What's the Panasonic TX-P42X10 TV Like? | The Communication Blog

Friday, November 27, 2009

What's the Panasonic TX-P42X10 TV Like?

By Francis McNamara

The Panasonic TX-P42X10 is one of the up-to-the-minute flat screen televisions from Panasonic. Although only a step above Panasonic's range of entry level large flat televisions, this has some respectable additions and features that you would often only find with more expensive televisions. It is also a plasma screen rather than an LCD.

With a 42 inch diagonal screen size, the Panasonic TX-P42X10 is amongst the bigger of the televisions you can get on the market today and while rather bulky, it certainly provides great playback of movies, offering you the perfect budget centrepiece to a decent home cinema system.

One of the most attractive factors in the specification of the TX-P42X10 is that it has a refresh rate of 100 Hz. Normally, flat screens have a maximum refresh rate of 50 Hz. If this doesn't mean anything to you, 100 Hz basically means there is going to be far less flickering on the screen and the image is going to appear smoother regardless of what you are playing whether it is video games, older lower definition video content of the latest in high definition content.

One thing of note which may be off putting to some people, is at the Panasonic TX-P42X10 is not full HD. This means that it does not have the highest resolution to allow playback of the latest in high definition content of its native resolution. Rather, the screen is actually HD ready but in all honesty, many viewers will not even noticed the difference with a slight lack of resolution. Instead, quality is more important and this screen certainly has good picture processing techniques to compensate.

With the ability to help minimise flickering in being a lot easier on your eyes, the 100 Hz refresh rate is definitely a defining point in the decision of whether or not you should buy the TX-P42X10. Panasonic also deploys is revolutionary technology which allows the screen to be far more versatile than many competing models. That is to say, the screen will automatically alter its contrast settings depending on the light in the room to make it look better.

Panasonic is also well known for adding a few useful and very welcome extras to their screens. Although it might not sound like much at first, one very handy and welcome bonus on the Panasonic TX-P42X10 is the SD card reader. This will enable to you by you all your pictures from your digital cameras memory card straight on the screen.

If you are short on space, and don't want to buy an extra speaker system, then the Panasonic Viera TX-P42X10 already has a pretty respectable sound system built in, however in spite of this, if at all possible, you should upgrade to a midrange 5. 1 surround system to get the most out of your movie watching experience.

The Panasonic Viera TX-P42X10 performs pretty well all round. It has all the features you would expect and providing the price is reasonable, it is a great choice and definitely considerably better than many competing products so it is worth consideration.

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