Panasonic EX750 Owners Thread

Just shows how wide ranging these TVs are..... I have a 50" model and all the settings given by blackwiggle etc have Warm 1 as the preferred colour temp but warm 1 on my set is very very creamy rather than white. To get a brilliant white I have to use the blackwiggle settings but with normal rather than warm 1 and even then when it's with true cinema mode it has a slight cream tinge to it.

For HDR I use either Dynamic with warm 1 with a couple of slight tweaks or the custom option with warm 1 or normal which is then tweaked to be similar to Dynamic but with the ability to unlock the locked options within the picture settings that are unavailable in dynamic mode.

Neither of them has a blue cast unless I change colour temp to cool.
 
So I've put your recommendation in under the cinema preset and the pictures great. Still lots of pop and great colours . I always use War for the Planet of the Apes as my reference disc simply because of the diversity of colours and shades. Deep deep blacks in the caves with bursts of great HDR. Then warmy sunset colours followed by the snow scenes. And this is where the Cinema set you described shone.

Flicking between my Dynamic mode settings and Cinema revealed very little differences in the darker scenes. The sunset scenes equally very much the same. But the snow. You don't there is a blue tint until you compare it to the cinema settings. Huge difference and shows how off the white balance is on this tv. So big thanks here. If you could amend white balance on dynamic mode I'm convinced you would get an identical looking picture.

I have to use Warm1 as my colour temp. Warm2 is too warm and orangy and I'm not a fan of the cinema tint that's recomended. Normal is okay for some settings but as mentioned above each panel is different.

But again, big thanks .I think I've finally got the image I want .
 
Hi all

Just wondering if anyone knows where I can get a spare screw from for the ex750 stand due to the currys technician rounding the screw :mad::mad: Currys do not have any and panasonic do not send them out either which sounds bizarre. It is a black screw that attaches the stands backplate to the TV. It has 2 little washers on and there is 4 in total. I am losing the world to live.

Thanks in advance
 
Just shows how wide ranging these TVs are..... I have a 50" model and all the settings given by blackwiggle etc have Warm 1 as the preferred colour temp but warm 1 on my set is very very creamy rather than white. To get a brilliant white I have to use the blackwiggle settings but with normal rather than warm 1 and even then when it's with true cinema mode it has a slight cream tinge to it.

For HDR I use either Dynamic with warm 1 with a couple of slight tweaks or the custom option with warm 1 or normal which is then tweaked to be similar to Dynamic but with the ability to unlock the locked options within the picture settings that are unavailable in dynamic mode.

Neither of them has a blue cast unless I change colour temp to cool.
Blackwiggle did his calibration when his set was only a couple of weeks old and he was complaining of an absence of red. I advised that the tv would need to be allowed several weeks to settle in - because the colours on mine shifted for ages. He was going to do another calibration later but never did (at least not posted on the forum).
On my set it was an excellent picture but way too pink/orange/red. But I could see that he had almost nailed it - his gamma corrections are amazing and really improve the picture when compared to the presets, when viewed side by side.
His colour corrections were too extreme - I think because he was calibrating it too early. For me, the defaults are fine.
So all I did was focus on the white and higher ire and used some reference images on my s7 phone (renowned for very accurate rec 709). By turning red gain down from 15 to 3 and blue gain from 11 to 7 it fell in line with the reference. Running 5% ire slides from 0 to 100%, the grey was consistent all the way.
My test for greyscale is to watch some black and white movies. It's easy to see when the greyscale deviates because you can see when colours and tinges appear. You may have a scene where it's dark and there's a bit green here and there, then a light is in the background, and it's shining pink or purplish.
 
So I've put your recommendation in under the cinema preset and the pictures great. Still lots of pop and great colours . I always use War for the Planet of the Apes as my reference disc simply because of the diversity of colours and shades. Deep deep blacks in the caves with bursts of great HDR. Then warmy sunset colours followed by the snow scenes. And this is where the Cinema set you described shone.

Flicking between my Dynamic mode settings and Cinema revealed very little differences in the darker scenes. The sunset scenes equally very much the same. But the snow. You don't there is a blue tint until you compare it to the cinema settings. Huge difference and shows how off the white balance is on this tv. So big thanks here. If you could amend white balance on dynamic mode I'm convinced you would get an identical looking picture.

I have to use Warm1 as my colour temp. Warm2 is too warm and orangy and I'm not a fan of the cinema tint that's recomended. Normal is okay for some settings but as mentioned above each panel is different.

But again, big thanks .I think I've finally got the image I want .
Great :0)
The main problem with the greyscale is around the very dark end - at 5% the grey on mine is blue - and this is something inherent in the panel, I think. So it needs a huge correction to even it out.
Dynamic mode looks great on my set too as long as there are no dark and shadowy scenes. That blue miscolours reds into purples and magenta, and neutral shadows are blue.
But I've seen numerous pics of tvs showing this same blue at the low end. Even post calibrated ones. It's like there's an elephant in the room that nobody is talking about.
Look at Steve Withers' video for example for his settings. There's a scene of a cliff overlooking the sea at around 19 seconds. The shadow side of that is ultra marine blue. I can guarantee that cliff is not that colour in real life. I've seen loads of that same blue in loads of pics of led tvs even with comments about how good the picture is. Yet I've barely seen anyone mention the clearly bonkers level of blue.
 
