3D Panasonic plasma made me a believer.

[Poultrygeist]

When looking for a new HDTV I wrote off 3D as just another hyped fad. The reasons I purchased the Panny 55ST30 were based on it's great picture, great reviews and the fact that it offered more features at a lower price. I seriously doubted I'd even use the 3D option except for the times the grand kids came over. But how wrong I was!

The Panny came with the "Avatar" 3D plus two sets of glasses. I bought an economy priced 3D player just so I could at least check out the 3D and I'm so glad I did. Watching Avatar on 3D was like an out of body experience for me.

If you haven't seen a 3D Panasonic outside of a lousy big box store demo you are in for a serious treat. And now that Directv has several free 3D stations that deliver a stunning picture I am seriously hooked.

[Woochifer]

Great to hear that you're enjoying the TV and the 3D function. Seems that Avatar is a reference standard for image and sound quality no matter what format it's on.

As with HD, it seems that most store demos do a poor job at conveying what the 3D format is truly capable of. When I was shopping for a HDTV, I had to adjust most of the TVs just so I could actually look at a somewhat comparable picture when trying to decide between different sets. Fortunately, I've calibrated all my TVs for more than 10 years, so I know what the reference spec is supposed to look like. But, a lot of consumers don't have that reference available to make the adjustments, so they're left with the defaults.

The manufacturers are partly at fault for purposely overbrightening and sharpening the default picture settings in order to stand out in a brightly lit showroom. But, the stores also share the blame by placing the TVs in a less-than-ideal setting (i.e., warehouse with flood lighting), and feeding them poor quality demo loops rather than actual program feeds directly from a source.

With 3D, I run into the exact same issues, with TV not properly setup, and very often I notice that the shutter glasses are not charged. With this kind of indifferent attention to detail, it's easy for a 3D demo to go awry, if the consumer does not know what good 3D is supposed to look like.

[Poultrygeist]

James Cameron, writer and director, even lists his custom settings to view 3D Avatar on the Panasonic plasma website.

[Woochifer]

James Cameron, writer and director, even lists his custom settings to view 3D Avatar on the Panasonic plasma website.

No surprise there, considering his fanatical attention to detail during the post production for Avatar, with separate color profiles used during the mastering process for multiple 3D processes, theater configurations, and output formats.

[pixelthis]

AH YES, an entire generation of crossed eyes and migrane
sufferers.
3D is great in IMAX, the new TRANSFORMERS movie is a
must see, not only a great thrill ride, but a great story as well.
NOT SHAKESPEARE, maybe ripped him off a bit(who doesn't?)
but very enjoyable.
AND HOME 3D is still a bad call, IMHO. Just wondering,
since plasma is so dark anyway, with the loss from 3d how on earth do you see anything?:1:

[Woochifer]

AH YES, an entire generation of crossed eyes and migrane
sufferers.

Sounds like your state of mind when you keep reposting your usual uninformed nonsense about 3D and plasma TVs, among other topics.


3D is great in IMAX, the new TRANSFORMERS movie is a
must see, not only a great thrill ride, but a great story as well.
NOT SHAKESPEARE, maybe ripped him off a bit(who doesn't?)
but very enjoyable.
AND HOME 3D is still a bad call, IMHO.

So, if 3D at your local IMAX Lite theater is "great" how is home 3D a "bad call"? Given that Poultrygeist actually owns a 3D TV and provided first hand impressions using credible calibration settings, I'll take his word over your contradictory rants anyday. :ihih:


Just wondering,
since plasma is so dark anyway, with the loss from 3d how on earth do you see anything?:1:

The world is not so dark when you try opening your eyes for a change. :crazy:

[pixelthis]

Sounds like your state of mind when you keep reposting your usual uninformed nonsense about 3D and plasma TVs, among other topics.




