Television

What Hooked Us: This plasma flat-panel television from Panasonic delivers full contrast with a natural and true-to-life picture. The finest of HDTV details are displayed on the set’s 1920 x 1080 pixel display. Its built-in SD card reader enables photos to be precisely displayed on the TV in full resolution. Why We Grumbled:   Although the Panasonic accepts 24 Hz ...

What Hooked Us: The LCD display is at the forefront of its class with its broad viewing angle. All the main features are catered for. Easy day-to-day operation. Why We Grumbled: The Panasonic colors are not spot-on. There is some judder with 24p-format material. The Final Verdict: This Panasonic LCD really adds up to something when you consider its strong ...

What Hooked Us: To its advantage, the HDTV component is available at the full 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution. The perfect cinematic rendering of 24p signals is accomplished excellently. By comparison to other state-of-the-art televisions, when viewing the screen obliquely there is practically no visible reduction in contrast and the colors remain neutral. Why We Grumbled: The default factory color ...

What Hooked Us: The Panasonic gives sharp images at full HD resolution. Deep black and neutral colors make for a great picture. Even 24p format is beautifully presented. Why We Grumbled: Standard PAL (576i) via HDMI is blurry and flickers a little. Fine details are missing from TV pictures. The sound is a bit feeble – Panasonic can do better. ...

What Hooked Us: Accurate portrayal of 24p Blu-ray material. Differentiation of dark picture regions is comparable even to top CRT sets. Respectable sound for a flat-panel TV. DVDs and TV pictures in the conventional PAL standard look natural. Effective contrast, at 4,600:1, is significantly better than that of LCD models. HD-capable, integrated SD card reader that can also play back ...

What Hooked Us: Error-free 24p playback. Impressive motion clarity in 50 Hz mode. Movie-like picture. Very high peak contrast. Why We Grumbled: Blurry 576i picture via HDMI. Not well-suited to daylight viewing. Standard playback of DVD movies evokes occasional line flicker. High power consumption. The Final Verdict: Typical of plasma flat-panel TVs, Panasonic’s TH-50 PZ 80 E shows its strengths ...

Introduction This 50-inch (1.27-meter) TV belongs to Panasonic’s equivalent of the Volkswagen “Golf class” – that is, the lower mid range. If you know about cars, you’ll know what this means: This class provides the best price-for-performance ratio. For TVs of this size, the Japanese manufacturer uses plasma technology, and the TX-P 50 G 10 (also see Panasonic’s G10 Series) ...

Introduction It all started with this screen size. When Panasonic and its competitors introduced their first plasmas at the beginning of the flat-panel era, the screen diagonal was 42 inches (1.06 meters) across the board. For a long time, manufacturers were happy simply to be able to produce a working panel of this size. But, times change: In comparison to ...

Introduction A TV, pure and simple – this 46-inch (1.17-meter) TV is from the lower mid-range of Panasonic models. In this series, the manufacturer concentrates on the main virtues of a TV – buyers will have to make do without top multimedia features. This can be a positive thing: Many customers only want to use their TVs to watch TV ...

Introduction Rock legend Bruce Springsteen knew it already: “57 Channels (And Nothin’ On)”. The song is showing its age – the number of TV channels has gone up a bit since then – but the title definitely still rings true. Panasonic’s G 15 series, however, means this no longer poses a problem. Thanks to a network connection and Internet-access, this ...