Thank you for a reply.

claude whitney

1. On the TV itself, hold down the “Vol -” button (on the right hand side of TV)
2. While holding the volume button down, press “0” on the TV remote three times. Wait. The service menu will load.
3. Now press the “2″ button on the remote. This will pull up a window with the word “SRV-TOOL”.
4. Press the “OK” button on the remote. A light blue grid will appear.
5. On the Grid, move the cursor down (using the remote down arrows) to the row labeled “PTCT”
6. Move cursor to the right. It should be an empty box on the grid.
7. Hold MUTE for 3 seconds. The amount of time the display has been on will be next to the word “TIME” this is in hours and minutes.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10462105-1.html?tag=mncol

Btw, the link you posted regd the THX fix is wrong. It DID NOT fix it and it was the same version pushed out via Vieracast. There was a 2nd version of 1.28 released privately to some customers via SD card, others via a new a-board and still others who pulled that THX zip file from the techtraining site of Panny before they pulled it. THAT link fixed the THX issue in large part.

Are you going to do this for the benefit of people who seem to be ignorant of the existence and value of AVSFORUM ? I hope you will, because it would otherwise be a disservice to consumers who are trusting of your reviews.

We responded days ago to a comment regarding the issue in the comments section of the 2010 Panasonic post. Here’s the link.

HD Guru

After writing many diatribes on Gucci HDMI cables and the absolute need for extended warranties, he further ruined his credibility by touting Voodoo tweaks like Teflon tape on power cords to reduce heat (use enough tape and the set will generate no heat at all!).

The only way to quantify performance differences between video cables is to MEASURE. Subjective observations are notoriously prone to bias, as in, “These cables cost $400, so they BETTER be good!” If any difference in cable performance is immediately obvious by eyeball, like his “video noise” claim, then you sure don’t need a Kuro to see it. And the mere assertion that silver co-ax cables improve performance is complete lunacy: It’s RF, fer Pete’s sake!

Does PIONEERGUY coat his CDs with a blue Sharpie to reduce high-frequency shrillness? Or did he eschew CDs altogether because LPs sound more “natural?” Does he use only vacuum tube amplifiers to avoid “transistor sound?”

I suspect, as have other contributors, that PIONEERGUY is easily swayed by lunatic fringe pseudo-science and black magic. I suspect even more strongly that he is actually Wally Wegrzyn, just tryin’ to make a living selling grossly overpriced cables.