Plasma Storage & Transport

[My_Two_Cents]

Good to here you took the PROPER advice and transported the set standing up. There is a reason all credible HT and display sites and the manufacturers themselves advise against transporting a plasma other than upright as it is meant to be (and none of it is hearsay ). Regardless of what someone MAY have had success doing, unless that person is willing to financially guarantee your set during transport, you would be wise to follow the overwhelmingly accepted method of plasma transport.

Now, keep your brightness and contrast lowered for the first ~100 hours, or so. To speed-up the break-in, you may want to consider downloading the break-in images and running them as a continuous loop slide show for the first 100 hours. Sure, some may say it's really not necessary, but it doesn't hurt anything to do so and it may give you a better piece of mind. Once your set has a couple hundred hours on it, then you can adjust the settings using a calibration disc, as you mentioned.

Enjoy!