Anyone else finding that the PLEX app ill not login on the tv?
All other devices are working and PLEX has been working fine on tv until now - just a string of different errors trying to connect. Network is fine.
Have uninstalled and re-installed - but no difference.
 
Anyone else finding that the PLEX app ill not login on the tv?
All other devices are working and PLEX has been working fine on tv until now - just a string of different errors trying to connect. Network is fine.
Have uninstalled and re-installed - but no difference.
I'll check it. Not using tv's PLEX it bad implementation sound-wise.
 
Thanks - it is some video streams I'm trying to get to - but I just can get Plex to load with lots of problems. Never get to the point I can even select the streams.

Have removed and reinstalled.
 
Here's something you might like to try.
I found the 2020 remaster for HDR causes some colour shifting in blues/teal etc. But a fellow has calibrated his 2020 remaster on the ez952 OLED. As it's the same chip, I thought I'd try it. Of curse, being OLED and not our panel, the rest of the calibrations don't work.
Here are the settings:
Colour Management System

R-Hue -9, R-Saturation 15, R-Luminance 17

G-Hue 14, G-Saturation 50, G-Luminance 12

B-Hue -9, B Saturation 6, B-Luminance -2

C-Hue -3, C-Saturation -7, C-Luminance 6

M-Hue 7, M-Saturation 4, M-Luminance 1

Y-Hue 4, Y-Saturation -4, Y-Luminance 1

His full calibration can be found here: Panasonic EZ952 4K OLED TV owners and discussion thread
 
So I've had this TV for awhile now and never really settled with the settings but anyhow, I'm having an issue with the settings for UHD HDR between the TV and a UB300.

When pressing the playback info button on the ub300 while playing a 4k disc, it tells me it's a 10bit source, HDR, 4:4:4 and all sounds like it should. But for the HDMI it says 8bit, 709, 4:4:2 (I think) and SDR. Now I'm not a massive geek sadly so the 4:4:4 stuff is kinda lost on me but I don't understand why it still says SDR or 709 as I've managed to get the settings on the TV so they're at 2020 Also when I press the HDR button on the UB300 it tells me it'll only bring that option up when playing a HDR disc. Which I have been doing.

I've fiddled with all kinds of settings, the TV says Dynamic (HDR) as it should while a HDR source is in. I've even bypassed the amp totally just to eliminate any problems there while I try and at least get the picture right between the ub300 and the TV. Any ideas?
 
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So I've had this TV for awhile now and never really settled with the settings but anyhow, I'm having an issue with the settings for UHD HDR between the TV and a UB300.

When pressing the playback info button on the ub300 while playing a 4k disc, it tells me it's a 10bit source, HDR, 4:4:4 and all sounds like it should. But for the HDMI it says 8bit, 709, 4:4:2 (I think) and SDR. Now I'm not a massive geek sadly so the 4:4:4 stuff is kinda lost on me but I don't understand why it still says SDR or 709 as I've managed to get the settings on the TV so they're at 2020 Also when I press the HDR button on the UB300 it tells me it'll only bring that option up when playing a HDR disc. Which I have been doing.

I've fiddled with all kinds of settings, the TV says Dynamic (HDR) as it should while a HDR source is in. I've even bypassed the amp totally just to eliminate any problems there while I try and at least get the picture right between the ub300 and the TV. Any ideas?
When you set up the player were you going through the amp? And does the amp support 4k? If not, the player would downscale the signal to an sdr signal. It will have created the profile in setup, so it needs to be changed through the player's setup.
Your cable should be hdmi 4k compatible also: HDMI 2 spec.
HDR is only possible through hdmi 1 or 2 inputs on the tv.
If you run your player directly into HDMI 1 and run the setup again, it should handshake with the tv and give you HDR.
On the tv ensure hdmi auto setting is on mode 2 and hdmi setting is set to on, on your hdmi input.
Run the easy setup from the player then check your settings are set for hdr playback. It should automatically give you the settings compatible with your tv.
 
When you set up the player were you going through the amp? And does the amp support 4k? If not, the player would downscale the signal to an sdr signal. It will have created the profile in setup, so it needs to be changed through the player's setup.
Your cable should be hdmi 4k compatible also: HDMI 2 spec.
HDR is only possible through hdmi 1 or 2 inputs on the tv.
If you run your player directly into HDMI 1 and run the setup again, it should handshake with the tv and give you HDR.
On the tv ensure hdmi auto setting is on mode 2 and hdmi setting is set to on, on your hdmi input.
Run the easy setup from the player then check your settings are set for hdr playback. It should automatically give you the settings compatible with your tv.

Thanks for the response.

Originally I set it up through the amp. Amp is Denon 2200 which is 4k compatible.

