Search form Search. Thomas J. Norton Oct 6, NEXT: Page 2 ». Log in or register to post comments. Related Latest Reviews News. Discovering YouTube. Beethoven, Regolith, and You. LG Reaches for the Stars with 9. Free Guy. Sonos Beam Gen 2 Soundbar Review. The Green Knight. Anti-Reflective Filter: The TV's flat panel features a new AR anti-reflective screen coating that acts as a filter to reduce annoying reflections and improve picture quality. These transitions can appear as distinct lines between the different shades of color.
Having 4, shades of gradation helps minimize the false contouring artifact so color transitions take on a smooth, natural appearance. Color Compatible: This unit is compatible with the Deep Color and x.
This technology supports higher bit rates and more color possibilities than previous HDTV signals. All incoming signals are converted to this native resolution.
The HDMI digital and component video inputs will accept i, p, p, and i, and will display them as x The HDMI inputs will also accept a p signal. Aspect Modes: Depending on the input signal, you can choose one of the following aspect modes:. Picture Menu: The Menu list allows you to make the following adjustments in picture quality:. You can set the feature to automatic or force, and designate the time interval for the "Force" setting as 1, 2, 3, or 4. You can also change the brightness of the side bars that appear in mode, or start a scrolling white vertical bar across the screen to prevent burn-in.
An adapter is required to use a miniSD card. You can view images as thumbnails up to 12 images , view them individually allowing you to rotate the image degrees clockwise or counter-clockwise or view them as a slide show, with adjustable picture duration.
You can adjust the time duration for the slide show between seconds, 15, 20, 30, 45, 60, or seconds. You can also adjust the TV's picture settings for your still photos. Audio Menu: In addition to bass, treble, and balance, the TV's audio menu includes the following advanced features:.
Closed Caption: The television includes a built-in decoder that is capable of providing a text display of the audio. The program being viewed must be transmitting Closed Caption CC information. The TV features analog and digital close captions:.
Input Labels: Each input can be labeled to reflect the source connected. Station Caption: You change a channel's station name to a custom seven character name. Sleep Timer: This television features a built-in sleep timer, set by remote control, that turns the TV off automatically after 30, 60, or 90 minutes. Up to 5 events can be programmed using the timers. Lock: The Lock function has four settings to block viewing of particular channels or inputs.
You create a 4-digit password that's required to bypass the lock. The available settings are:. The OK button and directional keys allow you to move the on-screen selector, making menu navigation simple and efficient.
All of the HDMI terminals can accommodate copy-protected digital signals HDCP from other devices such as digital set-top boxes that have compatible interfaces. The HDMI inputs will accept p, i, p, p, and i inputs. Component Video Inputs: The two component video inputs will accept i, p, p, and i inputs. Digital Audio Out: The rear-panel optical digital output allows you to send a Dolby Digital bit stream to a Dolby Digital receiver or decoder.
The base comes unassembled, and unattached to the TV, so assembly is required. With the pedestal base the TV weighs Wall Mounting: On the back of the TV are four threaded inserts to attach an optional wall mount bracket.
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Please keep your phone line open. Panasonic also throws a smattering of controls, along with the SD card slot, into an access bay on the right side, which might be a bit difficult to access if the set is mounted on the wall.
A familiar yellow-on-blue menu system leads to the television's setup functions, and although the graphics lack the panache of a Sony or a Samsung menu, navigation was intuitive enough. We liked that the company renamed its previously confusing "Normal" command to "Reset," which more accurately describes what it does to your picture settings. In fact, Panasonic's inch plasmas all have p resolution, which is fast becoming a standard feature on all flat-panel HDTVs.
As we've said before , however, the difference between p and lower resolutions is difficult to discern, especially at this screen size see Performance for more.
While we appreciated the capability to adjust all of the five picture modes, and the fact that the Custom mode is independent per input , we missed the capability to adjust color temperature beyond the three presets. There's also no gamma control, which may have improved the realism of the set's shadows. Extra picture controls of note include a color management control that does improve color decoding slightly; a "C.
Panasonic also touts the mysterious Game mode, which turns out to be little more than an easy way to select a particular input. A quick press of the "Game" button on the remote toggles between any of the inputs that have been labeled "Game" in the input naming menu. Pressing that button does not engage the Game picture mode which is simply another collection of adjustable picture settings , nor does it affect video processing or lag time between controller and screen--although, to be fair, such modes on other HDTVs have little value as far as we can discern.
There's also a setting that lets the TV display every pixel of i and p sources without overscan , and we recommend using it unless you notice interference along the extreme edges of the screen, which can occur on some HD channels. The same selection of five modes is also available for SD sources. A new menu for deals with burn-in or, as the company calls it, "image retention. On the off chance that the plasma retains an image, there's a scrolling bar that slides across the screen as a sort of eraser.
We would have liked to see an energy-saver mode on this TV, especially with its prodigious power consumption --according to our measurements see the Juice box below , it actually consumes more power than the inch Samsung PN50A You can set it to "all," "favorite," "digital only," or "analog only. A VGA-style PC input is also on board 1,x maximum resolution , along with two component video inputs, an AV input with composite or S-Video, an RF input for antenna or cable, as well as an optical and an analog audio output.
Performance The Panasonic's picture quality was a bit less impressive, despite superb black-level performance, than that of the best plasmas we've tested recently. Our main hang-up revolved around its ineffective noise reduction and less-accurate color. The Cinema picture preset came quite close to our standard calibration , although we would have appreciated the capability to adjust the set's color temperature beyond the still-too-cool Warm preset, as well as the capability to tweak gamma.
We checked out Juno on Blu-ray for the majority of our image quality tests. Those deep blacks lent punch and dimension to both dark and brighter scenes; the black background behind the freaky girl Goth librarian, for example, was a couple of shades darker than the Samsung and the other displays in our test, aside from the Pioneer.
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