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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 40.6 inches | | Product Width: | 12.1 inches | | Product Height: | 27.8 inches | | Product Weight: | 54.1 pounds | | Package Length: | 45.4 inches | | Package Width: | 30.5 inches | | Package Height: | 11.3 inches | | Package Weight: | 62.9 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 7 reviews |
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| | Features | 600HZ Sub-field DriveVIERA Image ViewerClean touch bezelRated Power Consumption 298 W
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 Fan F _ _king tastic Aug 30, 2010
This is my second Panasonic plasma. The Picture is great and it runs a lot cooler than my older one.I would buy more if I had noting else to do with my $$$.$$
btw I also bought the BD-85 Blu-Ray, It is a perfect match
Great buy! Aug 27, 2010
It took me about 3 days to get this set hooked up to my surround sound system. It was so simple compared to my last set, that I ended up with a handful of cables left over. The person who said it takes tweaking was right. I also think the 2nd review person expected too much too soon.
I personally use the "Cinema" mode (one out of many) to get a great picture. The unit actually does all the work for you without a lot of complicated wiring through the input and menu selections. I highly recommend this set for it's excellent picture and wide versatility. Also, you just can't beat Panasonic for quality at a great price.
Excellent Quality Aug 01, 2010
This TV provides excellent picture quality and is the perfect size for a family room. The TV arrived within one week and looks great! The price is the best I've seen from any other electronics retailer.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Love it Jul 07, 2010
This is my first HDTV purchase and I'm very happy with it. A friend suggested I go with Panasonic as I'd get the most bang for my buck, and she was right.
The stand was easy enough to assemble and the set looks and feels well-constructed and appropriate for any room decor. The menus are user-friendly and initial setup was a breeze; an explanation is shown for every available option, so people who aren't familiar with funny acronyms don't need to look through the user manual.
The video quality is outstanding. I tested it first with my PS3 (my main reason for buying a tv) and the colors really pop out at you. I was worried that the plasma would be too dark, but it handles both bright and dark colors exceptionally well. Nothing looks washed out or too black. The only complaint is that the screen brightness can be overpowering with the Game and Vivid settings (I'm more a fan of the latter, but it depends on the game), but the brightness can be adjusted and the adaptive lighting seems to work well enough. I would have liked an overall gamma setting, but you can tweak the video to be nearly perfect with the tv options and the video source's settings. Also, the anti-glare works well enough that I can keep one set of curtains open while viewing and the picture doesn't suffer.
Next, I connected my laptop through its HDMI output (most customers probably don't have this but I'll mention it anyway). 1680x1050 resolution seems to work the best as 1920 left the desktop looking too small and making it easier to notice the pixels, and anything smaller doesn't fit just perfectly. I think these are issues with my laptop giving the tv strange resolutions that it's not used to, but these aren't enough to detract from the quality of the tv. I tested a few games at 1280x960 and they looked better than they do on my laptop's screen (anything less than 1680 on my computer is fuzzy). As mentioned before, small portions were cut off of the left and right sides but it was only enough to notice while on menus. I'll definitely be using this tv as a monitor for schoolwork. Movie quality is great with compressed video files, so I'm sure the blu ray will be amazing.
The speakers are sub-par, but they're not terrible. I was still able to enjoy the games without the extra oomph of a solid set with a woofer, but my next priority will be audio.
I'm satisfied with the connections in the back of the tv. I'm only using it for HDMI and occasionally the RCA at the moment, but the optical audio out is convenient if go that route for speakers (I'm not sure if this is standard now but I like it).
Overall, I'm very happy with the tv and would buy it again. The price you pay is well worth the quality you get out of it. Aside from a few minor issues and poor speakers, it's a great HDTV.
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 Ok for the price Jun 13, 2010
Not a bad picture, but be prepared to tweak it until you're happy. The other reviewer is correct about the brightness. I saw this in the shop, and they had it pegged to almost max. Understandable with the flo lights they have in the store. Reviewer number two is missing the point on his purchase. You don't buy an HD based on it's audio quality, and you don't buy it for S-Video. This is like saying your surround receiver doesn't have good audio in mono.
is this a top notch set. Nope, but considering what I paid compared to what I could have paid a year ago, I'm quite happy with this as my first HD set.
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