Just ran the setup again with it directly into HDMI 1 and double checked against all the settings you've mentioned: Mode 2, HDMI Auto etc. The only thing I can think of is a dodgy cable. It's HDMI 2.0 but only a cheap one so maybe there's an issue there? At my wits end really. Still getting the "SDR/BT.709" as pictured. Image is decent enough, I know the calibration is all off now but I've tinkered with it so much trying to just get the HDR working
 

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Only thing is to make sure the Denon has HDR passthrough on in the settings. I have a 2400 and when I plugged in my Xbox one S, HDR mode was not activated on the amp. It had to be turned on in the settings .

Also check to make sure the HDMI input on the Denon is 4k compliant. Some may not be.
 
Only thing is to make sure the Denon has HDR passthrough on in the settings. I have a 2400 and when I plugged in my Xbox one S, HDR mode was not activated on the amp. It had to be turned on in the settings .

Also check to make sure the HDMI input on the Denon is 4k compliant. Some may not be.

Thanks. I've cut the amp out of the setup at the minute but I'll probably need that tomorrow when I add it back to the mix.

Long story short, I've resolved the issue. I went to the player settings and switched it mostly to auto. Just a matter of trawling through all the picture settings on the TV again now and getting the sound sorted through the amp. Thanks guys

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Hi all

Just wondering if anyone knows where I can get a spare screw from for the ex750 stand due to the currys technician rounding the screw :mad::mad: Currys do not have any and panasonic do not send them out either which sounds bizarre. It is a black screw that attaches the stands backplate to the TV. It has 2 little washers on and there is 4 in total. I am losing the world to live.

Thanks in advance

Had a similar issues when I first got the TV ended up contacting Panasonic specialists in Doncaster Martin Dawes! Did end up paying for it however! Good luck.
 
Hi all

Just wondering if anyone knows where I can get a spare screw from for the ex750 stand due to the currys technician rounding the screw :mad::mad: Currys do not have any and panasonic do not send them out either which sounds bizarre. It is a black screw that attaches the stands backplate to the TV. It has 2 little washers on and there is 4 in total. I am losing the world to live.

Thanks in advance

When I was assembling the stand I rounded a screw so I couldn't remove the bar to change the height. After a couple of days arguing with Currys they sent me out the stand minus the legs. Not sure if any of these screws will help you though but you're welcome to them if you want.

Sorry, re-read and you're after a black one. Only 2 of them are small black ones, the rest are silver.

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Anyone else think the 3D is average on this set? Never really pops out. I think the image quality is decent.
 
@Cowan86
To me the active 3D on EX750/780 is very good with 1080p files. The depth and "pop-out" effects depend on the source. Try a demo video by LG and it's really stunning. You have to look on internet which movies have pop-out scenes. there is a thread (google it!) with this issue. Sometimes average or bad movies have awesome effects and vice-versa.
 
Maybe a stupid question... I have a 2017 65EX780 with "my home screen 2.0" on it.
Can I somehow upgrade to MHS 3.0 available on 2018 series?
Do I loose the warranty? I saw on youtube how works MHS 3.0 and seems better than previous.
 
Any news on the HDR 10 update? Watched a youtube video about 6 weeks and they said its still coming. Will the picture quality improve a lot with HDR 10?

Also what coulour gamut do people use? Colours really pop on rec 2020 but still prefer native.
 
My HDMI CEC/ARC stuff seems to have gone missing all of a sudden. I'm no longer getting the "Home Cinema" option in the TV sound menu and the CEC control of my kodi box is no longer working. The HDMI cables are all well seated.

The last time this happened I had to factory reset the TV to get it working again. I don't really want to continue doing that though, as I'll lose all my settings.

Will I miss anything (from the Netflix / Amazon apps) if I use an optical cable between TV and Amp, rather than ARC?
 
Been a while since I've posted on this topic, generally content with the TV these past few months. Just wondering if anyone else has been having a similar issue to me with the Netflix app and Dolby Digital. Recently got everything running through a receiver, Xbox & Ps4 send DD over HDMI and the TV passes it through via optical to the receiver, and everything works ok on that side of things. The Netflix app will default to DD, but the audio seems to playback slowly and switching to the standard stereo signal fixes it - at the expense of surround sound. Seems to only do it on the Netflix app.
 
My HDMI CEC/ARC stuff seems to have gone missing all of a sudden. I'm no longer getting the "Home Cinema" option in the TV sound menu and the CEC control of my kodi box is no longer working. The HDMI cables are all well seated.

The last time this happened I had to factory reset the TV to get it working again. I don't really want to continue doing that though, as I'll lose all my settings.

Will I miss anything (from the Netflix / Amazon apps) if I use an optical cable between TV and Amp, rather than ARC?

same situation here. in my case it´s the connection to a panasonic soundbar. all worked perfectly fine months ago - now it´s gone, no idea WHY as absolutely nothing has changed since. only exception => the new software-update. maybe that´s the reason. didn´t do a factory reset after installing the new software (3.200) because of my settings... any ideas? anybody else in the same boat?
 

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