Panasonic VT20 Owners Thread

Though I am running D-Nice's slides most of the time (3-4 hours in the morning and 3-4 hours in the evening) on the VT20, Will it harm the TV if I see a movie or two with Kittu's settings on Page 6 of this thread even before completing the first 200 hours ?

I desperately wanna see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 and BATMAN BEGINS on it BUT won't like to harm the TV...
 
emailnagpal said:
Though I am running D-Nice's slides most of the time (3-4 hours in the morning and 3-4 hours in the evening) on the VT20, Will it harm the TV if I see a movie or two with Kittu's settings on Page 6 of this thread even before completing the first 200 hours ?

I desperately wanna see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 and BATMAN BEGINS on it BUT won't like to harm the TV...
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You wont 'harm' the TV at all. Its just that if you want to use D-Nice's calibration settings you have to follow his break in procedure. He categorically states that his settings are not meant to prevent burn in and IR.

That said, you have two choices-

A. Follow his procedure strictly and achieve a break in sooner (100/150 hours of slides and 50/100 hours of content at low brightness/contrast settings) and also have a TV that is amenable to his calibration settings (though he is clear that these are meant for the US model only).

B. Watch all kinds of content at low brightness and contrast and also avoid black bars etc for the first 200 hours. But then you cannot be sure that D-Nice's calibration settings will get you the desired results.


I have followed A. so that I can try out his settings when I want to, with the additional benefit that I finished my break in early. Also, I ran the slides at an average of 22 hours per day, and quite thankfully the TV did not explode.
 
hey guys..... I have been new to this forum and planning to buy a new grand 50 inches plasma TV under a budget of 65k INR.... Samsung D550 was the first option unless I noticed Panasonic VT20...... As this is the VT20 users thread and members would have used the product for a while.... Can you please help me out by letting me know the wattage of this TV in practical ?? as for Samsung D550, sites says 350W and that quite a load on Electricity bills.... What is the average running wattage of VT20 if suppose we just go for SD or HD TV Channels ??? hope nobody z offended by this question in this thread... thanks in advance for your replies...
 
emailnagpal said:
Yes bro, VT has finally reached HP. Bought it from Croma, Janak Puri, Delhi for 71k. It was transported from Delhi to HP on a Toyota Innova. Also, mentioned in the thread started by me for selecting a TV and thanking all the members including you :- http://www.hifivision.com/television/16358-help-required-buying-42-tv-13.html :)

I want to use a my 600VA desktop UPS or as advised by u my home 800VA invertor in UPS mode, just while upgrading to the new firmware to avoid the risk of power failure while updating. What will be better ?

Or should I use the 600 VA UPS plugged into the socket supplied power by the 800 VA home Invertor/UPS to be doubly sure :cool:
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SUICIDAL if you do that! The 600VA UPS may well overload during the switchover time of your 800VA Home UPS. Most probably, if the 600VA one is sensitive to power fluctuations, it will also switch to battery backup mode and may trip the output if it could not supply enough power to the TV!

So you are better off connecting the TV directly to the Home UPS and you could probably connect the TV through a 1kVA or higher Servo controlled or a delayed output stabilizer (again check if stabilizer trips the H-UPS during switchover).
 
emailnagpal said:
Yes bro, VT has finally reached HP. Bought it from Croma, Janak Puri, Delhi for 71k. It was transported from Delhi to HP on a Toyota Innova. Also, mentioned in the thread started by me for selecting a TV and thanking all the members including you :- http://www.hifivision.com/television/16358-help-required-buying-42-tv-13.html :)

I want to use a my 600VA desktop UPS or as advised by u my home 800VA invertor in UPS mode, just while upgrading to the new firmware to avoid the risk of power failure while updating. What will be better ?

Or should I use the 600 VA UPS plugged into the socket supplied power by the 800 VA home Invertor/UPS to be doubly sure :cool:
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Test if the TV works on UPS without connecting the UPS to mains. If it works test if it works after connecting to the inteverter.

If the UPS does not work in the above way, use the TV on inverter without the UPS.

Before starting your upgrade ensure that you disconnect the inverter from the mains. This way there wont be switchovers and failures due to that.
 
The 600 VA UPS cannot handle the switchover, the TV turns off :(

Will try the inverter but there is no electric point near the TV connected to the inverter, have to get some extension cable first...
 
khoj said:
OT ? not at all and yes your scenario is a perfect fit for a UPS.

For anyone who needs to know the Wattage value is 3/4th of the VA rating. So a 600 VA UPS will give an output of 600 x 3 / 4 = 450W so on and so forth.
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prankey said:
I would strongly suggest going for a pure sine wave UPS (I can share few contacts to get best brands at best pricing) 1.4kVA which can give utility supply to your entire household excluding 15Amp connections. I have the same setup working great since more than 3 years now and has never had any difficulty with backup even with hours of outage (at my premises, generator runs only during 6PM to 11PM window). You could get a 42AH SMF batteries though 100AH tubular ones are best suited and usually give hours (once got more than 20 hours during a transformer failure powering small utility loads and occasional TV viewing on my 32"LCD TV with AVR setup). You would need 2x external batteries for this setup and it should be much more useful to internal battery UPS's though these Home UPS ones do not have a voltage regulator inbuilt.

