Panasonic TH-42BT300W Operating Instructions Manual page 30

Picture Adjustments
● Picture Mode
You can switch to the optimal picture mode for the video
source and viewing environment.
Normal:
For viewing in standard (evening lighting) environments.
This menu selects the normal levels of Brightness and
Contrast.
Dynamic:
For viewing in brighter environments.
This menu selects higher than normal levels of
Brightness and Contrast.
Notes:
• When "Monitor" is selected in Picture Mode, the following menu items cannot be set.
Picture menu: Contrast
Extended life settings: Peak limit (see page 54)
Setup menu: Power save (see page 42)
• If you would like to change the picture and colour of the selected Picture menu to something else, adjust using
the items in the Picture menu. (see below)
● Contrast Adjusts the proper picture contrast.
● Brightness Adjusts for easier viewing of dark pictures
such as night scenes and black hair.
● Colour Adjusts colour saturation.
● Hue Adjusts for nice skin colour.
● Sharpness Adjusts picture sharpness.
● White balance Switches to various screen color tones.
Normal: Intermediate color temperature (9300K).
Warm: Colors with a reddish tinge (6500K).
Warm2: Colors with a reddish tinge (6100K).
Warm3: Colors with a reddish tinge (5600K).
Studio: Optimal color temperature for studio viewing (3200K).
Cool: Colors with a bluish tinge (11500K).
Notes:
• You can change the level of each function (Contrast, Brightness, Colour, Hue, Sharpness) for each Picture
Mode.
• The setting details for Normal, Dynamic, Cinema and Monitor respectively are memorized separately for each
input terminal.
• In Contrast, there is not a noticeable change even when contrast is increased with a bright picture or reduced
with a dark picture.
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Normal
Monitor
Cinema:
For use in viewing tone-focused pictures with brightness
reduced.
Monitor:
For use when creating broadcast or movie content.
With this picture, even if the overall average picture
level (APL) changes, the brightness of areas with the
same signal level does not change.
Less
Darker
Less
Reddish
Less
Normal
Cool
* "Studio" can be modified when
"Studio mode" in the Options menu
is "On". (see page 59)
Dynamic
Cinema
More
Brighter
More
Greenish
More
Warm Warm2
Studio* Warm3