Buy recommendation for the undecided

After the tube TV was getting on in years and the migration was on a flat panel for discussion, I decided after some research for the unit of Panasonic. Should be preceded by, that I no longer belong to the very young, for many years equipment from Panasonic use and does not need to have any new technical frippery.
Now, if you buy a new television, so you can almost buy a computer, with which you can also watch TV. But first things first ... So: the unit is carefully packed. The assembly of the very stable stand goes without problems. Nothing wobbles and needs nothing aligned let alone executed bow to be. I also have no mechanical weaknesses to the outer frame (which have been criticized by one reviewer) may find. After trouble-free connection of existing peripherals (Blu-ray recorders and players) commissioning, including connection to the WLAN running without difficulty. It is perfectly and quickly guided through the menu, by the integrated Viera also Youtube and you connect your iPad / iPhone are possible - if you want to because ...
After the device is running again, you would be well advised to invest some time and look at the menus to be familiar with the wide range of configuration and settings. Here brings "learning by doing" over the entire study of the extensive manual (that can be drawn so in doubt for advice, but unfortunately must first be printed). The menus are extensive but clearly, intuitive and self-explanatory substantially. The concern, something accidentally "adjust" is unfounded, since you can reset the settings to factory settings in case of doubt always.
The all-important is the image quality. I may say so, the bleating of some "professionals" (as found in all forums), not understand having problems with "blacks" o. Like.. Here fall outside influences, such as reflections sometimes unavoidable or the like by daylight. considerably more significant. And perhaps there may be also devices at the most critical assessment in direct comparison somewhat outperform (and then possibly located in a different price category). But even for the "critical ordinary consumer" should the image quality of this unit is more than satisfactory - the image, especially in HD quality is clear, clean and crisp, you can see every eyelash, every pore of the skin ... I'm anyway still absolutely thrilled by the quality of the image after several weeks - not to mention such fine things as 3D times ... here can even conservative people who have never seen black and white TV, are from Saul to Paul ...
A word about the sound quality. Who wants to have fat basses, will not fail to connect the device to a home theater. Who wants on the one hand a device that can not be flat enough, should not be surprised on the other side, if the bass just are a little "flat" ... But again: sound okay, a little more bass can be set in the Sound menu.

Finally, a critical remark. On the TV any normal hard disk can be connected, a button on the remote control and the current (or preprogrammed) program will be recorded. This in itself is a beautiful affair, but unfortunately a crucial catch: the data recorded on hard disk programs can only exclusively for this TV, so to speak, the "source device", are reproduced. A television of the exact same type, but with a different serial number recorded on hard disk data can not reproduce - this goes so far that even after a repair of the "source device" reformatting the hard drive needs to be made under certain circumstances and therefore inevitably a deletion of data is. This restriction had Panasonic might make for legal reasons or as a concession to the copyright owners of the footage ...

Despite these criticisms, the yes does not refer to an existing technical defect, you can give this TV 5 full points and full purchase recommendation.