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By means of reading 3D TV reviews, it would be easier for you to identify if the product is suitable for your budget and requirements. Here is a review of the latest HDTV from Panasonic, the VIERA TC-P50GT25 1080p 3D Plasma HDTV. Pros: The New Panasonic VIERA TC-P50GT25 3D HDTV offers superb performance on the black level as well as an accurate color in THX mode. Users will also enjoy the great color saturation with its antireflective screen. It saves you energy because it uses less power compared to the previous 1080p plasmas. You will also get to experience the Viera Cast that provides easy access to various internet services that also includes 2D to 3D conversion. Cons: What makes this model less perfect is its inability to handle 1080p/24 sources properly. Aside from that, you also tend to feel frustrated as it loses some of its black level performance. It offers only a few streaming services and apps compared to other 3DTVs in the market. 3D glasses are not included in the package. Features: Product Description: The Full HD Signals for Each Eye is an excellent method that used sends left eye as well as right-eye 3D images viewers which are the key to the quality of 3D image display. The GT25 series also display panel that allows the images for each eye to be reproduced alternately with the rate of 60 frames per second. This makes every user take a glimpse of the images with true and high precession using the 3D Eyewear, opening and closing both the left and right shutters to synchronize with the altering images. As you can see, 3D TV reviews are great guides before making any purchase. |
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A Display First, you’ll need a 3D-ready display–whether it’s a 3D HDTV, 3D projector, or 3D computer monitor. These displays have more processing power than standard 2D models for displaying 3D images in rapid succession. |
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A Source Your display may be ready for 3D playback, but you’ll still need a device to read 3D content. This can be a cable box with a subscription to a 3D channel, a 3D Blu-ray Disc player, or a PlayStation 3 system. |
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3D Content 3D content–the actual entertainment, in other words–will be played back using the source mentioned above, whether it’s a 3D broadcast from your cable provider, a 3D Blu-ray Disc, or a 3D video game. |
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3D Glasses For now, the vast majority of 3D HDTVs require glasses for 3D viewing. Many use powered “active shutter” glasses, others polarized “passive” glasses. You’ll need one pair per viewer, and they’ll have to be compatible with your display, whether they’re the same brand, or a pair of “universal” glasses designed to work across brands. |
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HDMI Cable To connect your source (such as a 3D Blu-ray Disc player) to your display, you’ll need a high-speed HDMI cable. Cables with this designation feature bandwidth speeds up to 10.2 Gbps (gigabits per second), for carrying the 3D signal without any loss of quality. |
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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful.
Great TV, 1 problem that undoes it ALL.
By vishal rana
Let me start off by saying 4 things first:
1) I LOVE Panasonic products. I have had their phones/shavers/Digital Cameras/and now a Blu-ray player and I love them ALL.
2) I even absolutely love the PQ on this TV as well (barring fluctuating brightness of course).
3) I’m giving it a 1-star rating with a heavy heart but with a firm observant mind.
4) I wish I never had to write this review.
The deal breaker??? – Fluctuating brightness!!!
I have read rave reviews for this TV here/other places and I agree with them PQ-wise. But IF and only IF your set has this and you’ve noticed this you’re done. I hope this is not the case with you but it IS the case with me and few others. Not sure how many “few” people it takes to get the attention of a major manufacturer but here is my viewing experience so far. I’ve had this TV for 3.5 weeks now.
This TV tries to adjust its brightness A LOT. Majority of the time a scene changes between a dark scene to a (much) lighter scene/area – you can see the changing brightness – especially on the face, it’ll go wayyyy brighter, then back to normal. Eventually the light will be perfect/even great hue but the “switching” drives me nuts. While dark scenes themselves look great overall – I also noticed some dark/darkness adjustment even in a night scene where the light in the scene/room was off. It happens much less often but it does. The adjustment in dark scenes are not that distracting as they are less frequent/apparent. Daylight/bright scenes – another story.
I even tried to “ignore” this by telling myself – oh well no TV is perfect and let me just “live” with it but I just couldn’t. Besides – for a $2K TV to do what my $250 seven year old Sharp (CRT) TV does NOT do is simply unacceptable.
I have tried Blue ray/SD content/HD contect/netflix/regular DVDs and they all display fluctuating brightness. I grant it’s not there ALL the time but boy when it rears its ugly head (which is often) – that is ALL I watch and well that is ALL I’m watching right now – not willingly I must add. I’ve gotten the latest firmware as well.
