[lmyllari]

The recommendation above seems to have been the "jackpot" combination.. the only oddity I observed is that I seemed to get WTW in the test patterns but not BTB... PQ during playback (of at least H264) however looks great and I finally think I'm where I need to be with this.

Did you try adjusting your TV brightness? You should now be getting BtB and WtW, so one step up on brightness should make the 16 bar light up just barely (which would mean that your brightness control was exactly where it needs to be - 16 is supposed to be black).

A lot of calibrators leave some headroom at the top, so if your TV can reach the target brightness at signal level 235 it can continue getting brighter up until where it runs out of power.

The only thing to fret about now is that possibly during VC1 playback things will be a bit off since we are forced to use software decode for that currently.

Don't fret about it. If you have enough CPU power to decode it, the results should look identical. Both h264 and vc1 are specified so that every decoder should produce bit exact output.

Thanks again a million times over. I think that we need a "Panasonic Plasma" patch that corrects all of this stuff for NUC users who have a Panny TV!

No problem. I think we just need a guide which explains pretty much the last page.

Also, the default settings (gpu auto range, xbmc full range) are already pretty universal and should work in your setup too even if the result is not optimal (some banding, BtB and WtW clipping).