Anyone have experience with the Panasonic TH-42BT300U monitor?

[Nathan Pena]

I had David from Avical do it here in LA. He was using a Photo Research PR655. He did my Panasonic BTLH2550 and the post calibration report for that was near perfect, so I assumed that the calibration for the plasma was as close as it gets. I asked him about the gamma issue, he informed me that the plasmas power management negatively the gamma, also the culprit of the dimming of the screen when displaying bright scenes. A known issue that is a result of them trying to meet energy star requirements, panasonic rep said they're working on it but we'll see.

 

[teo]

Hey Nathan,
this power managment drives me vcrazy. I just can not get any good calibrations out of it jet. Could you send me your settings?

Cheers,
Teo

 

[Gabriele Turchi]

yep the DIP (the power management thing ) make calibration for plasmas quite hard and not very accurate ...

Nathan , what system you use to profile and create the the LUT ? (and to load teh lUT )

I have the 58PF12th , and i am thinking to get the BT300 for the reason that hopefully is easier to calibrate ...

thanks
g

 

[Nathan Pena]

Hey Gabriele,

Haven't done a LUT for that monitor yet, just had it calibrated from avical, good enough for the client monitor. But I just recently took mine in to panasonic for an upgrade. They added 16 point rgb tracking which will get you really close, probably wouldn't even need to build a LUT. Worked with the PF12, with the rgb tracking on the new BT300s, there's way more controls to get a good calibration.

Nathan

 

[Gabriele Turchi]

thanks nathan ,
that sounds promising , i believe that avoiding the LUT , if possible is best .

Did you have to actually bring the 300 at the panasonic tech assistance ? (kind of big to carry around ..)

thanks

g