Burn in Issues with Panasonic Viera: What do you do to prevent burn-in when using Pandora?
1434700
Not sure why you would worry about burn-in with Pandora... Once it's playing for a while, the image on the screen starts to move around to prevent that problem.
547341
I also have the KDL-52W4100.It has some clouding. It is not that severe, but I still find it very annoying. I purposely kept the box, and I may return the TV to amazon if Sony can't offer a fix.I spoke to Sony and they told me the reset the TV, which I am going to try, but obviously I don't expect that to change anything.
440890
I have this same issue with an earlier model (BDP-S350). For me the problem began when my blu-ray player automatically updated its firmware last spring. Even blu-ray disks that played fine earlier stopped playing, although many of the new disks that I've tried work fine. Sony appears to be oblivious to this issue not providing any meaningful customer support. There are several possible solutions posted on the SONY website and on various discussion forums for other models (e.g, turn off the Internet access, clear the USB jump drive memory, unplug the unit from the AC power for a minute or two). None of them worked in my case. I finally gave up and bought a new Panasonic player; out of principle I persisted in trying to 'fix' my Sony blu-ray player for quite a while and eventually decided to pay a few buck to buy my way out of the aggravation). Bye, bye Sony products, hello Panasonic (They also burned me years ago for discontinuing support [e.g., driver updates] for one of their expensive Vaio computers.).
2124842
I totally agree about reverting back to the previous stable version. At this point, it would be in Panasonic's best interest to keep us happy and revert back to V1.27 immediately!. I spoke with a rep today. Because the Panasonic BD players are designed to not allow downgrade to a previous (lower numbered) version of the firmware, I suggested their engineering department consider renaming the stable V1.27 to V1.44 and put it on their servers NOW. This would enable our Netflix-crippled machines to revert back to the previous version until they can fully test their new firmware.
584850
I have used the scrolling bar on the tv (Panasonic Viera) but when I turn it on, Pandora stops. How do I keep the sound?
164042
you may need to see if panasonic has a firmware update for the bluray player. sometimes that happens with newer bluray movies. check the panasonic website
922293
We've been experiencing it off and on for about 6 months. Two nights ago, it was really bad...today...its not there. It comes and goes. In our case its a blue stripe. We've seen it whether its coming from the cable box or bluray player. I haven't played with it too much, so I don't have a pattern of what it does and how to defeat it. I'd like a comment from Panasonic. Our TV was 5 years old at Christmas.
563696
I bought 2 one of them already got burned when i turn it on I think because the voltage. is it possible to replace it with different item at panasonic local sotre in Qatar , or I have to return it from the original source i bought ?!
82013
WFR-20 now works with Pandora in the USA. The lastest firmware upgrade allows for use with Pandora. You simply download the firmware upgrade to the radio (very simple) and link your Pandora account to your radio on the www.Reciva.com site. It works great. I'm told this does not work outside of the USA due to rights issues with Pandora (not a radio issue).
2037566
My panasonic phones are doing that too! Driving me crazy. Shopping online right now for replacements!
136305
I have been trying to do that same thing. Some scenes get messed up by the auto-exposure. A couple steps down in the settings you can change how bright or dark the picture is but that pesky auto-exposure is still active. Let's hope if they ever put up another firmware update that they include that functionality like when they added the timer function.
2213890
Not sure but what do u play the app thru? We use pandora through Ipads and cell phones with no issues
671574
Sorry I missed your question earlier, but hopefully you can change your mind about the Panasonic. Viera has awful color and any SD source just looks atrocious. My experience with this SONY is that most SD cable looks sharp and clean, with good motion handling and less noise that you'd expect from the typical LCD. It all depends on how you're viewing your SD cable. Most cable providers send digital, analog, and HDTV network channels thru their line. I have a splitter on my cable line, sending one output to the set's RF input and the other to my cable box and then thru S-video cable. SD cable boxes today are mostly SD-digital. The digital SD stations actually look quite good, far better than you'd expect from an LCD. SD-DVD is even better, and BluRay looks best if your player can downscale to 720p (the SONY's own built-in 1080 downscaler is likely not as competent as the one on your BR player). The HD feeds thru your cable line look outstanding with 1080, 720, nd even 480 signals -- pure analog SD thru that line is tolerable, but not nearly as crisp as the SD-digital versions of those same channels. Thru your cable box, pure analog stations look a bit grim, red, and undersaturated; but digital-SD stations look very clean, almost as nice as SD-DVD. I'd avoid the Panasonic. In fact, this SONY might not be perfect (you'll have to use the RGB controls to tone down the really heavy Red), but it's the best 26" LCD I've seen in a while. Samsung makes a 26" that looks good in reviews, but build quality and reliability are extremely poor, and the Samsung suffers from motion artifacts that look much worse than with the SONY.
270684
Burn is mostly a myth for modern plasma tv's, and really only happens to lower quality models.I have played hundreds of hours of video games on my plasma tv and NEVER had any burn in problems with menus or various status bars or what not.
1976797
We moved from Uniden to Panasonic. I did not experience the problem you are describing, but I am VERY pleased with the Panasonic system.
1452384
Brian, the screens on my two Panasonic Viera TV sets have never burned, but I've really never tried to set them on fire. Tom
1281556
Although there isn't any indication of a thermal device in my literature, I think this could be a heat related problem. Best I can offer is to call Panasonic per Operations Manual number