Panasonic TCP50G15 / TC-P50G15 / TC-P50G15 50 1080P Plasma HDTV
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Manufacturer: PanasonicModel: TCP50G15
Product features:
- 1080p Full-HD Resolution
- Elegant Slim Design
- THX® Certified Display
- Viera casttm
- 600 Hz Sub-field Drive
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Customer Review: Best TV I have found, for both the quality, and for the money, but not if you're depending on VieraCast updates.
Summary: 5 Stars
>> UPDATE January 16, 2011
This wonderful Panny TV is now almost 1 1/2 yrs old and it still looks every bit as good as the day I bought it. All the propaganda about how Panasonic TV's lose half of their brightness after about a year have so far proved to be completely FALSE.
But there is something that I am very disappointed in and that is Panasonic's VieraCast. I connect the TV to the internet wirelessly using a Linksys Dual Band Wireless-N Video Adapter (WET610N), and that part works great. But the VieraCast content is very limited. I'm lucky because I'm a German-speaker, and I enjoy both of the German language news sites, but apart from that, there's YouTube, Twitter, Picasa, a weather station link, and you can stream rental movies from Amazon, but NOT from Netflix. Panasonic supposedly updates everything but there hasn't been anything new since August 2010 and nothing was added in the way of content. But probably the worst thing about this TV's computer interfacing abilities is that I cannot wirelessly connect my laptop Window 7 computer to the Panasonic TV directly, even though I do have the Linksys adapter I mentioned above. If you are shopping for a new TV in 2011, hopefully all these no-show, no-go irriations have been overcome in newer technology. But if computer interfacing with your new TV or internet content through Vieracast are important to you, check all of it out thoroughly before you buy anything. One last time: the TV itself looks just wonderful and I love it, as a TV... but NOT as an extension of computer or internet technologies. <<
There were so many reasons that I was convinced I would never buy a plasma TV: 1. They run hot. 2. They use huge amounts of energy. 3. They last half as long as LCD-screen TV's 4. The image burn-in ruins the display if you don't watch it like a hawk constantly. 5. Plus, I live at over 6,000 feet above sea level and plasma sets are supposed to act strangely up here and make funny noises.
Well, after a GREAT deal of research of all kinds, I became convinced that, at least by 2009, none of this was true anymore. Still, I had had my heart set on a latest-generation Sony XBR for years, and it was just a matter of time before I got one. But that changed about six weeks ago.
My Panny G15 50" plasma has an absolutely gorgeous picture -- particularly when viewing presentations at 1080p, especially Blu-Ray movies. Hi-def cable shows look great also. And no matter what you're watching, plasma really does give you ultra-deep blacks and contrast ratios that LCD TV's simply are not physically capable of matching. And image burn-in? Really, unless you go off and leave the set displaying a static, unmoving image for many hours (at least) you are highly unlikely to have any burned-in image.
The Panasonic plasma sets are made by Panasonic itself, and it is one of the very few manufacturers that actually makes its own plasma screens. Perhaps this has some bearing on why the quality is so good. My set has the Energy Star seal, and it is reputed to use only half the power that plasma sets used as little as three years ago.
There is no "high-altitude" effect that I can see or hear at all, and I notice that today, Panasonic plasma sets are rated for at least 60,000 hours of life, which is the same as the rating for Sony XBR sets (with a tube, not a bulb). Another thing you should know is that there is nothing at all flimsy about the support pedestal. I've read some reviews that suggest it would be easy to break the stand, or tip the TV over. You'd have to deliberately crash right into the G15 in order to break the stand or knock it over because it is very sturdy indeed.
Oh, there was another motivation for buying the Panny G15 over an XBR9 -- I saved one thousand dollars, comparing a 50" G15 with a 52" XBR9. Price was not my driving motivation because I'd waited over five year to carefully select a widescreen TV, but, if you like the Panny's display better, and you save a thousand bucks? Kind of a no brainer.
Yes, there is one thing I'm not thrilled about with the Panny, and others have written about it, too -- the rather mediocre in-set speakers. This isn't a big deal for me since I always port the audio to my home theater stereo when watching a presentation in which I even care very much about the audio. Still, yes, the speakers in my wonderful old Toshiba 36" CRT set were quite a bit better.
Last bit of advice: DO NOT clean the screen of a Panasonic G15 except exactly as instructed in the owner's manual! Do NOT use Windex or any product with ammonia. The G15 has an excellent anti-reflective coating and you don't want to mess it up!
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