G500
Auditioning
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- Apr 2, 2008
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- Joe
Hi guys,
I'm new to this forum. I found this place during a Google search. I was (am) looking for advice for tweaking my Hitachi 51G500.
The beginning of the end came a few weeks ago when a friend was tackled into the TV. The screen was totalled and I have a new assembly on order. Subsequent to this blunt force trauma the set seemed to have a pretty lousey picture. (I've reinstalled the old screen for now until I cab install the new one, so originally I thought it might be the lack of the glass layer (plexiglass?) that might be causing the ruddy picture, but upon further inspection I've discovered the green gun is at half it's normal intensity. Not sure what to do about that?? There is also a vertically mounted (small) circuit board behind the screen , and under the mirror that was loosened; related to poor picture?
Before I spotted the green gun problem, I tweaked the crap out of a 'lot' of settings. I wrote down 80% of the original numbers for reference sake I thought, only to discover that after a factory reset much of these settings/numbers do 'not' return to a default. Opps. Thats really going to hurt, if I discover here that those numbers are not a known set of defaults. IOW's if every 51G500 0ff the line comes with a different set of settings, I may be a tad screwed.
I am watching an AVIA II set on EBay and am hoping most of this might be tweaked back towards normalcy with that. If not I'll see if one of the warranty places in town can come over and calibrate it once the new screen is in. When I called they mentioned having an electronic device for calibrating and didn't rely on a DVD. Not sure what they were referring to?
So right now I have these questions:
1) Is there anything I can do to reanimate this nearly dead green gun?
2) Are the settings in the ISF a standard set per model?
3) Should I follow through with the AVIA II or get the DVE Pro set?
*shaking head* .... *insert self deprication here*
TIA,
Joe
I'm new to this forum. I found this place during a Google search. I was (am) looking for advice for tweaking my Hitachi 51G500.
The beginning of the end came a few weeks ago when a friend was tackled into the TV. The screen was totalled and I have a new assembly on order. Subsequent to this blunt force trauma the set seemed to have a pretty lousey picture. (I've reinstalled the old screen for now until I cab install the new one, so originally I thought it might be the lack of the glass layer (plexiglass?) that might be causing the ruddy picture, but upon further inspection I've discovered the green gun is at half it's normal intensity. Not sure what to do about that?? There is also a vertically mounted (small) circuit board behind the screen , and under the mirror that was loosened; related to poor picture?
Before I spotted the green gun problem, I tweaked the crap out of a 'lot' of settings. I wrote down 80% of the original numbers for reference sake I thought, only to discover that after a factory reset much of these settings/numbers do 'not' return to a default. Opps. Thats really going to hurt, if I discover here that those numbers are not a known set of defaults. IOW's if every 51G500 0ff the line comes with a different set of settings, I may be a tad screwed.
I am watching an AVIA II set on EBay and am hoping most of this might be tweaked back towards normalcy with that. If not I'll see if one of the warranty places in town can come over and calibrate it once the new screen is in. When I called they mentioned having an electronic device for calibrating and didn't rely on a DVD. Not sure what they were referring to?
So right now I have these questions:
1) Is there anything I can do to reanimate this nearly dead green gun?
2) Are the settings in the ISF a standard set per model?
3) Should I follow through with the AVIA II or get the DVE Pro set?
*shaking head* .... *insert self deprication here*
TIA,
Joe