Panasonic TH42PX80 Best Settings

Unfortunately most televisions do not have the best settings out of the box, and the Panasonic TH42PX80 is the same. This is because the manufacturers and retailers prefer to display the television in "Dynamic" mode that generate very vibrant and vivid images to attract more attention in the shop front, but fail miserably in terms of tolerability and accuracy when the TV is brought back home to a dimmer environment.

Fortunately, just by clicking a couple of keys on your infrared remote control, you can solve this issue. On your Panasonic TH42PX80, you should choose the "Cinema" mode, and then change "Colour Balance" to Warm.

To the eyes of most viewers, the resulting image will look too yellow initially, but this is because most people have been brainwashed by dealers and manufacturers who purposely use brighter but inaccurate "blue" colour temperature to attract sales. For those of you who are interested, the colour white is actually a spectrum... the colour of a piece of white paper is different depending on whether it is shone upon by a fluorescent light, tungsten light or daylight.

In broadcast and movie studios, the colour temperature that has been adopted as standard is D65, which corresponds to the light of the Northern arctic around noontime. This is because D65 allows for colour errors inside the movies or films to be detected easily for correction later. If you want to see what the movie directors and producers want you to see, you should adhere to the D65 colour temperature standard.

And it just so happens that the "Cinema" mode and "Colour Balance" Warm on the Panasonic TH42PX80 gives it the colour temperature closest to D65. Give it some time, get used to the tint which may look yellow at first, and one week down the line you will realise that this is the right method to see pictures the way they're meant to be seen, and that you have been seeing incorrect over-blue pictures in the past.