r/PlasmaTV

Got interested in plasmas only like a week ago and just so happened to come across this low hour holy grail right as it was listed on Facebook marketplace, bought it for $230 even. It was used by an old couple for 30 minutes a day while they road their treadmills in the basement for its whole life.

This is my first time ever owning a plasma tv and oh my god it’s mind blowing! The motion clarity and the colors/blacks are amazing and blow my 2025 QLED and any other flat panel I’ve ever seen out of the water!

It came with all the original accessories, it also was listed as a 60” but turned out being a 65” which is nice, the movie is Kung Fu Panda 3.

The 20% VLT was great, but when I tried 5% VLT..man.. this is it! performs really well with lights around, more contrast and depth to the colors and picture. Contrast and Ratio is set to default 0, I can pump it up more if I want more pop.

This Pioneer PRO from 2002 black levels is just mediocre, with the 5% VLT tint, maybe it has around Panasonic ZT16 black levels 😆 I kid. I may apply the same tint to my UT50 and maybe it will look like 80% VT50 😬

Sorry, I lied with the " went all in" because there is also 2.5% VLT but I think that will be for another experiment and call it "blind as bat tint post".

Shout out to 🐻Suitable Garlic for pushing for more tint LOL

So my zt60 has some red spots on it that are hot to the touch, very visible on a white screen. It also appears to have pink specks across the panel in a large stripe along the bottom middle and top... I'm not really sure what I should do :( I think adding USB fans could help but is there any fix for the pink or is my panel unfortunately cooked 😓 (this is not my photo I was having a hard time capturing a picture of it but mine looks pretty much identical)

👉 Sample Video.

🌀u/Dreamroom64 inspired of course.

Thermal Image of ZT60 (shared by @RW, discord). Those are with OEM active cooling fans. It was never enough folks.

In my case for my fanless from factory 60" GT50, I have two exhaust and one intake with dust shield. The more the better.

u/RemStudio style would be peak cooling 😁 Do that for maximum heat removal.

Hello there. I wanted a plasma for my PS4 /PS5 consoles, and found this LG 60PV250 in really good state. I researched about plasma for some time before buying it, and discovered that plasma tvs were quite hot and saw some fan mods. So I decided to mod mine and installed these 8 80mm exhaust fans to extract heat better, plus one 120m intake fan where it could fit. Does it look overkill for knowledgeable people here ?

Kind regards

Fujitsu still hosts the full 1995 press release on their website:

https://info.archives.global.fujitsu/jp/news/1995/Aug/24-e.html

They claimed:
"The new device features a 42-inch-diagonal screen (920mm wide by 518mm high) that is just 75mm thick -- a feat impossible with CRTs. In addition to full-color display of 16.7 million colors, it boasts 300 candela/m2 white peak brightness and a contrast ratio of 70:1, for a display quality on par with even the best CRTs and far superior to rear projection type displays."

Got this for the equivalent of ~$20 yesterday, as “for parts”.

A Panasonic TC-P42XT50X. The only 720p-class 3D set Panasonic ever made.

My intention is to get it running.

its still so good, but after 2 months of use i realised that previous owner left few burn-ins, tbf didn’t see them for 2 months of everyday use so doesn’t really bother me

still recommend plasmas to everyone i know, 10/10 experience

Hy, i have rencently buy myself a 75€ plasma tv, it a panasonic th-50pz81e, it have a better image than evry thing that i have ever seen, but there is a silgth issue there looks like somthong is wrong with a kind of coating of the screen.

What can i do do resolve the issue.

panasonic S60 🖤

loved how this looked but i also wanted to test the motion, the video wasn't paused for any of these photos

I just bought this one, thanks again at everyone who helped me here.

I actually got beat by someone else to the original one that I wanted, but I guess it's fine as this second one I found here appears to be in excellent condition.

From what I saw with the base colors black and white it has zero perceptible burn in, appears almost to good to be true.

I suspect the panel will have switched to the highest level of the raised blacklevel given the thick layer of dust on the fans, yet as expected it stomps the slightly newer LCD it has now replaced anyway by a massive amount. A cave is actually dark inside, shadows really pop in, brown hair in a shadow looks way more realistic as well.

And then there there is of course the motion clarity, how effortlessly traceable things are on this even if they violently bounce around. Though I'm not yet certain whether it runs the frame interpolation or not at this point.

Though unfortunately it has several dead buttons on the remote, which includes the power botton as well as volume control which is stuck at at level 28. This means I can't yet use it with the audio system yet. The mute button still works but the continuous display of the mute sign is of course a big No No.

But all in all the errors appearing outside of the panel condition and control mechanisms is probably the best one could hope for with a used buy and I guess these errors should be fixable.

The Audio system consists of a Denon AVR-1312 with speakers that I took from a Pioneer Hi-fi set of the early 90's. The receiver is located deep within the left side of the TV table, alongside it being in a dimmed state and enclosed with the tinted glass, it is imperceptible enough to not be noticed when on while still being accessible via the remote.

The Sub is no longer in use as it would cause all the doors in the furniture to vibrate😁

Just scored this set for 40$. It looked to be in great shape and I couldn’t resist. I mainly use it for my modded Wii and Original Xbox.

Native 480p running component. (852x480)

3000:1 contrast ratio

It’s stunning!

I have a replacement remote on the way. Does anyone know how to get to the service menu to check hours?

Thanks!

I was under this belief that it was impossible, and "amazed" at the same time how the main plasma panel did not get damaged in the removal process, considering, when reading marketing materials, it sounded like it was "baked and bonded" to achieve a zero gap to eliminate reflection.

🛒Facebook Listing Source. Owner of this ZT60, I know your in discord. This could make for a good pseudo tinted glass and restore some blacks.

I would slap like, a thin optically clear plexiglass, cut to size and apply some tint u/Dreamroom64 👉 style 😎 as a project. Dont have to be bonded, just have some form of back to back tape to keep it in place. Heat will dissipate no matter what. Earlier plasmas even have separate glass and space between the actual panel. Maybe instead of panel and tinted plexiglass in direct contact, add some gap for heat convection and escape to occur, there will be some kind of space (dont fully use back to back tape on the bezel, maybe some tiny gaps in between for hot air to leave vent out)

Can go much darker tint since ZT60 panels are driven much harder and are brighter compared to lower tiers. I bet the ZT60 is the brightest plasma with those aggressive filters stripped! I read somewhere it uses more wattage to drive the panel even in comparison with a VT60.