So, if 3D at your local IMAX Lite theater is "great" how is home 3D a "bad call"? Given that Poultrygeist actually owns a 3D TV and provided first hand impressions using credible calibration settings, I'll take his word over your contradictory rants anyday. :ihih:

ONE IS TWO TO THREE HOURS, one is an entire evening

The world is not so dark when you try opening your eyes for a change. :crazy:

FUNNEE. Really, when I WATCHED THOR it was very dark,
which made TRANSFORMERS A PLEASANT SURPRIZE,
very bright.
ONE THING about the "new" 3D(basically computer enhanced
polarized system) its quality is very inconsistent. But fine for
a 3D monitor rollout!!
Talk about not ready for prime time!:1:

[Woochifer]

ONE IS TWO TO THREE HOURS, one is an entire evening

Wait, so watching a half hour sitcom is an "entire evening"? Or does an "entire evening" entail a marathon session of prison documentaries? Or is an "entire evening" watching a "two to three" hour movie at home? You can't even get your own definitions straight. :out:


ONE THING about the "new" 3D(basically computer enhanced
polarized system) its quality is very inconsistent. But fine for
a 3D monitor rollout!!
Talk about not ready for prime time!:1:

Ho hum, just another round of regurgitating your usual uninformed talking points. The only thing "inconsistent" is the setup with in-store demos. Poultrygeist's observations indicate how 3D looks with a calibrated set and a good source -- something that you have zero experience with.

[Poultrygeist]

Within three years I would expect every large screen HDTV to offer the 3D feature.

I'm already viewing several 3D stations on Directv and looking forward to football on ESPN3D this fall.

[bobsticks]

Wait, so watching a half hour sitcom is an "entire evening"? Or does an "entire evening" entail a marathon session of prison documentaries? Or is an "entire evening" watching a "two to three" hour movie at home? You can't even get your own definitions straight. :out: ...

I would imagine "an entire evening" is watching half an Archie Bunker rerun until the Thorazine kicks in...

[Worf101]

If you're happy and you're enjoying your purchase AND 3D.. then guess what? I'm happy! Simple as that. I can't see in 3D as a result of injuries suffered while in service. I can only see out of one eye at a time. Limited depth perception. I wish I could see it just once but it ain't gonna happen. Sooooo.. I'm happy for anyone who CAN enjoy 3D and likes it.

Worf

[Sir Terrence the Terrible]

Chicken type individual, thank you for your first hand testimony on how good 3D can be when the set is properly calibrated for the task. I appreciate FIRST HAND experience over the musing of a person who has had so little exposure to 3D, their opinion on the technology can easily be dismissed as written ca ca.

I have been using Panasonic's 65" pro 3D models not only at home, but in the audio editing rooms of my studio. I have both LCD 3D models, and plasma 3D models, and plasma has LCD beat n this respect, and in many respects. Panasonic plasma televisions in particular are especially good at both 2D and 3D performance.

Enjoy your set, cause I sure am enjoying mine!

[Sir Terrence the Terrible]

I would imagine "an entire evening" is watching half an Archie Bunker rerun until the Thorazine kicks in...

Snicker, snicker(as shoulders hunch up and down)

[Hyfi]

If you're happy and you're enjoying your purchase AND 3D.. then guess what? I'm happy! Simple as that. I can't see in 3D as a result of injuries suffered while in service. I can only see out of one eye at a time. Limited depth perception. I wish I could see it just once but it ain't gonna happen. Sooooo.. I'm happy for anyone who CAN enjoy 3D and likes it.

Worf

Worf,

Sorry to hear of this impairment you got courtesy of our military.

I recently (2 months ago maybe) heard an interview on NPR with a woman who was born without the ability to see in 3d, similar to what you describe. After much failed therapy and anything else she could try, she somehow trained herself little by little with some exercises to be able to gain the ability.

I do not remember her name or the book name but possibly a search on NPRs site may yield a result.

[Worf101]

Worf,

Sorry to hear of this impairment you got courtesy of our military.

