Reviews for Panasonic Viera TH-50PZ800U 50-Inch 1080p Plasma HDTV

Total reviews: 5 of 36
Average Rating:

• Wow | Rating: | Date: 2008-08-31

  We researched HDTV options before choosing Panasonic. This model offers superb quality and lots of great features. You can read about them elsewhere. I'll make only two observations:
  - I originally planned to purchase from a local Best Buy. The customer service there was awful, so I came over to Amazon. Amazon's price, selection, delivery and set up were all wonderful. I will never consider Best Buy again.
  - Amazon also had (by far) the best deal on HDMI cables. I purchased Monster cables from Amazon for $49 that Best Buy (shamelessly) retails for $139.
  
  Bottom line: the TV is great, and so is Amazon!

• Excellent overall with minor improvable | Rating: | Date: 2008-08-30

  The picture and sound are excellent. The minor issue is that remote controller operation is not very intuitive. The setup items are distributed in different keys and you have to find out which key is for what setup.

• Great TV and delivery | Rating: | Date: 2008-08-29

  The TV has been performing well and I still have not seen a price within several hundred dollars of the Amazon price (savings is even greater when you consider there is no sales tax-would have been 8.75% for me). The CEVA white-glove delivery service was excellent. The 2 guys unpacked the TV for me, helped me install the base, set it on my entertainment center and waited for me to connect my Directv receiver so we could check the picture. I would definitely buy this TV again and wouldn't look anywhere but Amazon.

• Nice quality Plasma | Rating: | Date: 2008-08-17

  This Television has excellent quality. I like the ability to choose THX setting from an on screen menu which produces realistic colors. Has easy to access front mounted controls under a door. A nice capabilty is to read SD camera cards and display the photos right on the screen (photos look great on this large screen!!). I also like the all glass front. I wish Panasonic had done something more elegant along the outside edges other than a black metal strip (small gripe). Overall very happy so far with this television.

• Hands down the best plasma performance and price wise | Rating: | Date: 2008-08-14

  The battle wages on between LCD and Plasma, but I know I chose correctly when I picked up this television. I have had it now for over a month and I still am as mezmerized as I was on day one. The colors and picture quality are absolutely brilliant. I have a friend that has a 1080p LCD TV and it does not hold a candle to the overall picture quality of this plasma. Again, the one drawback to a plasma screen TV is that it has a glass front, so if you are planning on having this in a room with lots of light and window, reflections will be a problem, and you might choose an LCD. But if you have a TV area like mine, hands down this is the best value and quality. 3 HDMI inputs (2 back, 1 front), 2 component inputs (1 back, 1 front) and your regular cable and composite hook ups available on back as well. The menues are easy to navagate, and the remote is user friendly. This also has an SD card slot that can handle the SDHC cards up to 16gb so you can display your digital photos. The only thing I wish the TV did was on the picture slideshow it allowed you to play music (mp3 files) during the display like some photo frames. Oh well, my pictures look excellent. Finally, my blu-ray movies and my HD-DVD movies are spectacular on this TV. Look around, but you will come back to see that this TV is a best value hands down.