So why just a 1-star when the PQ/blacks are great. The brightness problem is so glaring that it handily undoes the MANY good/great/outstanding qualities of this TV. Speaking of outstanding – another great thing about the TV is skin tones – oh so natural. When I was TV hunting/doing “eye test” in stores – LED always seemed to have an edge. But man – this colors/skin tones are so realistic in this TV. I do not want to take away the great PQ of this TV – in all fairness, yet at the same time I do not want to take away the undeniably distracting viewing this TV presents to me. In fact I feel like I’ve been relegated to “watching” the fluctuating brightness instead of actually enjoying the experience of this otherwise great TV. I even tried telling myself – maybe I’m “looking” for this brightness fluctuation issue but no no no – it’s THERE.
I’m at a loss to explain why Panasonic did not/does not notice this – that is – if they don’t. They need to fix it and fix it now. I BELIEVE Panasonic can and should make it right. And I still maintain it’s a great TV. I do not know if others have had the same issue or to this degree but this has been my experience. I don’t know the technical details but they *should* be able to fix this with a firmware fix. I have NOT given up on them and hence have requested Amazon for another ST30. It is a great TV otherwise but you buy a TV to enjoy the programming content, NOT distractions. Panasonic – you are the top plasma maker in the market. You guys even have the entire (former) Pioneer/Kuro team working for you. Will you please make it right!!!
When I get the new TV – I will re-evaluate and post my findings. Oh by the way Amazon was 100% helpful/quick in sending a replacement. Thanks Amazon!!!
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
A superbly nice TV! And at 3K, it had better be!
By Leonardo Brown
Wow! My first review… OK, the set arrived Friday, 5/27/2011, delivered from Best Buy, obviously in a huge box… Its 65 inches after all… And after the Spanish speaking delivery guys mounted it on the stand, plugged it in and left me to hook it up myself at my request, I began setting up the TV.
This set comes with every possible connection that you will need to view and listen to anything that you want, it includes a WiFi adapter for your Internet applications which plugs into one of the two USB ports available and obviously, an SD card slot for viewing pictures, listening to mp3′s,3D movies etc.There is also a pc connection if you decide to go that route,but i use one of the HDMI connections for my laptop which does an exceptional job.
There are four HDMI input jacks, an optical digital audio output jack, and all the other standard inputs that you would need including a PC and a wired LAN connection.
Setting up this beast took approximately 15 minutes, after which I began looking at the digital as well as analog channels that came in on my cable system.
After setting the picture function to vivid, and backing off some of the adjustments, the thing looked superb… I also own a Panasonic vierra 50in plasma set that works like a champ, which is the reason that I went for this one, and the picture here exceeds the images I would see with the 50 inch.
I fooled around a little bit with the Internet applications, it has all the usual ones, netflix – twitter -face book etc.
It also has some games that you can play and if you want to,and you can download more apps… Some are free and some cost around 3 to 4 dollars to install in the TV. Looks nice and works as well as you might expect… My DSL connection is only 700 mbit so the quality isn’t as topnotch as it would be on a faster connection… Say FIOS or something.
I then throw in the avatar 2D bluray DVD, and that’s where this thing really shines! The set has a function in it that allows you to smooth the image. This is very useful for removing the jerkyness that you see on most televisions when things move from side to side or up and down and it gives the appearance of a very smooth and flowing image… I love this and you have the option of turning this on and off. You can see this effect on some sharp and Samsung LCD TVs… Now it’s available on plasma.. Very nice. The thing is maybe about an inch thick front to back so when you view it from the side you can barely even see it… And then as you step outwards from the side of it, you start to see all of the picture with no color degradation or reduction in brightness that you get with LCD TVs, so viewing angles aren’t a problem.
This is one of the clear reasons for me buying a plasma TV. And the black levels, as promised, are infinitely black! I viewed it in a completely darkened room and contrast levels are amazing… when the screen goes black, you couldn’t see anything in the room except for the red light on the television.
The set is 3D ready but you’ll need to buy 3D bluray player and the special Panasonic active shutter 3D glasses that you have to purchase separately… Another $400 or so for those additions… So for now I can’t comment on the 3D functionality of this set.. But I am sure that it is beautiful because everything else looks great on this titanic screen.
My son has seen it and is bugging me about getting the 3D glasses so that he can see how avatar looks in 3D so maybe there will be an addition to this long review coming soon. Kudos to Panasonic.. I love it!
