Panasonic 50" Digital Plasma HDTV- TH50PX600U

The Panasonic TH-50PX600U 50" Plasma HDTV delivers a cinema-style viewing experience at home. The 50" high-definition ready plasma screen creates deep blacks, bright whites and over 8 billion colors - for bright scenes with vivid realism. Its high 3000:1 contrast ratio gives you a superior picture; the wide range of blacks and whites are rendered with depth and dimensionality. Brilliant, vibrant colors are also fully recreated. Receive and view local over-the-air broadcasts on this plasma in stunning HDTV clarity using the built-in HDTV tuner. The CableCARD slots means no more bulky set-top cable boxes - insert a small card that allows you to receive standard definition and high definition digital broadcasts. A single HDMI cable carries high-quality digital audio and video, without having to deal with a tangle of wires. You can even share your JPEG photos taken with a Lumix digital camera, using the built-in SD card slot. 4 - 3 aspect ratio for TV/AV modes - zoom, full, just HDTV compatibility - 480p/720p/1080i Motion Adaptive 3D-Y/C Digital Comb Filter Color Purity Optimizer (3D Color Management) Video Noise Reduction Motion Pattern Noise Reduction Mach Band Effect Enhancer ATSC/QAM/NTSC tuners SD Card Slot (JPEG Photo Viewer 3) PC Card slot (PCMCIA, JPEG Photo Viewer 4) BBE ViVA HD3D Sound Surround Sound 6-speaker audio system - 2 bass-reflex woofers & 4 tweeters, 26W total output CableCARD ready HDMI-HDCP interface Video inputs - 3 Composite (2 rear, 1 front), 3 S-Video (2 rear, 1 front), 2 Component (Y/Pb/Pr, 2 rear), PC in (RGB-VGA, Mini D-sub 15-pin) Audio inputs - 1 PC, 3 audio, 3 rear Component, TV Guide On-Screen Program Guide Picture-In-Picture (2 sources) V-Chip Built-in closed caption decoder Sleep/On/Off timers Video Input Labeling Trilingual display - English, Spanish, French Power Consumption - 555W (120V AC power supply, 60 Hz) Inclu
Customer Review: Best for the money
I bought this HDTV in late June 2007. I have absolutely no regrets. People can talk 1080p all they want unless you have HDDVD or bluray there is nothing out there. There isn't even that much HDTV on cable or direct tv yet. This set has great sound, if you don't have a home theater system with this TV you won't need one the sound is that good. The picture is out of this world! What you can get on cable in hi def will make it so you won't even want to watch regular tv again. Six months in and I have no complaints everything works as stated by panasonic. The sd card option is great, it makes your photos look BIG with no loss in quality, as a matter of fact they look better! I hooked up an inexpensive upconvert DVD player and my old DVD's look better than ever. This month I purchased an Onkyo HT-S894 HTIB Onkyo HTS894 5.1 Channel Complete Home Theater System w/ Single Disc DVDand now my livingroom is like a movie theater. The effect of sound and vision is out of this world I could not be happier! All of my family and friends love it. Well that about says it all, if you are considering this TV and can still find it get it now you will never regret the purchase. The newer model Panasonics which are more expensive are not as good as this model.
Customer Review: TH50Px600U Panasonic Plasma
Shipping 4 days late;however, in perfect condition. Set-up easy, great picture right out of the box. 720P picture is very good, maybe the 1080P would be better; however, for the money difference, I feel the 720P is the better buy at the present time. Maybe in time, of course the 1080P, would be a better way to go. Sound quality on this TV is great! Overall, I think this is a high quality TV and you can't go wrong on this particular model.

After the drag of buying a perfect home theater equipment is over, you can consider another important issue, so as to obtain the maximum from your newly acquired gadgets: how to position the speakers, because this is the main ingredient of a private realistic cinema. There is no specific location, marked with a big red cross, since your room might be rectangular, or round, your speakers may be five or nine etc. and your personal touch to the design of the room meant to become a home theater highlight preferences, and it counts whether you have children or not, pets and so on. However, you do have general essential guidelines to follow when choosing a most favourable placement of your home theater speakers.

The first thing when engaging in the positioning of the home theater speakers is deciding the place for the center channel speaker and of the television, because the center speaker is the major transmitter of the dialogue and sounds that occur during the movie, and behaves like an anchor of your TV set. Consequently, it must be placed on the top of the television or below it, and in case you are mounting it on the wall, it should be lined with the TV below, with its front edge to be more exact. This way you get the minimum of distortion of sound that is caused by sound reflecting and diffracting phenomena.

The second thing you need to consider about your home theater system is the placement of the left and right front speakers, because they mainly give the superb surround sound experience and enables you to actually hear the soundtrack of the movie to way it's suppose to be heard: their positioning should be in the form of a small arc, lined up with the central speaker and at even distance one from another, ear-orientated. The precise measuring of the distance can help a great deal because an inch or two beyond the limit of your requirements can affect the correct output.

Surround speakers come in next, since they allow your home theater speaker placement to render the atmospheric sounds, the bangs and crashes of the movie you are watching. This is where your imagination comes in and there is no limit to how you should have an ideal home theater speaker placement, besides the fact that the surround speakers should obviously surround your perimeter.

However, these speakers should be lined up with your seating area or slightly behind it, as high or as low that they do not play directly at your ears, during your viewing a movie, but still, maintain them at ear level, measured up when you are standing, to be optimal when you are seated: try them out and see how you can get the best possible sound.

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