Customer Reviews:
 Cant be bettered at the price July 19, 2007
Reluctant Reviewer
140 out of 142 found this review helpful
I have never written a five star review before, on the grounds that almost everything can be improved upon, but I am willing to make an exception for this extrodinary piece of equipment. When reading Amazon reviews, you must always keep in mind that the person writing it wants to feel good about the purchase, or is so hacked of with it that they need to vent their rage, so that is why the site has so many five and one star reviews and because of this they are not always reliable. For this purchase I looked on the Which website to get more detailed and reliable information.
This television was rated the best buy out of seventy LCD and plasma televisions currently on sale in the UK, taking into account picture quality, sound quality, ease of use and power consumption. It had the same score as the Panasonic Viera TX-32LXD7 which has a list price of a hundred and twenty pounds less. As it turns out, Amazon are charging sixty pounds more for the television with the higher list price, so I went for the TX-32LMD70 (it has two HDMI instead of one and a VGA input which the TX-32LDX7 does not have).
Since receiving it I have connected it to my Pioneer DVD player (component), Sky box (SCART) and Macbook (VGA), and I am amazed at the results. Everything is far better than I have seen and heard on other sets. According to the review I read, prior to purchasing the set, it excels when showing high definition; I have not tried this, but if the results for the other inputs are anything to go by, it will be exceptional.
The set up used:
Brightness 41/63
Contrast 52/63
Colour 32/63
Picture Profile Normal
Sharpness 3/6
Colour balance Cool
Colour Management On
PNR Off
These settings were recommended and I've found them to be worth using.
Superb value for money August 6, 2007
Mr. A. E. Hamer (Yorkshire, England)
40 out of 41 found this review helpful
We fancied upgrading our 10 year old CRT Sony widescreen TV when we upgraded to Sky+ and naturally I asumed I'd be buying another Sony. First of all I checked out the reviews on Which and was very surprised to see the Panasonic as the best buy recommendation, the review was based on the quality of the TV which received a score of 80%, factor in the £500 price tag and it was unmissable.
I bought via Amazon later that day and my new TV was installed and our children were viewing by 8:45am less than 48 hours later. Set up was easy and we were impressed by the security features where you add your name and address to the TV's memory in case of theft and subsequent recovery.
Very good picture, sport and nature programmes have been particularly good. Only critisism is that blacks could be a shade "blacker" - but we're not complaining. A great buy!
Umissable Value August 13, 2007
William Lyons (United Kingdom)
38 out of 39 found this review helpful
Like the previous reviewer, checked with Which and hey presto Amazon delivered in next to no time. Our TV was 15 years old so the jump to Widescreen and razor sharp images had us in awe!
Set up is a dream, we live in a "difficult" Freeview area and the internal receiver knocks the socks of our set top box which was by no means a cheap one.
Now we connect the laptop and hey presto we're watching High Definition clips legally available online.
You won't be disappointed :-)
Fantastic quality!! August 15, 2007
B. Desai
29 out of 30 found this review helpful
A great piece of equipment! Ready to go straight out of the box - it comes with the stand attached. Took only 5 minutes to set it up. I have checked both Sony and Toshiba LCDs and this one is better, both in vision and sound. Value for money at 550 odd pounds.
I have used the TV for more than a week and have checked most of the SKY channels including sports, movies and nature. 5 out of 5!! Try out the different viewing modes - the TV shows fantastic pictures in Dynamic view mode. The TV can also be connected to a PC or Laptop (cable not supplied). The menu and remote are very easy to use.
Go for it! You will love it!
Great piece of kit! November 21, 2007
P. De Caux (UK)
22 out of 23 found this review helpful
I have been in the process of buying an LCD TV for the last 18 months and have always put it off in the hope that prices will come down. There are a lot of cheap (less well-known brand) TVs out there that appear to do a good job, but there are, obviously, compromises usually in terms of picture and sound quality.
As a previous reviewer stated, the recent Which? review placed Panasonic as the best LCD TV manufacturer and, in the full online article, this TV was one of the highest scorers beating many higher priced models. At the time, Amazon were offering this model at a pretty amazing £495 delivered so I decided to take the plunge (I notice it has gone up a bit).
Even with the free delivery, it arrived within 3 days of ordering (thanks!) and I must admit to being a bit shocked at the size of it! We are used to a smaller TV and live in a cottage ...
Within fifteen minutes, I had set it up without any problems. The built-in Freeview tuner was better than our expensive set-top box (the signal here is appalling). The picture is truly impressive and the remote is easy to use (once you get used to the Panasonic layout). The sound is much better than I expected (this is one of the compromises - it doesn't have Panasonic's upgraded sound system).
Now, I just need to get a DVD player with HD upscaling so that all my DVDs can be revitalised!
Fully recommended.
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