I recently (2 months ago maybe) heard an interview on NPR with a woman who was born without the ability to see in 3d, similar to what you describe. After much failed therapy and anything else she could try, she somehow trained herself little by little with some exercises to be able to gain the ability.

I do not remember her name or the book name but possibly a search on NPRs site may yield a result.Hey, I appreciate your concern and the information. I'll look into it. Not sure what it'll entail but hey, "the only thing that beats failure is a good try" as my Daddy used to say.

Worf

[pixelthis]

Wait, so watching a half hour sitcom is an "entire evening"? Or does an "entire evening" entail a marathon session of prison documentaries? Or is an "entire evening" watching a "two to three" hour movie at home? You can't even get your own definitions straight. :out:



Ho hum, just another round of regurgitating your usual uninformed talking points. The only thing "inconsistent" is the setup with in-store demos. Poultrygeist's observations indicate how 3D looks with a calibrated set and a good source -- something that you have zero experience with.

You must be very young or very stupid, the way you enjoy "assuming" things.
WHEN my main store reopened I was invited to check out the HT rooms,
six with different systems.
ONE was an eighty two " MITS DLP, perfectly "calibrated"
by one of the techs that worked there, at least the best they
could do, anyway.
WATCHED it for several hours, at least as long as I could
until the headaches kicked in.
PEOPLE actually believe these sets are safe, which means you can watch them just like a "2d" set, you think aspartame
and FORD PINTOS would have taught them something.
Out of two experiences in a "perfectly" calibrated(sorry, "assuming" things is your dept) I have had one bad and one good experience, that is a fifty percent failure rate.
I KNOW the "system" is "new"(warmed over polarized glasses
tech) especially to those such as yourself that doesn't know any better(CAPTAIN EO at DISNEY WORLD used the same system
over twenty years ago) but its nothing new under the sun to those
who have been around the block not once but several times.
THE "NEW" 3d System(s) are one thing for sure, a full employment plan for lawyers.
AND I will have the last laugh, as usual.
BUT YOU PROBABLY VOTED for Obama, so noit much can be expected, I GUESS.:1:

[pixelthis]

Chicken type individual, thank you for your first hand testimony on how good 3D can be when the set is properly calibrated for the task. I appreciate FIRST HAND experience over the musing of a person who has had so little exposure to 3D, their opinion on the technology can easily be dismissed as written ca ca.

I have been using Panasonic's 65" pro 3D models not only at home, but in the audio editing rooms of my studio. I have both LCD 3D models, and plasma 3D models, and plasma has LCD beat n this respect, and in many respects. Panasonic plasma televisions in particular are especially good at both 2D and 3D performance.

Enjoy your set, cause I sure am enjoying mine!

if you actually had as many electronic devices as you claim
it would be like living in a BEST BUY.
You might be sleeping out in back of one...:1:

[Woochifer]

You must be very young or very stupid, the way you enjoy "assuming" things.

Quite easy to make assumptions, given your inane ramblings.


WHEN my main store reopened I was invited to check out the HT rooms,
six with different systems.
ONE was an eighty two " MITS DLP, perfectly "calibrated"
by one of the techs that worked there, at least the best they
could do, anyway.

Given that your definition of "calibrated" entails nothing more than eyeballing, and you've resorted to attacking me in the past for using a calibration disc, a little skepticism about your observations on "perfectly calibrated" is in order. :out:


WATCHED it for several hours, at least as long as I could
until the headaches kicked in.

So, what were you actually watching? And how many hours equals "several" (given that you think that TV watching consumes an "entire evening")?


PEOPLE actually believe these sets are safe, which means you can watch them just like a "2d" set, you think aspartame

Oh yeah, they're ssssooooooooo dangerous! Is it the drugs, or do you have some childhood trauma you want to share with us? :out:


Out of two experiences in a "perfectly" calibrated(sorry, "assuming" things is your dept) I have had one bad and one good experience, that is a fifty percent failure rate.

