has there been any firmware update available from panny malaysia for our V series and wonder if HDD recording with the V is possible ?
anyone with any idea ?

USB HDD recording feature is removed from the Asian version.

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my wife is.
short balik kampung trip in conjuction with the school holidays

vincent,

The true cinema mode has the most accurate colours.

The greyscale however is not perfect. Nor is it in any mode. Its most accurate in true cinema mode. To correct the yellowish tint u would need to go into the service menu and adjust white balance to further improve.

Dynamic mode has a colour temperature of about 10K. This means that the whites are really blue tinted. Cinema (Warm) is close to 6500K, TrueCinema is closest to 6500K

BTW, the 60s was known for green tinted. The True Cinema shd not send the colour to the sixties era as its the most accurate. Anything else has a wide gamut colour that is really not close to reference. Sharpness is a mix bag. If u view only HD material, I would suggest anywhere from 0 - 20. If u watch a  lot of SD stuff, then u would need to bump up the sharpness to above 30 - 50.

There is reference and there is preference.

My comment was that if u want to bring ur display close to reference use TrueCinema, if u do not like it, its ur display, u can select whatever u feel u like.

Been playing around with the 55VT30 and the 42VT30 and am pretty impressed with it.  Black Levels are great. Calibrates very well. 10 point gamma and greyscale take some getting used to.

Pro modes don't go above 30ft/L for now. Will see if the Asian versions are the same.

The one I'm playing with is the UK version.

Also spent some time with the Samsung plasma 55D8000. Also impressive.

Calibration controls are great on both.

Will post more impressions in the couple of days.

@ terra - no la...tanya sahaja...

As I wrote last week, I spent some time with this years VT30 that is released in the EU/US regions.

My impressions on the VT30.

The 55VT30 was slightly better in black levels than the 42VT30. The colour accuracy of both was excellent post calibration and it has a 3D CMS for the primary colours, a 10 point greyscale, 10 point gamma.

Post calibration gamma and greyscale was definately a step up from the VT20 series. Greyscale tracks much better (so in essence the whites are more accurate). Colour was similar to last years sets but with the full 3D CMS its slightly easier to hit better results.

Blacks....I believe the VT20 might hv a bery slight edge here. The VT20s were about 0.003-0.004ft/L. Visually the VT30 either look the same or very slightly above (might be the same as I did not take my Klein K-10 for actual measurement).

The 50Hz bug is still there but very very much reduced this year. Very difficult to catch actually. IR is much improved and I did not really see much at all compared to the VT20 that had a quite a bit of IR.

Now during test patterns I found it hard to see floating brightness or floating blacks. However, I did catch that there was flicker which seems the same as the VT20.

Hi guys, my center channel blocks a good chunk of the bottom border of my vt20. I know there's infrared sensors around the panel borders(not sure where exactly) to sync with the 3d glasses. Just would like to know if it will affect the 3d syncing. I don't want to raise the tv more then I have to. Thanks in advance!

that's for preventing IR issue....
and most game i play always have static energy bar/HUD and I do play for long hours.

read some article that u need to kinda exercise the plasma phosphor during first 100-200hrs. then do calibration for optimal viewing result.

I asked about VT30 from a shop today, they say it's made from Thailand compared to VT20 which is made in Japan, just asking here to make sure if it's true.

And IR is?