Help! Green glow in dark scenes on Panasonic Plasma!

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Help needed. I have recently bought a Panasonic 42-PZ800, to replace my old LCD. I have found, when watching dark scenes on movies, that areas which are meant to be black/dark experience a high level of what I can only describe as interference or blockiness (excuse my ignorance) and take on a green glow. This is obvious across my dvd collection in varying forms, becoming unbearable in scenes like the night-time hijack scene in Jesse James, where green blobs, like a sort of mist invaded black areas of the screen. I also notice a green clouding along the edge of the letterbox, between the image and the black bars.

I was under the impression that plasmas offered consistent rich blacks but note that this is not a problem when watching tv. Could it be my dvd player? I have a Denon dvd 1930 connected via hdmi and it was fine on my lcd.

Surely this has to be a fault. I was expecting far more from £1200 worth of plasma. Any help or advice would be hugely appreciated, as I'm pulling my hair out! 

 

 

 

[radovantz]

Check NTSC colour control (hue/tint), set to normal. tint --------------X------------- 00

or reduce brightness until the green turns black

 

[Anonymous]

Everything set according to THX Optimzer. My tint is 0 and the brightness is not excessive. The problem is too pronounced I think to be something like that, but thanks for the reply.

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Really disappointed as switched from lcd to plasma for black levels etc. Can someone restore my faith?ÿ

 

[professorhat]

I'd contact your retailer - this doesn't sound normal. It could just be a faulty set.

 

[radovantz]

Try use another HDMI cable first. Problem might be caused by HDMI system, either cable or tv

 

[nws56]

I know exactly what you mean Jon , because my Samsung plasma does the same .

No , on the lousy quality Freeview I don't see it , but DVD 's certainly . Some discs (Shawshank) are almost unwatchable. Different players improve it some extent ; a pioneer DV400 proved better than a PS3 in this regard . Even some Blu ray suffers with blue tones on what should be black ( Babel ). No amount of fiddling in the menus will shift it , but turning all of the ( useless ) processing systems off minimizes it .