Panasonic 50" Plasma problem

silverdale said:

My trusty old Panasonic plasma TH50PZ70B has been playing me up for a while now and I can't figure if it's on it's way out or there's interference from elsewhere.
What's happening is , whenever's there's bright red colour (mainly in the centre to right) a hazy moving pixelated line appears. I tends to be on brighter pictures, like there's interference from elsewhere. It reminds me on old tv's when you get bleed from other sources showing through.


I have turned all the settings on/off on the TV and tried different sources and HDMI cables and it's still there making me pretty sure it's the tv. Tbh , I've played around with it till the cows come home and now I'm wondering if it's new tv time or is there anyway to run a test or anything. I have tried to take a couple of pictures of the problem, any advise would be appreciated;-

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silverdale said:

I tried unpluggin everything ,I tried it on a ps3, satbox, Tivo and it does it on them all. I could do with a Calibration DVD of some sort see if that helps or change some things in the secret engineers menu but I don't wanna mess too much incase I screw things up.

I went into the secret menu and you can flick through different test screens i.e. blue , red, green etc. What I did notice was there was lots of dots like dead pixels . When on a white screen they were pinkish red , when on a blue test screen they were black dots and a fair few of them.
I'm not that overclued on all this but I did read something about resetting the screen by running a dvd or test or something , it kinda lost me.

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trevortron said:

How old is the set?

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miggy said:

Have a read of this and try and get the free download?. How to Calibrate Your HDTV for Better Video Quality in 30 Minutes

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silverdale said:

cheers I will have a good read of that

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