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Panasonic Viera TX-37LZD80 Widescreen Full HD LCD TV is a bold venture of Panasonic into the LCD arena after great success in the plasma arena. With extensive functions, features and great picture and sound performances, this black beauty does enhance the look and feel of your home theatre.
The V Real Pro 3 Image technology incorporated in these
LCD TVs, gives crystal clear motion pictures with neat transition. Even the 24p playback feature makes cinematic reproduction of movie images smooth and clear. Equipped with Full HD feature, you get images with great detail and beauty. The x.v. colour signals processing used, helps achieve faithful colour reproduction. The IPS Alpha panel of the TV has an optimum viewing angle of 178° and enables you to view clear images from any part of your room. There are NICAM stereo type speakers that come along with this TV, which uses BBE ViVA HD3D to give surround sound effects.
This LCD widescreen TV, weighing 22.5 kilograms, measures 37 inches diagonally and has dimensions of 943(W) x 648(H) x 295(D) mm. You have the option of either mounting it on a wall or on the stand that comes with the package. The image aspect ratio is 16:9. With a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, an image contrast ratio of 10,000:1 and supported HD formats of 720p, 1080i, 1080p, very good high-definition image quality is achieved. The TV has a run-time power consumption of 150 KWh/24hr and a stand-by power consumption of 0.3 W.
In addition to the integrated
Freeview digital tuner, this Full HD LCD TV also comes with a composite input, an S-Video input, 2 RGB Scarts at the rear, a component video input, a VGA input and 3 HDMI inputs. It is Sky box and HDCP compatible as well. A PC socket is present too. The set also includes an SD Card reader for viewing photos and an optical digital audio output, to allow connectivity with an AV receiver. You could even use your personal head phone pair for listening, by plugging it into the Head Phone socket provided. The Viera link offered with the set enables you to control various AV devices such as DIGA DVD recorder, Blu-ray disc player, HD Camcorder with a single remote control - the Viera link remote control. This good quality, sturdy infrared remote control has a convenient button layout and the responses to button presses are quick.
One of the interesting features of this TV is the Auto Install feature, which helps tune channels automatically by the click of a button. The programme memory allows you to tune 1500 channels. There is a Sleep Timer feature as well that can be used to turn off the TV automatically. Quick access to Ceefax or Teletext information services is also achieved by the Fastext feature. The eight-day EPG with simple straight forward menus shows upcoming programmes and also allows you to set timers for the ones you want to watch.
Panasonic TX-37LZD80 is an excellent HD-performer. But it has not been able to match these standards with Freeview. The sharpness and fine details of the images are not up to the mark and leaves you craving for more with non-HDMI input. The market does have better LCD TVs that surpass this TV in these aspects. But all-in-all, the
Panasonic Viera TX-37LZD80 flatscreen Full HD LCD TV surely gives a treat to the eye and does have happy and satisfied customers.
