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Panasonic TH-37PX80B
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Panasonic TH-37PX80B - 37" Widescreen HD Ready Plasma TV - With Freeview and Pedestal Stand |
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ISBN/ASIN: B0013UMYPK
Release Date: 2008-02-11
Sales Rank: 456
Average Rating: 
Media: Electronics
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
Brand: Panasonic
EAN: 5025232461127
Feature: Screen: Format - 16:9 / Screen size - 37" (94 cm) / Brightness (in cd/m²) - Not provided / Contrast - 15,000:1 / Response time (in ms) - The response time of a plasma screen is practically zero. It is only limited by the speed of the video processor. / Resolution (horizontal x vertical - in pixels) - 1366 x 768 / Viewing angle (horizontal/vertical - in°) - 178
Label: Panasonic
Manufacturer: Panasonic
Model: TH-37PX80B
Publisher: Panasonic
Release Date: 2008-02-11
Studio: Panasonic
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| PRODUCT DESCRIPTION |
Manufacturer's Description
With its 2008 Panasonic Viera Plasmas, Panasonic brings an astonishing 1,000,000:1 contrast ration to the table. advanced pixel resolution and image-processing technology with the plasma TV's natural ability to beautifully reproduce fast moving images, so every detail is rendered with amazing clarity, and all the action is delivered with a high degree of fluidity.
What is a Plasma TV? A plasma TV is a thin, high-resolution flat panel screen that uses a matrix of tiny cells that are charged by precise electrical voltages to create a picture. Plasma displays are bright, have a wide colour range, produce deep, true blacks, have a wide viewing angle, and are light enough to be wall-mounted or placed on a stand. Plasmas come in a range of sizes.
What's New This Year?
- Super Contrast--native contrast ratios on the PZ85, PZ800 series are 30,000:1, double last year's 15,000:1. Dynamic contrast ratios are up to 1,000,000:1.
- new anti-reflective filter; lead-free "Tough Under Force" panel is resistant to impacts and scratches
- Built-in SD card slot with Photo Viewer/Gallery Player software
- x.v. colour and Deep colour (HDMI 1.3 features)
- 24p native reproduction
- Game Mode auto-adjusts image quality suitable to games and includes anti-image retention
- Viera Link is now compatible with Onkyo and Yamaha home theater systems
- At least 2 HDMI inputs on all models (4 on PZ800 series)
- THX Certification on PZ800 and PZ850 series
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Amazing colour reproduction
The incredible black reproduction of a Panasonic High-Definition Plasma TV results in impressive contrast and beautiful, natural colours. So you'll get warm, accurate skin tones, gorgeous greens, breathtaking blues and vivid reds. For colour that's as rich and bold as life itself, look to a Panasonic Plasma TV. |
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Consistent brightness from any angle
A Panasonic Plasma combines anti-glare and anti-reflection technology with the natural light-emitting properties of plasma, to give you a super-wide viewing range with a crisp, beautiful image from almost any angle. |
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Smooth, graceful motion
When you're watching sports or movies with fast-motion graphics, you want a TV that can keep up with the action. With over 900 lines of moving picture, self-illuminating plasma displays eliminate afterimages in fast-action scenes. So whether you're watching a sporting event or an action-packed movie, you'll always get the most impressive viewing experience possible. |
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1,000,000:1 Contrast
The Panasonic's Real Black system (a pre-discharge suppression system) and improved panel production processes combine to reproduce outstanding blacks with superb contrast. Each image is richly expressive, from bright scense, like scorching desert landscapes, to dark cave scenes. Compare the image produced by conventional HDTV on the left to the Real Black image produced on the right |
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More colours
Viera HDTVs support the xvYCC colour profile (Extended YCC colourimetry for Video Applications), or "x.v. colour" for short. Standard RGB colour space allows the display of a portion of the colours that are viewable to the human eye. The next generation "xvYCC" colour space actually offers an available range of colours that exceeds what human eyes can recognize.
- Next-generation "xvYCC" colour space supports 1.8 times as many colours as existing HDTV signals
- Lets HDTVs display colours more accurately
- Enables displays with more natural and vivid colours
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Deep colour
Where x.v. colour expands the available range of colours your HDTV can display, Deep colour increases the number of colours your HDTV can display within that range, for smoother transitions from colour to colour.
