I'm curious, Why Panansonic Manufacturer didn't Break-in before sell to consumer?

I am still considering weather to get another S10 - 50" or 42" 

It's for my master bedroom.

Around 15 feet. 

Wow 2nd P42S10   .....but if you save up the money for two S10, you can go for larger screen plasma 

Hiho

My eyes are bleeding...

For those who notice, I've promised to post my TH-P42S10K setup after Spyder 3 calibration

And today's the day

Here is the results after calibration

View Mode: Normal
Contrast: 96
Brightness: 4
Color: 50
Sharpness: 50
Color Blance: Normal
Color Management: Off
x.v. Color: Off
Eco Mode: On
P-Nr: Off

At this point in time the images on screen (Baraka and Ratatouille) is popping out of the TV

Which explains my bleeding eyes....

Nope. No adjustment on the service menu.

Yes, I have the same feeling about the contrast value. Am afraid that my TV is not properly burn in yet (about 50 hours)

Will borrow his Spyder 3 calibration after another 2/3 weeks or so to recalibrate.

Cheers

Whats the recommended break-in hours for this model?

Thank you for buying from me again!   

Bro, next time when you are free, pls come again. I will let you test out my system. Btw, just done '1st stage' of acoustic treatment today. Hope to get my '2nd stage' this weekend.

Bro,

Superyaw has the readings. It was almost 1am when we finished this morning, so I did not take the readings. However, the readings are only for the AC Ryan Media streamer and the calibration was done in the service menu. From what I remember, it was done in Cinema Mode and Colour Temperature Warm. I can confirm that each media streamer is different and the setting cannot be interchanged. This is because of the different chips used in each media streamer

I did not calibrate for the PS3 since he does not use that for viewing. BD players are closer to each other and will yield better results.

Bro,

If u r using with HTPC, I believe this problem can only be fixed if your card is a good graphics card. I have seen 2 ATI cards that pass blacker than black but do not pass whiter than white. This is an issue. Brightness cannot be set correctly. More importantly, the gamma curves even with good grayscale is out of whack. Way out of whack .The S10/X10 does not have gamma treatment options even in the service menu. The gamma above 50% gray was somewhere between 1.3-1.7! This will yield in a washed up picture. The only way to fix this is to reduce the brigthness to insane levels, then you end up with very bad shadow details as the gamma in the lower regions (10-40%) are then above 3! I really have not seen a HTPC graphics card that addresses these issues correctly

The media streamers are another headache. The WDTV passes Blacker than Black (BTB) and Whiter than White (WTW),  but it messes up the gamma a little and screws up the colour transformation to HD. the AC Ryan passes WTW but does not pass BTB. It does not harm the colour too badly.

So your best bet would be a standalone BD player if you stress picture quality.

Pls remember than all modifications in the service menu need to be done by someone who knows what he is doing. superyaw, will need to go back into the service menu, take the RGB bias and RGB cuts and the person using his settings will have to either navigate up/down to match the final settings he gives. The settings are in HEX format.

Again, pls take care when u r in the service menu. I would like to mention that choosing the wrong option can brick your set. Pls be careful.