- The design I find successful and modern, antrazitfarbener framework does not look as great as it would be the case with black TV. The foot is silvery suits and other equipment that I still have.
- Ergonomics: The panel surface is slightly glossy and not matte as it is at Philips or Sony as critical as living room window is not in a 90 ° angle to the TV in my case, shutters are available and no other light sources tarnish the image.
- The remote control is well made, the menu for this gigantic functions very well done, and it also comes in the first few days of almost no manual, the TV has automatically mean DiSEq system detected and set up with 3 satellite positions (!) I have never seen in any satellite receiver, a compliment to the developers of Panasonic!
- Picture: A very bright and natural picture, I use the internal satellite receiver for HDTV and SD, also is connected via a scart adapter Technisat receivers and DVD recorders. For nearly all image sources I use True Cinema mode, which fits very well with film colors for the Scart slightly lighter "Normal" mode, the TV will remember for each input the selected screen mode. The quality in detail:
HDTV: very good, you should, however, provide Intelligent Frame Creation of "high" to "low", otherwise see movies like TV series from (soap effect).
SDTV: good to very good, it depends on the transmitter.
3D: very good depth image impression without flickering, tested on Astra 3D demo channel and Panasonic 3D app.
Scart: good, but texts in menus are not quite as sharp as it was in the old tube TV, with the time but I will upgrade to new devices with HDMI.
Aberration: From the beautiful Buzzwords, with which the expert in AVS Forum around throwing up (banding, Clouding, Flashlights, input lag), I can understand no one really sure with Burosch test pictures and videos. The only exception: Flashlights, in the completely darkened room with 4: 3 broadcasts are with black bars left and right recognizable. That's when Edge-LED due to design and can be minimized by Eco mode reduces the backlight of the panel.
- Sound, is amazingly loud and well understandable from around 20% volume, perfectly adequate for normal TV viewing, I use settings: Music mode, V-Audio Surround, bass +3, treble -2. About Scart with audio cinch diversion he is also analog sound of a satisfactory quality to the amplifier on, otherwise it should work well over HDMI or optical digital output. Positive: when headphones are connected, TV Lausprecher NOT be muted.
- PVR recordings: This feature is very important for me, because I look almost only be carried out recorded TV shows. The connection of Intenso Memory Case 750GB hard drive (2.5-inch, USB 3.0, black) was almost without problems. You have to switch the TV remote control to PVR mode, so that the Rec button at the bottom of the FB the USB recording will start because when default is DVD recorder operated, s. Page 29 in the manual.
TV recordings fold marvelously, even from standby the TV. During recording, you can not change the channel, but look beyond media player a previously recorded program or the shift of current. You can even use the image on AV1 of external satellite receiver or DVD.
The programming via EPG is very easy, then you can correct the start and end times.
The finished recordings can not edit unlike Technisat. Here the only criticism is due to the TV: the shots end up in encrypted "data grave" on the external hard drive and can only look at this TV, not even via Scart, you can archive them on DVD (but can be the live TV picture on DVD record).
- Media Player: A "omnivores" the date has everything Reproduced what I accused him via USB stick. DivX 720p and 1080, MPEG4 created by Apple iMovie, VOB files, even TS-HDTV file that has received a Skymaster receiver. Overall, better than a PS3.
- Internet / Apps: The TV is connected via cable to a powerline adapter and are videos from the Internet up to 10 Mbit / s without problems again. The ability to library of ARD / ZDF / Arte access comes in handy especially convincing at Arte with good image quality.
The game apps can be directly from the Viera Connect-install, one must, however, register and "sacrifice" an SD card with min. 2GB to as TV formats the SD card and no further information except that of the VIERA Connect tolerates on, otherwise the game does not start. The Let's-golf game has good graphics, but crashes before starting.
- DLNA client: If even super with the PS3 Media Server, photos, MP3 and video (even HD) can be viewed from the hard disk of the computer directly on TV.
Overall, the television has inspired me and my family, and is a strong buy recommendation.