- Lets HDTVs and other displays go from millions of colours to billions of colours
- Eliminates on-screen colour banding, for smooth tonal transitions and subtle gradations between colours
- Enables increased contrast ratio
- Can represent many times more shades of gray between black and white.
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Connectivity
Viera flat panel HDTVs interact with an array of high-definition devices and services, making it easy for consumers to access and enjoy content as never before. As of 2008, Viera Link is compatible with Onkyo and Yamaha home theater systems.
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Long Life
Panasonic plasma panels are rated to last 100,000 hours, which is about 30 years of regular or 11 years of non-stop usage before the brightness of the display is halved. |
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Get Full HD with Blu-Ray Disc Players
A Panasonic 1080p plasma television is able to render 1920x1080 pixels, but standard DVDs have a resolution of just 720x480. Blu-ray discs output true 1080p High-Definition resolution and have a storage capacity ten times greater than standard DVDs, so no pixel gos to waste. |
Product Description
Boost your evenings in front of your favourite TV programmes and films with the TH-37PX80B plasma screen from Panasonic! Images will look more realistic than ever thanks to 100 Hz technology, which recalculates video signals at 100 images a second, instead of 50 or 60 images a second. The result is beautiful images that are sharper and more fluid, plunging you right into the heart of the action! HD resolution and advanced technology such as 3D Color Management and the Sub Pixel Enhancer only add to the experience. Thanks to three HDMi sockets, two scart sockets and a PC input, you can hook up all kinds of external devices to this screen it even has a digital tuner and a High Capacity SD memory card reader! Bring the cinema and technology home with the TH-37PX80B plasma screen from Panasonic you won't watch in the same way again! |
| CUSTOMER REVIEWS |
Delivery and product - just brilliant !: Rating: 5/5 Amazingly prompt service as always. Panasonic TH-37PX80B - 37" Widescreen HD Ready Plasma TV - With Freeview and Pedestal Stand Ordered on Tuesday and delivered at 9.00am on Thursday morning. All set up and running by 10.00am - it couldn't be simpler. Techlink DAIS - LCD & Plasma Glass TV Stand To 42" - Clear Glass With Silver Legs took me all of 10 minutes to put together and is just the right size to fit the 37" tv - a smaller stand would definitely cause there to be a tv overhang.
Very impressed with both products. The quality of the picture is superb, it makes you realise just how poor the picture was on an ordinary tv.
Finally, can't fault Amazon at all - always prompt and efficient service. My in depth review: Rating: 5/5 As a new, very proud and extremely impressed owner of a TH37PX80, i thought i'd drop a couple of lines, because i feel you all need yet another mini review of this set!
Before i start, i got this set for around £560 delivered from Amazon, which frankly is a steal, everyone coming over my new place is always shocked that this set cost me so little, i think i'll convert some people over to plasma
I just bought a new place and i've been busy with furnishing it and decorating it (almost all done and in a record time of a week!) and finally decided after months and months of research, testing, head scratching, to settle for this set. I was initially looking to get a 42PZ80, but it would have looked a bit naff in my livingroom, just too big, so i was a bit worried that i wouldn't be happy with the fact that the PX80 isn't a Full HD model. The PZ80 just looks so sharp! But in the end i can safely say that given all the things that are so good about this set, the lower res just doesn't bother me at all, the set is still very sharp and gives such amazing pictures!
First thing that got my attention was the lack of options. It makes the TV feel like a slightly more advanced "old school" CRT, with very simple options. In the end i thought, do i need any more options than this, REALLY? and the answer is simple, not really, now i can just enjoy what i'm watching and not stress about white balance, gamma and all those things.
I don't have an aerial so can't comment on Freeview, Sky HD is on order. So i just plugged in my Macbook via HDMI and i found that setting the res to 1280x720 is the best for me, fits the screen perfectly without overscan or black bars anywhere.
Blacks and contrast was my main worry. And yes, the blacks are definitely not "bezel black" except under favourable lighting conditions (low to medium light, it is most definitely not "bezel black" in a totally dark room, but close enough), but they are still SO much better than any other TV (mainly LCD) i've seen that i don't know how i could complain really, at this price. On top of that, my other worry that the set wouldn't be as bright as LCDs, was instantly killed: the set can definitely go as bright as an LCD at maximum settings such as Dynamic, not that i'd ever leave it like that, it looks ridiculous. Leaving Contrast at 50 (there's no number but i call it 50 to say "the middle") or one or two taps above is more than bright enough in Cinema mode, and looks very natural.
