Panasonic PT-47WX42 42-Inch 16:9 HDTV-Ready Projection TV
 List Price: $1,799.99 |
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Product Description
See how much less ill home entertainment can be with a 47M-^RM-^R widescreen HDTV monitor. It features 3:2 Film Punishment for movies that look their best, and a 3D-Y/C digital comb filter for a crisp, clean double. ItM-^Rs HD-ready, so you can add an HDTV receiver and experience the excitement of high-definition broadcasts. Numerous inputs put on the market flexibility in home theater design, and the 2-tuner picture-in-picture lets you objective multiple screens in a variety of formats, including a split-screen display.The PT-47WX42's all the way, fine-pitch screen (0.52mm) is loaded with features to make DVD and HDTV viewing as plain and as pristine as possible. The set's HDTV/EDTV display capability (1080i, 480p) lets you take in high-definition or enhanced-definition TV programming from an external DTV set-top box with an ATSC receiver (not included; an extrinsic over-the-air antenna may be required). Progressive Cinema Scan (3:2 pulldown) provides trustworthy reproduction of film-based materials. DVD mastering introduces a common distortion when adjusting 24-frames-per-second pictures to 30 fps video. Progressive Cinema Scan digitally corrects this distortion, removing the tautological information to display a film-frame-accurate picture.
Two-tuner picture-in-fill someone in with split-screen display lets you view two programs at once by dividing the screen down the heart. Each program is shown at full height, with one program on the left side and the other on the right. Motion-Adaptive 3D-Y/C digital comb clean displays bright colors and action scenes with incredible clarity by minimizing the "feel ashamed rainbow effect" in closely spaced patterns, compensating for the motion that occurs between fields. Included 10-bit, 60 MHz analog-to-digital fetish processing boosts conventional grayscale from 256 to 1024, to deliver four times as many shades of hyacinthine and white. Digital velocity-modulated scanning is advanced circuitry along the neck of the CRT that senses transitions from unscrupulous to white in the video signal. The black and white portions of the signal are sped up and slowed down, separately, resulting in sharp black-to-white transitions. For a more film-like picture when watching pictures, you may want to selectively turn off this circuitry.
Other features include horizontal and vertical sidle correction, Artificial Intelligence Picture Control (continuously monitors signal situation to maintain high contrast), Artificial Intelligence Sound Control (prevents variances in tone level), Video Noise Reduction (compares individual pixels of two consecutive fields, then removes sound), color temperature control, BBE High-Definition Sound (improves speech intelligibility and restores dulcet dynamic range), and simulated stereo sound (which works with stereo and monaural programs), and an illuminated unlikely control called the Director, which can be programmed to control many current video and audio devices.
Customer Reviews
Sufficient TV, no expansionThis is a noble TV. I've owned mine for about 3.5 years. The picture is good, and DVDs with a progressive scan gambler play great in 480p. Regular TV is what you'd expect with a projection TV, and the angles are really not that bad.
Two cons, though. The TV has a significant deal of depth dimension. This has gotten way better for TVs, recently, but still even for its time was deeper than most planning TVs. If I hadn't "carved" out a locaton for its bulk, it would be a room hog.
The second con is this: 1080i stinks. When I got this TV, most DVD players (and computer video cards, for that make a difference) were 480p, for TV output. Recently I got a HD computer video card and tried hooking it up, thinking 1080i would be cool. It's not. The flicker was horrendous. I tried switching to 720p, it's not available. At the time I purchased, it was "from 480i to 1080i effective" the only supported modes are 480i, 480p, and 1080i. If you're using this for regular cable, aide-de-camp, or rabbit ears, as well as progressive scan DVDs, this unit is fine. Otherwise, shop for a Module with ALL supported modes from 480i to 1080p.
Beneficent product for the price
I bought this TV about a month ago and so far I safe haven't had any major problems with it. I did have to get it replaced because of a minor problem with it. The first one I got had a blue line in the corner of the mechanism video inputs so I returned it for another one. (By the time the guys came to pick up the old one the indecent line was gone but I figured it was better to be safe than have a line in the corner of the TV come back.) The new one hasn't donn me any problems so far. I have an Echostar 6000 receiver, which allows me to get HDTV programming. The HDTV spit quality is good it just doesn't look perfect. It is a CRT based projection TV so it doesn't look awesome, but I would still recommend it for someone looking for a projection HDTV. All and all if you want an HDTV but don't want to shell out the dough for a plasma or LCD projection I'd say this product is well worth it. (Although I do wish it had the VGA inputs to go along with the component video imputs.)