Panasonic TH-42PX70 - 42″ Widescreen Viera HD Ready Plasma TV - With Freeview

February 9, 2008 | By Doug In Freeview TV |

Panasonic TH-42PX70 - 42″ Widescreen Viera HD Ready Plasma TV - With Freeview
Panasonic 42″ HD Ready Plasma TV **Note** No Stand Included

Customer Review: Good Plasma, bad specification and connection
I have bought this Plasma TV from Currys and very happy to find it so cheap.

I was happy with the TV but my downe side came to the connection part and to the specification.

The TV has a Very Good Picture but thats it what you have to enjoy it.

The digital receiver is very good as well for time being and the auto configuration on the setting it really work amazing well.

If you have a shop or want to have this TV for diplay only it is the best but if you want to connect more HI-FI or other home gadgets I wish you luck with it.

I would not recomend for a home user as it need more connection, like sound out, or jack-phono out, s-video connection and other connection.

I have this TV for a months now but regreat it that I bought and will try to sell it probably.

I will recommend buy a Samsung as they are on the market and have better specification like PIP and more extra connection.

Good Picture bad specifiaction and not enough connection.

Customer Review: Outsanding television
I’m still in awe of this television … I spent 3 months researching and reading reviews before making the decision.

I was watching the price all the time from different retailers and with the help of a cashback site (5%), a voucher code, and 4% cashback credit card, got this with Pedestal Stand for ?731.00 in September 2007.

The quality using cable tv, a quality dvd player and XBox 360 is very, very impressive and when the HD channels is on, the television’s chip handles it all brilliantly even though it isn’t a full HD 1080p television.

Unless you have the most amazing vision you don’t need 1080p for normal everyday viewing .. and all the television companies have said that they will not be transmitting 1080p in the next 10 years. Buy this television, you will not regret it.

Sony KDL32D3000 - 32” Widescreen Bravia HD Ready LCD TV - With Freeview
81cm visible screen size. 16:9 aspect ratio.
Customer Review: Best Value out there
Like others I researched for weeks and finally decided that 1080P wasn’t everything as I only needed a 32in - First of all the TV looks great - it replaces a 9yr old 32fx68 - I was worried about the SD quality from a sky box but I needn’t have been - it looks great. I opted for the D over the new P3020 due to the 100hz motionplus (it makes a difference) and the promise of handling 1080 input and the 24fps from a PS3 - Games look vibrant and Blue-Ray movies are great. But the biggest ‘plus’ is the upscaled DVD from a ?48 Sony DVD player - Bourne Ultimatum and the new Blade Runner looked fantastic. Sound is good - more than sufficient for our living-room Another big plus is the ability to set individual settings for each of the inputs 3x HDMI plus 2 SCART plus some others - this is a real advantage over other sets and the options are very detailed - I found the menu structure straight forward. - Shop around and get a good 5yr warranty. You will not be disappointed with this TV - it has many of the features of the X3500 for a lot less
Customer Review: Top quality television on HD and SD
I bought this set before from Amazon just before Christmas (at a much more reasonable price than currently offered via Electromart!) and was very impressed by Amazon’s efforts to meet their “by 24th December” deadline for delivery. Anyway now I have it and the Sony RDR-HXD870 DVD player/recorder to provide an upscaling HDMI feed I’m very impressed. I am luck enough to be in a place with strong Freeview signals, and even my basic indoor aerial gives great pictures. This has to be one of the best sets to display standard definition digital (Freeview) channels around. Pictures are crisp, motion blur is negligible and colour, after a few tweaks, is excellent. Turn off the default “Vivid” colour option and the automatic brightness adjuster for room lighting. It’s not good except for cartoons and maybe some games. Then tweak the various colour, contrast and backlighting settings to suit yourself. The picture with DVD’s is also excellent. I put in “Fellowship of the Ring” set the HDMI feed from the DVD player to 1080P (yes this set will accept and process a 1080P HDMI feed though it can’t display full 1080 HD) and was blown away. Superb picture and no motion artefacts even in rapid action sequences. The 100 Hertz processing is worth the money even in the default “standard” mode. Sound is very good even through the set’s own speakers, bass is surprisingly good. All round a fine television, and though Panasonic and Philips have worthy rivals, having looked at all three sets I reckon this is hard to beat. Only gripes are that HDMI is not the default AV input and I had to connect my DVD player by SCART initially to get them to talk to one another and then activate HDMI in both the TV and DVD player Settings menus even though they are both Sony. Settings needs some getting to grips with, but initial tuning is a doddle. Pay less than ?700 and it’s a bargain.

Sony VTX-D800U Freeview Digital TV Set Top Box
Used Price: ?119.99
Customer Review: Solid
My family have several set-top boxes, and this one is lightyears ahead of the rest. It just works; when you are looking at digital text, the pages are quick to load, and I’ve never had it crash on me like some Philips boxes are prone to do. The Program Guide is very logically set out and simple to use, plus there’s a wake-up function that many other boxes are missing, which is useful for recording programmes when hooked up to a VCR or DVD recorder. Also, the remote control is very easy to use, with the quality feel that you would expect from Sony.
Customer Review: the best digital reciever ever made….
bought 2 of these boxes when first launched 4 years ago,still running,upgraded to latest software,super quick,simply one of lifes items that performs faultless,even at ?199.99 it’s worth every penny!