5/29/11-I forgot to mention the one BIG negative that i have with this set,that is the speaker system within the tv,they SUCK!They sound like something you would find in say a 19″television,thin and tiny…its kinda weird that my 50″speakers seem to sound better than these but i guess that the thinking is with a screen this big,you will be using an external surround system anyway, as i do,so there’s that.It also comes with a very well-lit,when the light button is pressed,remote control.There are many more things this set can do,you’ll have to get one and play with it to check them out,
LB
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.This is as good as it gets!
By A. Goel
RESEARCH:
After doing research for months, I ended up buying the 65ST30 from Amazon for $2050 last month. I’m a first time Plasma buyer, so researched QUITE a bit into this technology. I was surprised how far Plasmas have come along. I used to think they don’t have a long life, or are an outdated technology. I couldn’t have been more wrong. I also looked at the GT and the VT series, but VT was out of the question due to ridiculous pricing, and the picture quality of GT didn’t look any different than ST30 at the local best-buy. GT does have a smaller bezel though, and is more attractive looking.
Also, after reading several reviews and talking to people on AVS forum – I found out GT has bigger issues with floating blacks and brightness fluctuations, so decision was rather easy. ST30 was the one to get.
CALIBRATION:
After I got the set, I used the D-Nice’s settings/slides to prep the set for his calibration (available online). You don’t have to do this, even using his calibrated settings looked pretty good out of the box – but I went through his recommended process, to get the best possible image. If you have the patience, I’ll recommend using his entire process. It’s worth it.
PICTURE QUALITY:
After inputting the settings provided by D-Nice (and some of my tweaks) the picture quality was simply breathtaking. I was just amazed how natural the image looked. I was told this is the biggest advantage of going Plasma over LED, and at first I wasn’t sure if I’ll see much difference – but now I’m sold.
I bought a 2011 LG LED TV just few months ago, and this Plasma is much better. I compared them next to each other, and it’s not close. Not only you get true natural colors with Plasma, you get very deep blacks and no motion blur. Can’t wait to watch some football on this beautiful set. I was somewhat worried about floating blacks – but no issues with this set. Watched a few Blu-Ray movies on it – and was blown away by the size of the TV and the fine picture quality. The TV speakers aren’t great, but aren’t bad either. I plan to buy a sound-bar at some point though.
FEATURES:
a) 3D – I’m not a big fan of 3D (not yet at least) but 3D is pretty damn good on this tv. Better than any other set I’ve come across. But, 3D image has always given me a head-ache, so I avoid using 3D.
b) Online services – Basic applications are there, such as Netflix, Amazon videos, Youtube. User-Interface is very simple to use and is intuitive. I mostly use these services through the Blu-Ray player anyway. You can play videos or view pictures through SD slot or USB drive or DNLA server (connecting to your PC through wireless).
c) Viera Connect – I love this feature. After I bought this TV, I also purchased a Panasonic Blu-Ray player and with Viera Connect, you can easily sync up the device with your TV and use the TV remote to control the player. Simple idea which makes a LOT of sense.
d) Remote Control – I’ve not said this in a while, but I absolutely love the remote control that comes with this TV. It is also back-lit, which is helpful at night. Again, very simple and intuitive.
CONS:
I have yet to find anything wrong with this set. But, I must say – no TV is perfect. LEDs have their issues and Plasmas have their issues. I was aware of basic issues with Plasma’s – so nothing caught me off-guard. I’ll advise everyone to research these issues beforehand, or ask me if you have questions. These are small issues to deal with, nothing major but one must be aware of them.
FINAL THOUGHTS:
Another thing I’ll advise everyone interested in buying a Plasma – don’t go by what you see at your local store. If you have to compare at the store, compare Plasma TV with Plasma TV – not with LEDs. Plasma TVs need to be set-up according to your room and lighting. If not set correctly, Plasmas are likely to look pale and dull. To get the picture to pop-out and look accurate at the same time (something LEDs struggle with), you really need to mess with the settings. As mentioned before, google for D-Nice’s settings – he is a professional calibrator who has shared his settings. Of course, you still have to tweak your settings – but it gives you a great starting point. Also head over to AVS forum where you can find more setting options and figure out what works best for you.
I’ve had this TV for a month, and so far, it has been one of the best TVs I’ve ever purchased. Since then, I’ve purchased a 50ST30 as well for my bed-room and am just as pleased with that set. When you factor in the price (for 65ST30 or 50ST30), I doubt you can find a better deal out there. I looked at the Samsung Plasmas (which are skinnier) and look great as well. In the end, Panasonic is a more renowned brand when it comes to Plasmas and are still a step or two ahead when it comes to black levels and over-all quality. Also, Samsung has very poor customer service – which made the decision for me.