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Panasonic PT-53WX53 53-Inch Widescreen HD-Ready Projection TV User Review

I really like the TV. I like the way the picture looks, considering that I spent 00, and not 00. I’ve had my TV a few days, so I can’t tell you how it holds up over time (I’ll be back). This review is a “tell you what you may want to know from day one” as much as it is a review. I hope I can help prevent you from damaging your projection TV by telling things not mentioned in the manual.

An earlier review (different website) gave the TV one star out of five because he said after eight months he had side bars permanently burned into his screen, and he felt the manual’s “don’t use 4:3 mode more than 15% of the time” wasn’t enough information. Keeping this in mind, I never use 4:3 with gray side bars (I can live with the “Just” stretch.)

The manual says nothing about a break in period (it didn’t say “this TV has new technology and doesn’t need a “break-in” either). I’ve read several internet articles that recommend special treatment the first 100 hours–have the contrast turned down. This TV doesn’t list “contrast” but I’m assuming “picture” is the same thing. One said 250 hours (most said one hundred). Everyone said turn down the contrast (or in our case, I think `picture’). One said to turn down other things (well, you need some brightness, or else no light gets to the screen and that can’t be a good break-in either J. Several articles on projection TVs said “Wow, after the breakin the picture became really great!” My second day I thought it was looking better than the first. One site said “don’t just turn on your TV for 100 hours and say `I’m done!’”, that the turning the TV on and turning it off (so that the components warm up, then cool down, etc.) was a part of the conditioning.

As delivered, the TV setting was on “vivid” which has the highest picture. I turned that all the way down. I hooked a computer LCD monitor up to my DVD player through an S-video, and ran component cables (red, green, blue) from the DVD player into the TV so I could compare the pictures. The TV seemed to error on too much red (people skin color), so I changed color temperature to cool, and there was too much color, so I turned down the tint. This gave people a more natural looking skin color. This isn’t a criticism of this particular model–one website named three TV brands and said they all give you a TV with the contrast (or picture) turned high and probably too much red. For comic relief, one guy mentioned that the stores put the most expensive TV’s in a category on “vivid” so they look better than the less expensive TVs.

One site said that the large the projection TV, the more likelihood of problems like burn in . I’m paranoid about the TV logos in the lower right corner if the logo is solid white (I sent ABC an email pleading with them to change to something half transparent so the colors underneath come through.) News channels with a running ticker at the bottom of the screen-never!

Right now while I’m breaking the TV, I’m not playing any cartoons. My understanding of the break in is to run the circuitry without a heavy load on the lamps (like driving your new car 50 miles an hour on the highway). To me, the cartoons are very very colorful, equivalent to playing a normal movie on vivid. Wouldn’t that defeat the purpose of the break-in? I hope to find something about this on the internet.

Biggest complaint- I’ve already seen with two of my widescreen DVDs that they don’t quite fill the screen from top to bottom (slight slivers of blackness at top and bottom) and none of the zoom modes will fix this. Those DVD’s are now banned from the TV(I’ll play them on my computer). One review site said the problem was that this TV only has four Zoom options, and other TVs have more. Maybe later I’ll get a new DVD player that can send out a signal with various zooms and then I would just put the TV on standard aspect (no zooming) to accept it. Perhaps this is my biggest complaint against the TV, that the basic “zoom” can’t make it zoom all the way in each direction. From reading the manual, I would have thought it would zoom completely.

TV gets 4 of 5 stars for excellent price to performance ratio. I wanted to give 5, but if all this stuff I found on the internet is true, then when I bought the TV, I could have read the manual, turned it on, and misused/abused it during the first few weeks of use. I don’t know how much new lamps cost, or what I would pay for the labor. The guy with the problem of the burned in side bars said that one would cost 0 total (parts and labor).

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Reviews Panasonic PT-53WX53 53-Inch Widescreen HD-Ready Projection TV

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Rating Reviews : 5.0

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Panasonic TC-L42D2 42 inch Viera LED Full HDTV,1080 Resolution, with Advanced Accessory Kit (2 HDMI Cables, 1 RGB Cable, 1 Audio Cable, Plasma / LCD Clean Kit, Monster 6 Outlet Surge Protection, TV Wall and Ceiling Mount) User Review

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Reviews Panasonic TC-L42D2 42 inch Viera LED Full HDTV,1080 Resolution, with Advanced Accessory Kit (2 HDMI Cables, 1 RGB Cable, 1 Audio Cable, Plasma / LCD Clean Kit, Monster 6 Outlet Surge Protection, TV Wall and Ceiling Mount)

