It's time for V.5!

Version 1 thread : https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1364412
Version 2 thread : https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1784549
Version 3 thread : https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1784549
Version 4 thread : https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...67&hl=panasonic

if i not watching 3D movie at all, should i skip those 3D TV models? i'm considering AS700k vs AS630k....

What is the price u all paid for P65ST60?

My friend said he might be able to get a unit for me

The cheapest I heard was RM7k.

7K is good price

the price quoted was RM8,800 as its very had to get one

Guys,
Anyone owned last's year model of
THL-50DT60K?
How good was the video quality? Not much review on this model and it has some black level and banding issue in one review I found.
Would it visible during watching movies?
Thks.

hello people.. i'm on a quest to find a best TV for gaming.. what do u guys think about this one?..

Panasonic 32"

so sad that my ST50 had to go, panasonic will be replacing me with LEDTV instead since they already quit plasma business. Technician mentioned it will be AS700 replacement. I freaking love this plasma

on the other hand, the technician opened the back panel and i had the chance to snap some pics.
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really out of market liao thats mean warranty also wont get it back

yes, seems like my route is back to LEDTV after all haiz. There is not even a choice given to pick other plasma model since they already out of business.
If panel problem most likely we're out of luck. My panel was imported all the way from japan. I think my 1st panel replacement is one of the last batch, manufactured August 2013.
If it's board problem still can be replaced.

Wow, this is really sad.
I thought they would have the spares for 5 years.
Maybe now they can use your parts as spares.

haha the panel definitely not be able to use for spares anymore.

So sad that plasma tech is going to an end soon. Samsung is not producing high end plasma anymore, i bet they will be quitting too in a year or two.

So, when you get your replacement tv, do you need to buy extended warranty or continue from your plasma tv?

sadly continue from where i left off from my plasma. Not yet 2years old, still got 0.5 + 3years extended to go.

Plus point is you don't have to fork out money for the extended warranty.
Just assumed that you had the LED tv for 1year +.
BTW, have you received the new tv?

Not yet, technician came and snap some pics to report back to HQ. He mentioned panasonic will call me if the decision is to replace with other model. He said i have the option to top up money on higher end/bigger screen models as well.

See what is their offer to you.
Hope they give you a good LED model.

Mine is th-42s10a and still going strong Once a year i will open up the unit, blow up everything and clean. Check components for cold joints. Now i think 5 years edy, if im not wrong lah.

This post has been edited by deejay_krish: Oct 25 2014, 10:43 PM

What happened to your plasma screen? So sad plasma is going into history, do update us what model led they replaced.

Look like the older models are more reliable than the newer models

refer back to my previous post, lots of vertical lines
https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...&#entry70769349

P65ST50 ??

50ST50

Hi all sifu, anyone here own Panasonic P60S60 or small size model?
Is this plasma really suffer under bright room condition?
I am planning to get this model and put in my room...

dont say s60 model, even st60 with anti reflection filter also suffer.
if u use inside room, turn off the light will be nice.

I see... I am struggling between this model or the other 2 LED TV.
Samsung 55H6350 and Sony 55W800.

Had my Panny S60 calibrated over the weekend by our very own master calibrator Anfieldude. He came lugging a few bags as well as what looked like a travel luggage bag loaded with gadgetry. The most impressive of which, is a pair of pricey looking colorimeters. Then, gave me a Calibration 101 for dummies explanation and fixed the white balance, gamma and CMS. The colours were very accurate and there is more pop after calibration. The red and green tinge to the picture were corrected. On top of that, he even verified the HDMI signal of my media player and AVR to make sure they're behaving as they should. True to form, the Denon AVR has been sending out a wonky signal, despite setting it to passthrough.

Turns out I've been watching Casino Royale with the wrong colour all this while. I highly recommended a calibration for anyone who has tried to get more accurate colours by copying settings from AV forums. Under the illusion that this calibrates their TV. Above all, a calibration is important for those who'd like to experience and appreciate a film's artistic vision as intended by its filmmaker. The results were quite good considering this is a budget plasma TV.

