[crunchie]

I have a Panasonic 42PX60B and, after an ISF calibration (waste of money) and some tweaking myself at the three colour "cut" controls, the skin tones are now "better" but still nowhere near as realistic as on my iMac computer's 24" LCD screen, and certainly not as realistic or natural in colour as all of my CRT's.

My question - it possible with plasma TV technology to get a natural skin tone? Can anyone recommend any flat screen TV's that display natural skin tones?

If the "tint" control worked on PAL inputs this would be a vast improvement - do any British plasma TV's tint controls work on PAL signals as well as just NTSC? (is there a hack, maybe?).

Thanks,

Kev

[Nigel Goodwin]

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Originally Posted by crunchie

My question - it possible with plasma TV technology to get a natural skin tone? Can anyone recommend any flat screen TV's that display natural skin tones?

Probably not, the colour rendition of a Plasma screen is completely different to a CRT or LCD, and further away from the optimum colour.

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If the "tint" control worked on PAL inputs this would be a vast improvement - do any British plasma TV's tint controls work on PAL signals as well as just NTSC? (is there a hack, maybe?).

NTSC sets have tint controls because it's required due to one of the major defects of NTSC. The main difference between NTSC and PAL cures this defect, so there's no requirement for such a control.

[Geoff_W]

That's why some say that NTSC stands for "Never The Same Color."

Geoff

[Nigel Goodwin]

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Originally Posted by Geoff_W

That's why some say that NTSC stands for "Never The Same Color."

Actually "Never Twice the Same Color."

[crunchie]

It surprises me that when I play an NTSC disc I can tweak the tint and get the plasma to display beautifully natural skin tones, yet tweaking the red, green and blue cuts in the service menu gives little improvement to a PAL skin tone. Also, when I adjust the NTSC tint I find that it has no effect on black and white, whereas adjusting the R/G/B cuts in the TV's service menu to give a "better" skin tone leaves me with a black and white picture looking red/green.

If Panasonic made the tint control work on both NTSC and PAL material (as my Apple computer's DVD player does) then any shortcomings in the plasma's colour accuracy could be fixed by tweaking the tint a little. I believe in Australia they have TV's with adjustable tint on PAL - so why not here?