Last year a bought a small Panasonic Tau TV for the bedroom. In the store, this set stood out as having the best overall picture of the bunch, and was reasonably inexpensive as well, so I took it. After getting home and hooking it up, I realized that the colors we *way* too hot on all channels. I fiddled with it a while (several days actually) and found that the correct color, on a scale of 0-63 (really, the maximum value is 63!), is at a setting of 4. Turning it down one more notch results in virtually no color at all, and up one makes it very hot. Given that correct color is at an extreme, its discouraging to find the controls to be so non linear.
Clearly Panasonic is addressing the store's need to demo their TV's more than they are the customer's need to watch comfortably. The set has worked well in the past year, and I've become used to the odd color, hue, and picture settings I needed to make for it to look good. Still, it irks me a bit to think that this set was not made to provide the best possible viewing experience, but rather to simply stand out on a wall of TV's.
Clearly Panasonic is addressing the store's need to demo their TV's more than they are the customer's need to watch comfortably. The set has worked well in the past year, and I've become used to the odd color, hue, and picture settings I needed to make for it to look good. Still, it irks me a bit to think that this set was not made to provide the best possible viewing experience, but rather to simply stand out on a wall of TV's.