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Panasonic TC-P42G25 42 inch Class Viera G25 Series Plasma HDTV 1080p with Basic Accessory Kit (2 HDMI Cables, 1 RGB Cable, 1 Audio Cable, Plasma / LCD Clean Kit) User Review

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Reviews Panasonic TC-P42G25 42 inch Class Viera G25 Series Plasma HDTV 1080p with Basic Accessory Kit (2 HDMI Cables, 1 RGB Cable, 1 Audio Cable, Plasma / LCD Clean Kit)

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Panasonic Viera TC-P42S2 42″ 1080p S2 Series Plasma HDTV & Panasonic SC-BT303 Blu-ray Disc & Home Theater Sound System (Bundle) User Review

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Reviews Panasonic Viera TC-P42S2 42″ 1080p S2 Series Plasma HDTV & Panasonic SC-BT303 Blu-ray Disc & Home Theater Sound System (Bundle)

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Panasonic TCP50C2 50″ Plasma 720p HDTV User Review

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Reviews Panasonic TCP50C2 50″ Plasma 720p HDTV

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Panasonic TH-42PX50U 42-Inch Flat-Panel Plasma HDTV User Review

So it has been over a year now, and not one single problem.

I am using this as an over-the-air TV, a montor for DVD’s, a monitor for HD DVD’s, and a montor for my Xbox 360.

It is all ran through a Yamaha Audio / Video controller, with Adcom amps front and rear, and Polk Audio Reference Speakers.

In my area, I get about 10 over the air channels–Fox, ABC, NBC, OPB and some others I can’t rememeber…

The Plasma automatically adjusts for whatever signal you are receiving, whether it is 480p, 720p, or 1080i. If it gets a signal in 480 4:3, you will get black lines on the sides…as of today, I have not seen any indication of burn in.

I am playing my Xbox 360 and watching HD DVD’s in 1080i. The picture is absolutely amazing! Just amazing!

I left the ‘picture’ on Panasonics default setup as ‘vivid’. Then I turned down the contrast (picture) to 10, sharpness to -5, tint 0, color 0.

I am using component in for both the 360 and the HD DVD.

I would recommend this Plasma to anyone!
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Reviews Panasonic TH-42PX50U 42-Inch Flat-Panel Plasma HDTV

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Top Model : TH-42PX50U

Rating Reviews : 4.5

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Panasonic TC-P42C2 42 inch Class Viera C2 Series Plasma HDTV 720p Resolution, with Accessory Kit (2 HDMI Cables, 1 RGB Cable, 1 Audio Cable, Plasma / LCD Clean Kit, Monster 6 Outlet Surge Protection) User Review

Most try to toss around 1080p and that’s cool its war a going on with plasma,lcd and and now led when it was time for me to pick one it had to be able to have rich blacks and browns so lcd was out and I really don’t need something that’s super bright so led was out . Ok so plasma it is but this one was diff. One of my friends has a 50 in lg plasma and it looks great but this one looks so much better it will run 1080p I tested it over and over again the 720p looks better then most 1080p tv’s out there my ps3 is happy and so am I the only bad thing is the sound could be better but just hook in your home theater system and this tv is going to bring new life to your old movies and games this tv will make you and so will the price
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Panasonic TC-L32C22 32 inch Class Viera C22 Series LCD HDTV 720p Resolution, with Accessory Kit (2 HDMI Cables, 1 RGB Cable, 1 Audio Cable, Plasma / LCD Clean Kit, Monster 6 Outlet Surge Protection, TV Wall and Ceiling Mount) User Review

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Panasonic VIERA G1 Series TC-L32G1 32-Inch 720p 120Hz LCD HDTV User Review

We purchased the TC-L32G1 in January after a bad experience with a TC-L32S1 in December (see my review there). The TC-L32G1 has worked great. The initial set up was easy and the colors, contrast, controls are good. We like the features. The only down side is the sound. It is more than adequate for our bedroom. We do notice a difference in sound between some channels so the volume variance in some cases is due to the broadcasting station. If you are purchasing this TV for a living or family room you will probably want to invest in a surround sound system. The overall purchase experience with Amazon was A+. I would recommend this TV for a bedroom or an office or den.
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Reviews Panasonic VIERA G1 Series TC-L32G1 32-Inch 720p 120Hz LCD HDTV

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Panasonic Viera TC-P50S2 50″ 1080p S2 Series Plasma HDTV & Panasonic SC-BT303 Blu-ray Disc & Home Theater Sound System (Bundle) User Review

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