You are welcome to check this setup working at my premises anytime :)
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Thanks again. I used a PF value of .75 to arrive at the UPS power rating.

Just to understand the backup time a little better, I have gathered that most home UPS with SMF batteries have a very minimal backup time at full load conditions, while by adding a external battery-array we can increase the backup time.

Also, since this influences the cost and eats up living room space, I am looking at a very short backup time, while ensuring sufficiently decent protection for my PDP and AVR.
 
karthi1000 said:
@ prankey what is the lowest quote for panasonic 3d glasses in bangalore?,shopname plz thks
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Best I could find was 8k. Try looking around and let me know if you get a better price so I could utilize my source to better that pricing. These dealers have become sensitive to sharing their location info triggering peer competition and price wars so from now on I will share the details only through PM when we are ready to close the deals.

pannags said:
Thanks again. I used a PF value of .75 to arrive at the UPS power rating.

Just to understand the backup time a little better, I have gathered that most home UPS with SMF batteries have a very minimal backup time at full load conditions, while by adding a external battery-array we can increase the backup time.

Also, since this influences the cost and eats up living room space, I am looking at a very short backup time, while ensuring sufficiently decent protection for my PDP and AVR.
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Then go for a Microtek Line Interactive UPS of 1kVA. Should be sufficient to drive the TV and a AVR. If you intend to connect a PC as well then you should look for a 1.5kVA model. Let me know when you intend to buy, we could visit SP Road and look for best pricing and go to my friend to better the best we could get (this way I don't completely rely on my contacts to give the best price all the time).

I am using APC 1kVA, while it is feature rich and more sensitive to fluctuation (we don't really need that much sensitivity for the TV and PC), it fails out of power surges and has square wave output only. And obviously it is much more expensive than Microtek (I have a 9 year old 600VA Microtek which needs battery change to resume functioning properly, however it serves well when it does without any failures or servicing till date). Microtek also has extended AVR which helps protect the battery by supplying safe utility power even during extreme voltage fluctuation. We can look for other brands as well while we look out.
 
I'm probably gonna get the Samsung 51D550 this week.
I wanted to know whether this breaking in process is necessary ? What would happen if i don't do it ?
 
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rydraj said:
I'm probably gonna get the Samsung 51D550 this week.
I wanted to know whether this breaking in process is necessary ? What would happen if i don't do it ?
How do you break in this Samsung ?
Btw, the samsung manual states that the tv has pixel shift feature, what does it do ?
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bv_abhi has a dedicated thread for Samsung 51D550, please search and post there. Kindly do not derail this thread.
 
Sorry about that, i'll post there...can you atleast say if the process is necessary and what would happen if one doesn't do it ?
 
yahooohater said:
hey guys..... I have been new to this forum and planning to buy a new grand 50 inches plasma TV under a budget of 65k INR.... Samsung D550 was the first option unless I noticed Panasonic VT20...... As this is the VT20 users thread and members would have used the product for a while.... Can you please help me out by letting me know the wattage of this TV in practical ?? as for Samsung D550, sites says 350W and that quite a load on Electricity bills.... What is the average running wattage of VT20 if suppose we just go for SD or HD TV Channels ??? hope nobody z offended by this question in this thread... thanks in advance for your replies...
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Please reply !!!!!!!! Anyone ??????

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thanks Kittu... Thanks man....

Now, I just need to compare the wattage of Samsung D550... if both are same and I am damn sure to go for plasma TV and that to 51 inches.... !!!!! just was worried about the Power ratings mentioned in Samsung's website !!!! anyhow, thanks Man for the response :) .....
 
ok.... just compared the Power ratings at the same website !!! and VT20 comes out to be more power efficient !!! gonna go for this TV now !!!!! thanks once agn Kittu boss......
 
yahooohater said:
ok.... just compared the Power ratings at the same website !!! and VT20 comes out to be more power efficient !!! gonna go for this TV now !!!!! thanks once agn Kittu boss......
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Its not as simple comparing stats from a site. Also, there you would see calibrated 2D is less power hungry on VT20, however 3D mode eats more power on VT20 than 51D550. Also, 51D550 is a clear winner in terms of 3D performance and Glasses cost!
 
prankey said:
Its not as simple comparing stats from a site. Also, there you would see calibrated 2D is less power hungry on VT20, however 3D mode eats more power on VT20 than 51D550. Also, 51D550 is a clear winner in terms of 3D performance and Glasses cost!
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we are watching vt20 for nearly 8 to 10 hours daily, which includes 2 hours of BD daily. This has resulted in an average increase of just 200rs in monthly bills, and this includes the increase in latest power tariffs from dept:mad:. considering all this i can say my bills has increased by around 160 bucks for my vt20 usage at an average usage of 8 hours a day:yahoo:
 
I upgraded VT20 to the new firmware BUT now I am not able to run Viera Cast offline, earlier the home screen of viera cast was available offline ?? :(

What can be the problem, should I try to re-install the update ?

Though, the system shows the new firmware version now...

EDIT : It is available when connected to internet, so no big issue :)
 
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