Many thanks to our legendary Anfieldude for an exceptional job on my inaugural hdtv calibration. I kind of feel bad I didn't prepare some cakes or desserts for this 4 hour calibration.

How much does it cost you?

You may PM bro anfieldude for that.

Alternatively you can do it by yourself with a low-price colorimeter like the Spyder4TV. I do that for my own at home with a Samsung LED TV (Full HD, 3D) and is more than enough for my purposes...

How much is the Spyder4TV?
When you calibrate your tv, do you just adjust the Brightness, Cantrast, Saturation and etc like what we adjust on the remote control or you need to go into the service menu to adjust the advance functions?

DIY calibration is a great idea. However, if I may, there is a thread that is stickied at the top, that I recommend the i1Display Pro and for a free software use the new fork of HCFR. The Spyder is not that an accurate a meter, the i1Display Pro is a better meter in my opinion.

IIRC,

Its not cheap .. N if like me - u r not a hands-on-technical-type of guy then itll be more frustrating than rewarding - in de end.. Better let de pros[like bro A] handle it..
Besides IMO, to buy all tis hardware/software for calibrating and do it once [ or once in a blue moon ] is kinda wasteful..

D

True also.
If the calibration cost 20% of the tv also quite costly.
Old already the eyes also weak. Cannot see clearly.
Calibrate and uncalibrate also cannot differentiate much.

Calibrated display has more NATURAL image and more pleasing to watch.

Uncalibrated display or bad setting may "tax" your vision a bit, how? Our vision is auto calibrated by the brain minimising color error, white, so things looks natural.

Our vision is more of a relative, not really with fixed parameters.

Remember the red-cyan glasses for 3d? After using it for 15 minutes, our brain will re-calibrate (error correction) for the left and right color vision, when you remove the glasses try using the left eye only then the right eye only. You'll notice the eye which on cyan glass image will look more red-ish and where the red glass is you vision is more blu-ish.

Another example, if you use COOL white setting, your ceiling florescent lamp looks yellowish, its the error correction in effect, the brain accepts what you watch most as the referrence and accepts it as TRUE. When you switch to WARM then the florescent looks much natural and has more white to it. Why? Our eyes is being used to 6500K white from the sun. Even most of our florescent is also 6500k. Some low quality white leds are 9300k tho, they appear bluish, but not to worry all display has fixed this via factory level calibration, by compensating lesser blue into RGB for white.

This post has been edited by Mea Culpa: Nov 9 2014, 01:37 AM

Anyone can give an idea how much I can resell my 65ST50 with 2 pairs of 3D glasses? Glass are almost new and TV been mounted since bought

Still under warranty, thinking of going 75/78" for the living room

What is the % change between a calibrated tv and an uncalibrated tv?

How old is your tv?
Warranty until when?
How much when you bought new?

Bought at slightly >8k April 2013, warranty till April 2015

Bro Creed,
Were u bought new previously?

thru a Panna reseller from a friend, receipt all got with online warranty verified. if u interested let me know

Bro creed,pm me yr best price.

Glad to see that the Panasonic Plasma tvs are still in demand.

That's right. It will measure iteratively the colors and tell you how to adjust your TV settings.

Well it's not to do it once. You need to repeat as the usage of your TV will change backlight conditions and the color filters/LEDs with passing time...

lol... the news reporter speaking to the microphone outside

after using bada lb3300 power conditioner to ST50, the black level has slightly improved.
but shutter become visible, i rather not using it.

I had a problem connecting macbook air with thunderbolt cable to hdmi on 65st60k. After connect no display. Tried on 50s10k, no problem. Any idea ?

I have the same situation as you with different Panasonic plasma tvs.
The only solution is to change the hdmi cable.

Strange why the same cable work on other TV.

Yupp. Its strange.
I even reported the problem to Panasonic and they send people to my house to troubleshoot it.
The repaiman even changed the interface card to test.