Nope, the "perfect" calibration is your assumption. You don't use calibration tools, so how would you know that the picture was properly calibrated in the first place, or that some other customer in the store didn't hit the reset button and erase all of the "perfect" settings?


I KNOW the "system" is "new"(warmed over polarized glasses
tech) especially to those such as yourself that doesn't know any better(CAPTAIN EO at DISNEY WORLD used the same system
over twenty years ago) but its nothing new under the sun to those
who have been around the block not once but several times.
THE "NEW" 3d System(s) are one thing for sure, a full employment plan for lawyers.
AND I will have the last laugh, as usual.
BUT YOU PROBABLY VOTED for Obama, so noit much can be expected, I GUESS.:1:

Leave it up to you to derail another topic into an idiotic political rant. Those conspiratorial whispers in your head must be rather annoying at this time of day. :out:

[Sir Terrence the Terrible]

if you actually had as many electronic devices as you claim
it would be like living in a BEST BUY.
You might be sleeping out in back of one...:1:

I guess if your highest frame of reference is Best Buy, then your audio and video world is much too small and limited. The level of lifestyle integration, and the performance and quality I expect would not be found in a Best Buy store.

Best Buy does not sell beds or a bedroom like environment, so it is not likely a place where I would think of sleeping. Perhaps is it time to back away from the medication.

[Poultrygeist]

Worf,

I take it you have limited vision in at least one eye. With only one good eye we see in 2D and depth perception becomes so impaired it may be considered a vocational disability for many jobs.

If a person is 20/20 in their best eye and the other is only correctable to 20/200 it still represents a 25% loss of vision based upon disability standards. Legal blindness is considered 20/200 in both eyes after best correction and automatically qualifies one for Social Security Disability benefits. Total blindness is very rare as most people considered as "blind" have some vision.

[pixelthis]

I guess if your highest frame of reference is Best Buy, then your audio and video world is much too small and limited. The level of lifestyle integration, and the performance and quality I expect would not be found in a Best Buy store.

Best Buy does not sell beds or a bedroom like environment, so it is not likely a place where I would think of sleeping. Perhaps is it time to back away from the medication.

As usual you have no comprehension of what I SAID, guess they cover reading comprehension in high school.:1:

[pixelthis]

[QUOTE=Woochifer;364525]Quite easy to make assumptions, given your inane ramblings.


WHICH ARE more "ane" than your silly silly nonsense



Given that your definition of "calibrated" entails nothing more than eyeballing, and you've resorted to attacking me in the past for using a calibration disc, a little skepticism about your observations on "perfectly calibrated" is in order. :out:



MORE viciousness from mr "nice" guy. I THINK someone
who has worked on sets for decades can calibrate one.
AND i don't really care if you do "calibrate a tv". THE RESULTS
must be quite amusing.


So, what were you actually watching? And how many hours equals "several" (given that you think that TV watching consumes an "entire evening")?


DEMO blu ray, travelougs and coming atractions


Oh yeah, they're ssssooooooooo dangerous! Is it the drugs, or do you have some childhood trauma you want to share with us? :out:


Bookmarking this so you can eat a word sandwich later.


Nope, the "perfect" calibration is your assumption. You don't use calibration tools, so how would you know that the picture was properly calibrated in the first place, or that some other customer in the store didn't hit the reset button and erase all of the "perfect" settings?


