Insignia ns-pdp42 manual

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Don't have an account? Sign up! Restore password. Upload manual. Upload from disk. Moving on, for comparison testing we first reduced the light output of the NS-PSP42 to a respectable 40 footlamberts , our target for viewing in a dark room, and calibrated the other settings as well as we could.

We also tried tweaking the user-menu color temperature controls to get the grayscale closer to the 6,K standard, but we couldn't improve on the measurements we got in the default "Warm," preset, so we left it there.

For our complete dark-room picture settings, click here or scroll down to the Tips section. After setup, we sat down to compare the Insignia with a few other HDTVs we had on-hand--all more expensive than this model, but still worthy of comparison just to see how the entry-level NS-PDP42 stacked up. We didn't expect the inexpensive Insignia to produce a very deep shade of black--and compared with the other sets it didn't--but then again, its blacks were better than those of a lot of low-buck plasmas we've tested, such as the Vizio VP50 and the Hitachi P50H On the night when RoboCop first takes his Taurus LX on patrol, for example, the shadows of the buildings and the spaces inside his car appeared lighter than they did on the other sets, with the exception of the Olevia LCD, which was about equal to the Insignia.

Details in shadows were also less-apparent on the Insignia, which tended to get too bright too quickly--a sign of improper gamma. Then again, for the price, black level performance was certainly acceptable. We can say the same about the other crucial area of HDTV performance: color. Helped by the NS-PDP42's relatively accurate grayscale in the Warm preset, skin tones, such as the close-up on Peter Weller's chin and mouth beneath the mask, looked realistic and not tinged by the bluish cast that plagued the Olevia, for example.

Our main compromise was having to desaturate the image a bit to make up for the red push in the set's color decoding, which along with the slightly lighter blacks deprived the image of some impact. Primary color accuracy was a bigger weakness of the Insignia, especially in green areas, although it wasn't as bad as that of some plasmas we've reviewed. When Robocop pulls up to his old house on Primrose Lane, the trees and grass of the neighborhood looked a bit bluer than on the Sony, but the difference wasn't drastic.

We did, however, notice more noise on the Insignia than with other sets in the room. As the camera pans over the white model of future Detroit in the boardroom, for example, we saw more motes of snowy noise on the NS-PDP42, even when we engaged the "DB noise" function--which didn't seem to have much effect at all--and left the other sets' NR turned off.

On the other hand the NS-PDP42 wasn't as prone to false contouring as many plasmas we've reviewed, especially for a budget set. As a 1,x HDTV, we expected the Insignia to resolve more detail than it did when fed i sources. It truncated more i resolution than other x plasmas according to test patterns, although the p patterns looked a lot sharper. As a result, we recommend going p when possible, especially since the Insignia didn't properly deinterlace i sources, whether from video- or film-based sources.

The set cannot accept p sources, which isn't a big surprise for something in this price range. To learn more, see the products' user manual or contact us. There is no requirement to register your product with Insignia. For your convenience, if you purchased your product from Best Buy in the United States with a credit card, check or provided a Best Buy Reward Zone membership number, then we have a record of your purchase and nothing additional is required.

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