Oh well is no big deal. I also tried to connect to AVR instead of to TV directly and also doesn't work.

Yeah, I just get one hdmi cable from Tesco and it works fine.

i changed my power cord to a generic one without ferrite ring.
the colour and small object details are improved

Hie guys, im thinking of getting panasonic AS610K. What do you guys think? The guy selling it promoting the IPS LED super bright feature? Any other recommendation?

further using a heavvy filter and change power cord, the contrast, black level and motion has reached my satifaction IFC setting "mid" match well with my player.
plenty of time wasted but learned a lot in the progress

If you guys remember my story on v4 thread the technician mentioned will replace my 50ST50 with LEDTV AS700 but somehow Panasonic managed to find panel replacement. This is my 2nd time panel replacement.

Original unit 1st panel batch dated August 2012
2nd panel batch August 2013
3rd replacement batch Dec 2013

My guess probably this is last and final batch.

What i'm happy about - Yay still plasma not LEDTV replacement!
What i'm worried about - Doubtful if the vertical line issue will appear again Official warranty ending May2015, after that is insurance extended warranty.

-double posted-

This post has been edited by crayzee: Dec 20 2014, 05:00 PM

mine warranty be end march 2015.

invest a surge protector or line filter may help. wish u and plasma have a long journey to come

This post has been edited by ktek: Dec 21 2014, 03:12 PM

Anyone knows where can still purchase a pana vt60 in KL or Melaka? My G11 pana plasma is dying soon. Thanks.

You can try Harvey Norman

Have checked HN in KL and saw no plasma available except LEDs. Any more places?

Display set in Nan Hong Seremban want or not? HD ready only.
Guess that was the last plasma I still can see in Seremban. I'm also sourcing for plasma, but after have a chat with service center's people, guess I need to get LED.

You need to ask them to check stock. Most likely they have some display set

Not sure if you still sticking with Pana. HN Nu Sentral has plasma on display but they are Samsung.

Looks like only display set available and no bnib set. Sigh... Should have grab one last year. Looks like led is inevitable. Hear the new pana ax800 or 900 offers plasma-que PQ.

They can't possibly sell you bnib price right?

I'm still banging my head on not getting it last year

Thanks catsper. I would prefer a pana.

hopes so, plasma pq is high challenge.

i just give st50 a power line heavvy filter again, this time i can use ifc highest setting without motion judder or fast forward.
almost perfect 24hz to 60hz. Old video are worth to re-watch again becos i have missed out a lot frame skipped from ifc off or mid setting

deeper black is produced. i dont even need to add sharpness (value 0). All the small details are appear by itself.

btw, mine is not calibrated set.

Plasma are good on black over black(black hair over black wall), LED and LCD won't able to reproduce this.

Yesterday pana technician came over to my house and took my plasma st50 which is still under warranty coz got vertical line problem. The technician said it will take 1 week for repairing.

Since panasonic Plasma already EOL, do they replace my plasma with other model if they cannot repair my plasma?

If no more stock for the panel, Pana will replace with equivalent size and value of your plasma with LEDTV (with option to topup for better model). Plasma panel replacement is fast, 1.5hour done at my home.

For my case i got a Dec2013 batch panel for my last panel replacement.

That's 1 year liao and they stop production already

bro, panasonic already quit plasma business in 2013,
sales of plasma stopped in march-april 2014 until stock finish
you most probably wont be able to buy new panasonic plasma anymore except display model/old stock

And to put salt on the wound, that's only HD ready only display set

Today (31/12/14) I discovered there are 2 vertical lines (at first only one) on my ST50 which I bought on 4 Jan 2013 and warranty expired on 04/01/2015.

But today 01/01/15, there is another new vertical line appear beside the first line.

This post has been edited by kingkong1: Jan 1 2015, 11:18 PM

Looks like the good plasma models are plagued with pending defect.

BTW, which contact no to call for warranty claim? Shah Alam or PJ?

