Panasonic announce their 2008 flatscreen line-up
Panasonic have released details of their 2008 television line up. And from the looks of it, reports of the death of plasma have been exaggerated.
Panasonic have restricted their LCD range to just 32" and 37" models, with plasma panels available at 37, 42, 46 and 50" sizes. If you’re looking for a smaller screen than that, you’re out of luck.
Given LCD’s decreasing price and increasing share of the 40"+ market, it is a little surprising to see Panasonic sticking to plasmas at the larger sizes. But the evidence from customer reviews does suggest that Pana know plasmas, so why not stick with what you know?
All in all, Panasonic will be releasing 24 new models this year, and there’s a great rundown over at the WhatHiFi televisions blog.
There’s also this helpful guide to the updated Pana model name conventions:
The new Vieras will come in 8-, 80-, 81-, 85- and 800-series varieties,
and as previously, Panasonic drops handy hint in the model name as to
its spec. Hence all 12 Full HD models - all of which fully support
24fps - carry a ‘Z’, while HD Ready TVs feature an ‘X’. Plasma are
denoted by the ‘TH’ prefix and LCDs by ‘TX’.Hence the TX32LZD80 is a 32in Full HD LCD set
The first models will be hitting the shops in March.
Blog posted on Thursday, February 28th, 2008 at 11:17 am under Televisions. Leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.
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