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Usually ships in 1-2 business days | | Only 2 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | Panasonic plasmas are known for their rich, realistic color. The TH-50PX80U can reproduce over 4,000 shades of gradation each for red, green, and blue. That yields a nearly infinite color palette of over 68 billion shades, to virtually eliminate the common picture distortion known as "false contouring." It causes the transitions between different shades of the same color to appear too sharp and abrupt, giving scenes an artificially layered look. Images on this TV look effortlessly smooth, with beautifully natural skin tones. Imagine the handsome 50" Panasonic TH-50PX80U as the centerpiece of your home theater. Its clean, space-efficient design is definitely living room ready.New Anti-Reflective FilterDeep Color TechnologyGame ModeBuilt-In SD Card Slot3 HDMI Inputs and VIERA Link HDAVI Control | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 52.5 inches | | Product Width: | 35.7 inches | | Product Height: | 13.0 inches | | Product Weight: | 98.4 pounds | | Package Length: | 52.5 inches | | Package Width: | 36.0 inches | | Package Height: | 13.0 inches | | Package Weight: | 98.4 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 71 reviews |
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| | Features | 1366 x 768 Resolution1000000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio for the Brightest whites and darkest blacks4096 Shades of Gradation for spectacular Color ReproductionViera LinK™ HDAVI Control lets you operate all of your home theater components by pressing a single button on your TV's remote controlGalleryPlayer® allows you to enjoy the world's finest high definition art and photography on your Panasonic HD plasma TV
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Great TV Mar 29, 2010
Great television. It has a really good picture and it was simple to figure out the controls. All of the bad things you hear about plasmas putting off a lot of heat and burn ins, I have not experienced any of that.
Absolutely the best TV I've ever had! Nov 28, 2009
My Panasonic plasma 50 Inch is the easiest TV I've ever used in my entire life. It has simple features such as digital tv selections on the remote, access to my pictures thru my smartcard reader. The reader is a little slow but the pictures come out absolutely beautiful. I have an S-Video output that works wonderfully and all's I had to do is plug in my laptop to my s-video or my HDMI cable to the tv, and it hdisplays on the screen with-in seconds. Please note: you must change to the input device. The HD quality is better than most TV's I've seen even with 1080p. LCD is just not very clean compared to plasma. But make sure you keep it face up at all times! Never place a plasma TV down on it's face. It will ruin the picture. I purchased this TV on a Black Friday special for only $700.00 and it was the best investment I ever made! It's well worth over $1,300+.
Stellar Performer for Budget Buyers Oct 05, 2009
I've own this TV for over a year now and it has been a stellar performer since we got it out of the box. My original hopes were for a temporary (ie affordable) solution for our home theater room-- but its so met every expectation that its grown into a permanent role.
The picture is very crisp, with very deep blacks, good light/dark detail, and accurate colors. Of course the picture settings out of the box were a bit vivid, but with some tweaking it looks a good as any similarly priced plasma I've ever seen (we chose the Panasonic after home-testing a similar Samsung).
I personally wouldn't lose too much sleep over the 720p vs 1080p. With HD signals and blu-ray discs the picture looks fantastic. And unless you're sitting within 2 feet of the screen, you'll probably never notice the missing resolution. (I have a 1080p Sony as well, and detail-wise they seem identical.) Besides, most the movies I watch are normal (upconverted) DVDs, which look wonderful as do the standard definition channels as well.
After one full year of daily use, I haven't had a single problem with this TV. And considering the low price I paid, I'd consider it a winner on every level.
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Great Bargain, High Quality TV Sep 23, 2009
I purchased this tv to replace a Panasonic Viera TH-42PZ80U 42" 1080p Plasma HDTV that was stolen.
I liked the 42", but felt that, with the distances I watched it from, a 50" would be better, and that 1080p was of no use to me.
I was correct. The 50" is better when viewed from 10'+ and it was impossible to tell the difference between 1080p and 720p. It was also $75 cheaper to get the bigger tv, so it was win-win all around.
I do wish it had a few more features, but I feel that it represents the best "bang for the buck" in plasmas at this price point and size.
Still a great 720p HDTV Sep 04, 2009
We purchased this set in Oct 2008 at our local Best Buy (incidentally at the $999 price that Amazon has today in 2009) and are very happy with it. Picture is fantastic, controls easy to use. Our cable company switched our HD cable box from a component output to HDMI, and man, did the picture get even better.
We also use an Apple TV connected to this television via HDMI, that looks great as well. Great fun to surf YouTube right on the TV, and the quality is actually pretty decent. We've rented and purchased HD movies on the Apple TV and they look fantastic as well.
Even though it is only 720p the picture looks great for my aging eyes, and we use it in a large living room seated at least 8 feet back. I'm not sure we could tell a difference between 720p and 1080p anyway. Great way to save a few bucks.
There is an optical audio output, so you can send the audio from your HDMI sources out to your receiver as well. We don't use the speakers on the TV, we run everything through our Onkyo, which also sounds great.
The main cons:
This set is light on inputs; only 2 component inputs on the back, 2 HDMI inputs on the back, and one HDMI on the front. With more and more gear using HDMI you might have to snake a cable to the front and leave the little door open. Minor inconvenience, as we don't have ours wall-mounted.
Also, this thing is rated for almost 500 watts of power when it's on. I did notice our power bill went up a little bit when we switched from our 19" tube to this monster. But the picture is great and worth the power premium. (I prefer plasma over LCD)
By the way, this is our only TV, and we're glad we picked this model.
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