HI, I just got my 42AS610K. Seems like it causes inconvenience to me. It replaces my previous plasma tv.

Firstly, this smart tv claims that it can do screen mirroring. As soon as i got this tv, i try to do mirroring with my Samsung Note 2. In the end, it fails due to hardware issue. I ask the technician and the technician also not sure about it.

Secondly, this tv doesn't has a vga port. So i bought vga hdmi converter from Lazada so that my pc can connect to this tv (as my monitor). However, once i connect it to the tv, the screen is black! Hm...i call Lazada to ask whether the converter is not functioning, they told me that i need to configure the setting of the resolution. Is it true?? cos my previous plasma viera tv can auto detect it without doing any resolution configuration.

Anyone has any idea / solutions on my 2 issues?

usually cheap one is hdmi to vga, cannot do reverse way.

Oh no...just found out that i bought hdmi to vga converter but not vga to hdmi converter!!!

Thanks pointing out.

I saw Panasonic 60a430 for rm3450 cash and carry, how is the quality of this TV? I understand that this is a non smart TV, but that's all I need. Appreciate the feedback, thank you.

This post has been edited by edministrator: Jan 13 2015, 11:01 AM

Hi owners,
Need feedback from you guys. Have you encountered any issue with Plasma ST60K since you purchased it? Any issue with vertical lines, panel replacement, hdmi port issue and so forth?

Appreciate your feedback. Thanks

So far after 1 year, all is good. Touch wood

This post has been edited by sonerin: Jan 18 2015, 12:06 PM

Just got a My Cloud Mirror. Planning to set up streaming movies from My Cloud to my Pana TV. Need a USB wifi for the connection.

Like to know which USB Wifi would you recommend and price.

Reliable or better stick with cable for speed and reliability?

Thanks.

This post has been edited by plumberly: Jan 19 2015, 07:39 AM

Sometimes voltage recalibration using the service mode .. MAY fix it. However most ended up with panel replacement, a change in voltage output from the power board (dying power supply) can damaged the panel. Even powersupply replacement might require voltage outputs adjustments , on the power board based on the panel spec.

If they dont find out what is causing the damage even with a new panel it will eventually fail too just like the first one.

This post has been edited by Mea Culpa: Jan 21 2015, 09:52 AM

Hi Mea Culpa, I agreed with you thought. As I'm facing the same issue. My unit has the vertical line problem on last year September and repaired under the warranty. But recently same ST60 unit encountered same vertical line problem. Very unlucky, my warranty just expired. So can't do anything now, just leave it like that.

Hi, i would like to ans the recent owner of panasonic ips led tv. according to one salesman, their recent ips led is not the same as previous. the view angle not so promising and also the brightness of the panel is darker than previous.

anyone know about this?

all ips panels are able to perform 178/178 degree view angle. the problem is NOT all panasonic come with ips lo.
what u can try is swipe finger in front of screen to verify it.
brightness test in showroom is not very useful, factory settings are inconsistence from batch to batch.

also u will notice certain panel cutting size only exclusive to ips (40 vs 42, 46 vs 47 etc..)

stumbled upon 60A430K as well, seems not much review on this model. Anyone has any comment on this basic full hd tv?

would be a great upgrade to my 42" Pana LCD TV for my living room. How much does the model cost at your place?

Saw it during jusco member day. If I remember correctly it's RM3799, minus free jusco vouchers, RM3499.

Mine from 1 line grew into 50++ lines in just few months. Just a heads up. Mine suffered twice. Currently on 3rd panel. If like what Mea Culpa mentioned, if they didn't do voltage callibration, means my 3rd panel will end up the same fate again as well

Finally my 50A410 arrived. Play with it and very nice. The tuner is better than my JVC CRT. Loose HDMI connection will result to snow screen. Have to user a paper to stuck it and solve the problem

This post has been edited by supersound: Feb 17 2015, 07:38 PM

Anyone knows where i can find 60A430K? I went to a few shops and all out of stock

Phased out already or because of new year?