New TV - Sony KDL 32V4000 - Impressions soon...

[Garf]

I use more of less the same settings a lot of peeps on AV Forums seem to be using. The only exception being that I like the brightness set very slightly higher for my living room.

Here's my settings:

Mode: Movie
Backlight: 5
Contrast: 95
Brightness: 52
Colour: 50
Sharpness: Min
Colour Tone: Warm
Noise reduction: Off
Advanced contrast Enhancer: Off

I also have the power saving option set to 'On'. I have absolutely no idea what it does though as the manual doesn't say.....doesn't seem to have any negative impact on performance that I can see though!

From what I've read the digital 'enhancements' I've highlighted in bold are always best set to 'off' (or 'min'). I usually find that a slight tweaking of the brightness setting is all that's needed when I change sources.

It's all a bit subjective really but at least it gives you a starting point!!

Tom-Nook: Brightness defines the black Level of the video. Out of all the settings it can be, there's only one that's actually right. If you want to adjust things to the ambient light of your room, adjust the Backlight.

These videos are great:

http://www.avforums.com/tv/index.php?videoid=53

http://www.avforums.com/tv/index.php?videoid=50

Cheers Gents - I shall have a play tomorrow..

[Garf]

Ok, stupid question(s) time for anyone with this TV..

Got the TV today and have set it up.

1 - Am I right in thinking that I need to set the picture settings for each input individually ? Settings for TV, AV1, AV2 are all separate, correct ? (hope that makes sense)

2 - I set the settings via the Menu button, and they were fine. I then was playing with the remote and found the Tools button and realised I could set picture settings again via this button, and they were different from what I had already set (again, hope that makes sense...)

[Lyris]

1 - Am I right in thinking that I need to set the picture settings for each input individually ? Settings for TV, AV1, AV2 are all separate, correct ? (hope that makes sense)

Yes, a pain at first, but an advantage in the long term.
Some BRAVIAs had the option to make settings for one input, or for all. I think it's still there.

2: Did you change the Picture preset from the tools menu? From Custom to Vivid, for example?

[Garf]

Cheers

as for 2, I 'think' so..

To be honest, I've been playing around with it all evening, so can't be sure exactly what I've changed..

Will have another look tomorrow..

[Garf]

2: Did you change the Picture preset from the tools menu? From Custom to Vivid, for example?

To answer, yes, that's exactly what I did - I had configured one Picture Mode as I wanted it, and then had switched to another without realising it.

Thanks for that - it was bugging me for a bit...

[wod]

so what's everyone's setting as i have mine set to

Mode: cinema
Backlight: 5
Contrast: 95
Brightness: 47
Colour: 50
Sharpness: 5
Colour Tone: Warm
Noise reduction: low
Advanced contrast Enhancer: Off

[wod]

the code for the sky remote if anyone is wanting it is 0533 as i found earlier today as the tv isn't listed in the customer service thing on sky

[wod]

after having the tv for a couple of weeks its a good buy for the price as last night i reversed the rgb mod on my ps2 so i could output component and it looks very nice on this tv with the official component lead

[davidcotton]

Finally got around to ordering one of these from Jl for £299.00 Getting it saturday. Only thing is my xbox has just rrod!

[Mayhem]

The 40" W4000 arrived earlier in the week so I might adjust my settings towards these listed here.

[Dragon2k4]

I have the s4000, which is basically the same as the v4000 minus a few minor bits - i noticed that when i power on the ps3 (hdmi) from a tv channel it doesn't auto detect and switch to the ps3 channel? Yet for the scart rgb dvd player it does? I tried all 3 of the hdmi's on the telly with the ps3 and no auto-switching happens? Is this normal?

I had a panasonic viera before and it did auto-detect/switching of hdmi and scarts.

[amorenod]

Afaik, hdmi doesn't autoswitch as standard, perhaps the Panasonic used the Viera Link thingy?