If you decide to pick up a Panasonic TC-P42X1, you’ll quickly discover how beautiful the picture can look. As you’d imagine the manufacturer isn’t going to break their necks to give you the optimal settings in order to get the best picture but below is a little guidance, courtesy of AVSForum.com:
Settings on Standard, Normal (after offsets were applied) are:
Contrast: 82
Brightness: 61
Color: 37
Tint: +7
Sharpness: 43
CATS: On
NR: off
MPEG NR: off
Black Level: Light
Also, AVS has enough information and a large enough community to help you answer almost any question you might have. To check out their coverage on other plasma HDTVs be sure to check out their Plasma Flat Panel section.
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