File under READ THE MANUAL all the way through.
I finally got around to feeding the input of my new plasma and LCD I use an external monitor through the same DVD player using a special DVD I made to tweak things so they match as much as possible AFTER doing the calibration. Due to minor varations you generally need to tweak both white and black levels ever so slightly and maybe saturation to get them to really match and you need to run the input through a signal splitter.
OK, been there done that several times before. While I was happy with the picture quality of the plasma, for the first time side by side with the LCD the brightness was less and the saturation a bit weak. Not wanting to crank the contrast up or move the black point way out of calibration I was stumped. What's wrong?
What did I do with the manual?
Hmm... buried on page 31 under reduce power consumption are four options. Guess what... if you set the power save option to yes the luminous level is suppressed, because the panel gets less power. Switch it off, bingo, now that's more like it.
I finally got around to feeding the input of my new plasma and LCD I use an external monitor through the same DVD player using a special DVD I made to tweak things so they match as much as possible AFTER doing the calibration. Due to minor varations you generally need to tweak both white and black levels ever so slightly and maybe saturation to get them to really match and you need to run the input through a signal splitter.
OK, been there done that several times before. While I was happy with the picture quality of the plasma, for the first time side by side with the LCD the brightness was less and the saturation a bit weak. Not wanting to crank the contrast up or move the black point way out of calibration I was stumped. What's wrong?
What did I do with the manual?
Hmm... buried on page 31 under reduce power consumption are four options. Guess what... if you set the power save option to yes the luminous level is suppressed, because the panel gets less power. Switch it off, bingo, now that's more like it.