Did I buy a defective TV?

[Vigo]

I am hoping to get some advice from the TV experts here, I am sure some of you have 3D tv's and know what is up. I just bought a new Panny 2012 plasma a couple days ago. 3D is becoming a standard feature on these, and the price was the same as getting a non-3d Panasonic. So I took the plunge.

I dl'ed some movies to stream through my PS3. At first, everything seemed awesome to me. it was all in definite 3d. The wife and I decided to watch John Carter on it. By halfway through the movie, our eyeballs were bleeding from how horrible the crosstalk was. We tried other movies, but the only one that seemed passable was Tron, and that showed up very flat looking on the screen. Then I tried playing Call of Duty Black Ops in 3d, it was just unplayable it was so bad. I also tried loading the movie directly up to the tv via SD card, just in case it was the HDMI or PS3. Still looked bad. The 2D-3D conversion function works perfectly though. So I am confused on what the issue is.

Just to point out.
- I have name brand 3D glasses, they both look equally crappy
- The 2D to 3D conversion function works perfectly. Inferior, yet crisp and smooth 3D.
- I tried adjusting the settings. I can tweak it so that only the foreground or the background has horrid crosstalk on the screen, but can't fix both to look good at once.
- I used a 1.4 hdmi, and actually a fancier cable. Not that I think it would be any different from a meritline HDMI.
- I have read a ton of on the internet reviews. They say that this TV has excellent 3D.
- I have also read a lot on crosstalk. They seem to indicate that panasonic one of the best brands for 3D, that LCD's are much worse for crosstalk than plasma, and that most 2012 tv's have solved most crosstalk problems.


Oh, also the composite video doesn't seem to work either. I get a black and white image from my wii (With the upgraded composite cable). I tried hooking up my blu ray to the composite lines in. Being very careful to make sure that they were plugged in correctly. Same thing, No color. It seems like only the Luma works and not the chroma. I tried looking for a setting, thinking it might have been set to component video only instead of composite...I couldn't find a setting for it. The plasma can handle component video just fine.

  Dud TV?

[Samstag]

If you have timing settings to adjust the synchronization of the glasses to the TV, try adjusting those in small increments until you eliminate as much as you can.

Even expensive active glasses are not perfect.  Your TV might not be the problem.

[Vigo]

Yeah, the new Panasonics are all bluetooth for 2012. I can't find anything regarding sync timing settings. I seem to be the only one complaining about the issue, so I think I am just gonna try to exchange tv's for the same model again. I wouldn't normally default to return a tv from amazon because of an issue that I am not sure about really being a defect or not, but the defective component video-in is good enough a reason for me to just exchange on amazon rather than trying to work with Panasonic directly. I was contemplating just going the next model up, but that is $250 more, and this TV should be exactly what I need already.

I don't know why, but they did combined the composite video-in with the same port as the component luma port. I am guessing whatever logic they put into the TV to determine whether a signal is component or not just isn't working. 9 times out of 10, I screw up the cable order and jump to the conclusion that it wasn't my fault. I was in shock that this time I had the cables in the right order. I had to sit and try every cable combination just to make sure.