There were no customers. And thanks to OBAMANOMICS
there never will be. ALMOST as deadly was the tornado
which wiped out the consumer electronics market for
months. I WAS INVITED over as an old customer who had bout quite a bit there. THE STORE never made it to opening, sadly,
like you did not make your GED.:1:


Leave it up to you to derail another topic into an idiotic political rant. Those conspiratorial whispers in your head must be rather annoying at this time of day. :out:
NO "CONSPIRACY" , JUST HUMAN IGNORANCE AND GREED.
Wait until half the people have a new tech, then hit em with warmed over tech that's been around for forever, has never been tried in large doses, but causes headaches in smaller ones.
Deny , deny, deny.
THEY DECIDED that paying out lawsuits was cheaper than
fixing the PINTO, the death toll was irrelevant.
AND aspartame turns into wood achcohol in your system,
causing nerve damage, but so what?
And the same people who bought you "needlevision", ELCASSETTE, HDDVD and so forth now unveils the latest
gimmick, and hope to make a bit more than the lawsuits are
going to cost.:1:

[Woochifer]

WHICH ARE more "ane" than your silly silly nonsense

Like I said, your inane ramblings make it all too easy. :lol:


MORE viciousness from mr "nice" guy. I THINK someone
who has worked on sets for decades can calibrate one.

In other words, you really don't have a clue whether the settings were as "perfect" as you claim. I guess truth is now considered viciousness in your paranoid world view.


AND i don't really care if you do "calibrate a tv".

Of course you don't care, because you don't have a clue what a calibrated set is supposed to look like. The fact that you've attacked me for using a calibration disc says all that needs to be said about your ignorance on what calibration actually means.


THE RESULTS
must be quite amusing.

Yeah, my results are better than what I see in nearly every place that sells TVs, which is nothing new since I've been calibrating my TVs for more than 10 years. Only those few stores that keep their TVs calibrated and rechecked have comparable picture quality. Many people that come over to my house have asked why my TV looks better than what they have at home, and I simply point out the difference between the default settings and calibrated settings. And I've lent out my calibration discs, with everyone who used them noting a major improvement in picture quality afterwards.


DEMO blu ray, travelougs and coming atractions

And you were watching these same demo reels looping for hours on end? Or were you lying about the viewing time too?


There were no customers. And thanks to OBAMANOMICS
there never will be. ALMOST as deadly was the tornado
which wiped out the consumer electronics market for
months. I WAS INVITED over as an old customer who had bout quite a bit there. THE STORE never made it to opening, sadly,
like you did not make your GED.:1:

NO "CONSPIRACY" , JUST HUMAN IGNORANCE AND GREED.
Wait until half the people have a new tech, then hit em with warmed over tech that's been around for forever, has never been tried in large doses, but causes headaches in smaller ones.
Deny , deny, deny.
THEY DECIDED that paying out lawsuits was cheaper than
fixing the PINTO, the death toll was irrelevant.
AND aspartame turns into wood achcohol in your system,
causing nerve damage, but so what?
And the same people who bought you "needlevision", ELCASSETTE, HDDVD and so forth now unveils the latest
gimmick, and hope to make a bit more than the lawsuits are
going to cost.:1:

Just more cut-and-paste political nonsense to divert attention from your cluelessness on the original topic -- rant, wash, rinse, repeat. Nothing new from you. :1:

[pixelthis]

Like I said, your inane ramblings make it all too easy. :lol:



In other words, you really don't have a clue whether the settings were as "perfect" as you claim. I guess truth is now considered viciousness in your paranoid world view.



Of course you don't care, because you don't have a clue what a calibrated set is supposed to look like. The fact that you've attacked me for using a calibration disc says all that needs to be said about your ignorance on what calibration actually means.



Yeah, my results are better than what I see in nearly every place that sells TVs, which is nothing new since I've been calibrating my TVs for more than 10 years. Only those few stores that keep their TVs calibrated and rechecked have comparable picture quality. Many people that come over to my house have asked why my TV looks better than what they have at home, and I simply point out the difference between the default settings and calibrated settings. And I've lent out my calibration discs, with everyone who used them noting a major improvement in picture quality afterwards.



And you were watching these same demo reels looping for hours on end? Or were you lying about the viewing time too?



