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Originally Posted by old_tv_nut
1) DC restoration may not be perfect in this chassis - if not, you just have to live with it.
2) The black setup level in the source may be slightly off - do you get the same effect for all sources?
3) Are you sure it's changing? Adjusting to make black details visible on a bright picture in a completely dark room can cause you to raise it slightly to compete with optical flare in your eyes. You should set it to be correct with average pictures and not worry about the no-content case, unless you are seeing it come up to an objectionable level when content contains a fade to black.
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1) That's ok if it is. The key is to get a good enough calibration that shows the picture as intended.
2) I have two calibrations, one for 7.5 IRE and one for 0 IRE, and the sources give solid black floors in those ranges.
3) When there's a fade to black, it is slightly gray in a dark room. If I calibrate purely by picture content (slightly brighter) then it's slightly more gray. The opposite is true if I calibrate by a completely black picture.
I suppose I should just calibrate by the picture and leave it be.
For whoever suggested getting a higher-end set, I've been on the hunt for an early '90s KV-20V50, KV-20EXR20, or KV-20V60 (20" XBRs essentially) for 4 years now. Not once has it popped up on CL, thrift, or anywhere else. Almost everything is late '90s to SPC era or bigger than 20". The only reason I have this Panasonic is that after it was replaced by an HDTV by my family, it was stored in the basement ever since and I just happened to come across it. I always liked it and couldn't go without it.
It really is a nice TV otherwise. I had a KV-20V80 from '99 and, for whatever reason, this Panasonic pulled a better and sharper picture from RF than the 20V80 did from composite of the same source. There was no dot crawl on the V80 admittedly, but the picture was awful and blurry. I attributed it to an early digital comb filter in the V80 that removed crawl way too aggressively.