Colours-wise, i can only say that the set produces some really vivid colours, more "natural" than LCD. As a new-to-plasma guy, after having owner a few LCDs, i always thought that "plasma people" always talked about plasma being more "natural" to hide the fact that it's just more dull than LCD, and boy was i wrong! Now i TOTALLY understand what the "plasma people" talk about. Not being "in your face" does not mean being dull, it means being as close to reality as it can get, being vivid when it needs to be, being subtle when it needs to be, as opposed to being an explosion of very bright, unnatural and inaccurate colours like on so many LCDs.
Of course i can never tell how exactly "accurate" the colours are, like some of the professional reviews, but honestly i don't see the point. Green is a vivid green, blue is blue, red is red. All the colours are so much better (i.e. more realistic) than on any LCD i've seen that i don't see how anyone can complain, at this price especially!
Motion... I could go into detail like so many other people do, but in a nutshell, things move like you'd expect them to and without all the silly issues that i've seen on LCD for years. There is no smudging, blurring, artifacts, hieroglyphs, STDs... things just move from here to there and "don't look weird doing it", unlike on so many LCDs, that's the only way to explain it really.
What amazed me the most is that i put through some TV shows i downloaded. Generally low-ish quality which on my old LCDs looked atrocious, even though they were small sets. On the Panny they looked so much better i could not believe my eyes and for a moment made me wonder if i really needed Sky HD which i'm waiting for! If downloaded episodes looked like that (soft but not a pixelly, compressed, youtube-looking mess) then DVDs would look scarily close to HD, and Bluray will melt my eyes, when i eventually take the plunge, probably at the boxing day sales!
Lots of people have been complaining about sound and of course it's not exactly spine tingling, it gets the job done for casual viewing. With a TV like this, everyone should invest in a surround sound system for movies, which to me is almost more important than the visual aspect, nothing can beat watching a movie with sound coming from all directions.
As you might have noticed by now, i'm a very happy camper. I never thought i'd be so happy with this, or any, TV. If you're still undecided and don't need to go up to 42", then please do yourself a favour and buy this TV!Stonkingly good: Rating: 5/5 Great Value . brilliant picture.
In response to the one negative review, have you tried specsavers!Disappointing.: Rating: 2/5 I'm very disappointed with this TV. Many of the boasts on the product description failed to materialise.
The 'deep blacks' are not deep at all, and are in fact rather bright. Take a look at the comparison pics of the cave on this page - the greyish picture on the left is far more representative of the picture quality.
The 'smooth motion' is non-existent. All the fast moving scenes I watched on both Blu-Ray and cable TV had a juddering, strobey effect to them, complete with yellow streaks. Very, very distracting.
I phoned Panasonic about both of these problems, and the guy said it's the fault of whoever produced the entertainment that I was watching. Please!
There's more. If you watch a regular, square, 4:3 image, the bars at either side of the screen are set to grey. You can switch these to black on the regular AV channel, but you can't on the HDMi channels. Panasonic told me that switching the bars to black can't be done. I told them many of my friends have Panasonic Plasma TVs, and they had no trouble doing it. They replied that some TVs can do it, some can't. It's a lottery which one you'll get when you open the box, and there's nothing you can do about it.
I'm returning my TV to Amazon for a refund and am looking for another model.Excellent Plasma from Panasonic: Rating: 5/5 I would really just like to thank all the other reviewers for making my mind up over this one, our Q320 LCD lasted just 25 months, so thought that plasma may be worth a try, but I would have still been deciding at Christmas without all these reviews as the choice of TV sets these days is nothing short of staggering, but the choice of 37" plasma isn't. Bought from Amazon, with superb fast professional delivery, this TV boasts very user friendly operation which is a refreshing change, and I cannot really find a fault at this price, really impressive picture quality, loads of inputs, SD card CI card slot etc, good Freeview, audio output is acceptable, but sounds great through the HiFi system, so thanks again everyone for the very helpful reviews, and to Panasonic, cheers for a great television. |
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