Just more cut-and-paste political nonsense to divert attention from your cluelessness on the original topic -- rant, wash, rinse, repeat. Nothing new from you. :1:

NOT SO "clueless" as to be an unpaid lab rat for a tech that has
crashed and burned more than socialist utopias.
SHOULD not care, when the lawyers are getting rich and you
are seeing a therapist to learn how to see normally it will almost be funny.
ALMOST.:1:

[Johnny B. Galt]

Poultrygeist- How do you like the physical appearance of the ST? I've read reviews of it being "chunky" and the shiny bezel being distracting. Do you even notice? That's about the only thing holding me back right now. Since I'm getting a new set I almost think it should look sleek... I know, a minor and petty thing when the picture is what really matters...

[Woochifer]

Just more cut-and-paste political nonsense to divert attention from your cluelessness on the original topic -- rant, wash, rinse, repeat. Nothing new from you.


NOT SO "clueless" as to be an unpaid lab rat for a tech that has
crashed and burned more than socialist utopias.
SHOULD not care, when the lawyers are getting rich and you
are seeing a therapist to learn how to see normally it will almost be funny.
ALMOST.:1:

Thanks for proving my point. :cool:

[Woochifer]

Poultrygeist- How do you like the physical appearance of the ST? I've read reviews of it being "chunky" and the shiny bezel being distracting. Do you even notice? That's about the only thing holding me back right now. Since I'm getting a new set I almost think it should look sleek... I know, a minor and petty thing when the picture is what really matters...

You could also try looking up Costco's offerings. I know that in prior years (including my model), the TVs that Panasonic sold through Costco were renumbered and fitted with matte bezels. My TV is the exact same Panasonic model that was sold at other retailers, except that it added a PC input and replaced the shiny bezel.

[Poultrygeist]

The bezel on the ST is a handsome piano gloss black which isn't a problem for me. Rather than clunky I'd say it looks substantial. I like the large bezel as I like my pictures in frames. Don't think I could get use to those frameless models.

There were some screen reflections from the adjoining room windows but two $7 room darkening curtains from Walmart fixed that.

This 55 inch fits perfectly on the really nice stand I bought from Sams Club for $199. This stand beats anything I saw at Best Buy and hhgregg.

I couldn't be happier with this purchase..

[pixelthis]

The bezel on the ST is a handsome piano gloss black which isn't a problem for me. Rather than clunky I'd say it looks substantial. I like the large bezel as I like my pictures in frames. Don't think I could get use to those frameless models.

There were some screen reflections from the adjoining room windows but two $7 room darkening curtains from Walmart fixed that.

This 55 inch fits perfectly on the really nice stand I bought from Sams Club for $199. This stand beats anything I saw at Best Buy and hhgregg.

I couldn't be happier with this purchase..

IT HAS to be "substantial" to hide the much more bulky glass envelope that is a plasma screen.:1:

[pixelthis]

Thanks for proving my point. :cool:

IF YOU'RE talking about the one on top of your head ,
glad to oblige.
ACTUALLY 3D and plasma go together nicely, as both are going to be in the technological graveyard before you know it.:1:

[Woochifer]

IF YOU'RE talking about the one on top of your head ,
glad to oblige.
ACTUALLY 3D and plasma go together nicely, as both are going to be in the technological graveyard before you know it.:1:

As usual, nothing new to add to the topic. That conversation with the voices inside your head must be quite a riot :out:

[pixelthis]

As usual, nothing new to add to the topic. That conversation with the voices inside your head must be quite a riot :out:

AT LEAST I have something inside my head. AND you don't have anything new to add either, save gushing praise for
plasma because it resembles the phosper based CRT you grew up with, and 3D because you don't recognize rehashed antique tech
that should have Edsel as a brand name. :1:

[Woochifer]

AT LEAST I have something inside my head. AND you don't have anything new to add either, save gushing praise for
plasma because it resembles the phosper based CRT you grew up with, and 3D because you don't recognize rehashed antique tech
that should have Edsel as a brand name. :1:

Repeat yourself much? Or are you doing your double posting trick yet again? :3: