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9.1 out of 10 based on 322 reviews.

Panasonic TX-P42G10 with 42" Full HD 1080p Plasma screen, 3 HDMI ports and FreeSat HD.

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Ease of use	9.1
Image quality	9.4
Sound quality	8.1
Design	8.9
Value for money	9.0
Overall rating	9.1

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trevor, rochester

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: excellent picture, not used viera link yet but appears easy to use. HD on freesat excellent. hopefully more programmes arriving.
Bad points:: none found as yet

Ease of use	9.0
Image quality	9.0
Sound quality	8.0
Design	9.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	9.0

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Confirmed purchase: 29 Nov 2009

Matt, Bourne, Lincs Sports and games fan

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: Great picture and sound, especially on the HD channels.
Bad points:: Viera Link control is frustrating to use.
Not Panasonics fault but lack of Freesat HD channels, currently only BBC HD (which runs most of the time and offers some good programming) and ITV HD (which provides about 10hrs a week through the red button).

Ease of use	7.0
Image quality	9.0
Sound quality	9.0
Design	9.0
Value for money	9.0
Overall rating	9.0

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Confirmed purchase: 25 Nov 2009

john, fort william Sports and games fan

Score 8.0/10

Good points:: Excellent picture
Bad points:: Find that sound is not what it could be. Would benefit greatly from all round sound system

Ease of use	7.0
Image quality	9.0
Sound quality	5.0
Design	8.0
Value for money	9.0
Overall rating	8.0

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Confirmed purchase: 19 Dec 2009

Confirmed purchaser Multi-purpose viewer

Score 10.0/10

Good points:: all good no bad points
Bad points:: none

Ease of use	10.0
Image quality	10.0
Sound quality	10.0
Design	10.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	10.0

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Confirmed purchase: 17 Dec 2009

Andy, Bristol Film and documentary lover

Score 3.0/10

Good points:: Price
Bad points:: Inbuilt EPG has buit-in advertising which cannot be removed; When displaying a large area of colour with a varying hue, the different colours are clearly seprated by a boundry, giving a ringed effect and unatural blur (Broadcast & Blue-ray), this destroys picture quality; Sound options need to be comprehensively tuned in order to provide voice vs. sound track ballance.

Ease of use	6.0
Image quality	3.0
Sound quality	4.0
Design	2.0
Value for money	4.0
Overall rating	3.0

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Confirmed purchase: 12 Nov 2009

David, Multi-purpose viewer

Score 10.0/10

Good points:: Great tv!! The picture is excellent and provides smooth motion when watching sport or other high speed movement thuis makes it also great for gaming via the HDMI cable, The sound quality is rich. It is very easy to set up, you just switch it on and it programmes itself. this model has built in freesat which provides two HD channels and is useful as there is no digital TV in my area by the ordinary ariel .
Bad points:: None

Ease of use	9.0
Image quality	10.0
Sound quality	9.0
Design	9.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	10.0

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Confirmed purchase: 10 Dec 2009

Richard, FARNHAM Film and documentary lover

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: The picture is superb. It was easy to assemble and set up. The SD card reader is a useful addition.
Bad points:: The sound quality is poor. I had to buy a home cinema system to improve the quality.

Ease of use	9.0
Image quality	10.0
Sound quality	5.0
Design	9.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	9.0

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Confirmed purchase: 07 Dec 2009

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Product Features

Screen size (Inches)	42
Screen size is measured diagonally from corner to corner.
Type of screen	Plasma
Most small flatscreen TVs have LCD screens. Some larger TVs have plasma screens. Some very new TVs have LED screens. Traditional TVs are called Standard or CRT.
3D	No

HD TV	Full HD 1080p
‘HD Ready’ is a Europe-wide standard designed to made HD technology less confusing. HD Ready TVs must have • Minimum resolution of 720 horizontal lines (in widescreen format) • Ability to display 720p and 1080i formats • An HDMI or Digital Video Interface (DVI interface) Full HD is a higher standard. Full HD TVs have screen resolutions of 1080p and can output at least 24 frames per second. Full HD is becoming common, but you won’t see Full HD on normal TV channels for a long time, so it remains optional for many people.
Built-in disc player	No Disc Player
Some products come with built-in DVD players or Blu Ray players.
Freeview or Freesat tuner	FreeSat HD
Freeview is free digital terrestrial TV. FreeSat is a free digital satellite TV service, which gives you HD programming from people like the BBC without having to pay for a subscription to a service like Sky. You need a dish to receive Freesat but not Freeview. For more information see the Freeview site or the Freesat site. FreeSat is a free digital satellite TV service. The main benefit is that you can get HD programming from people like the BBC without having to pay for a subscription to a service like Sky. You’ll need a dish to recieve the signals though.
Freeview or Freesat tuner	Freeview
Freeview is free digital terrestrial TV. FreeSat is a free digital satellite TV service, which gives you HD programming from people like the BBC without having to pay for a subscription to a service like Sky. You need a dish to receive Freesat but not Freeview. For more information see the Freeview site or the Freesat site. FreeSat is a free digital satellite TV service. The main benefit is that you can get HD programming from people like the BBC without having to pay for a subscription to a service like Sky. You’ll need a dish to recieve the signals though.
Number of HDMI ports	3
Like a scart interface but capable of carrying HD signals from or to other devices. You’ll need these to link your Playstation 3 or your Blu-ray player to your HD-ready TV.
Number of scart ports	2
Scart sockets are places where you can connect other devices to your TV. If you already have a DVD player, a VCR and a Playstation you might want to make sure your new TV has enough Scart interfaces so you don’t have to keep crawling round the back of the TV.
Connections	HDMI

Smart TV	No
TVs with internet capability allow you access to a range of online services.
Frequency (Hz)	100
A TV’s frequency is how often the picture is updated per second, and is measured in Hertz (Hz). A higher frequency, such as 100 Hz, means that a TV is more likely to show fast-moving images with high detail.
Response time (Milliseconds)	0.001

Screen aspect ratio	16:09
This is a ratio of the horizontal to the vertical size of the screen. 16:9 is standard widescreen format for TVs, replacing the older 4:3 format.
Contrast Ratio (X:1)	2000000
This figure is designed to tell you how much difference there is between dark and light colours on the TV. It is quoted as a ratio, between the brightest white and the darkest black. 500:1 means the brightest white is 500 times more bright than the darkest black. Plasma screens have historically boasted better contrast ratios than LCD screens.
Reflection angle	178
Also known as the viewing angle, it’s a measure of how good the picture looks when you are not face on to the screen. Higher is better.
Horizontal resolution (Pixels)	1920

Vertical resolution (Pixels)	1080

Electronic Program Guide (EPG)	Yes
TVs with this feature have an on-screen guide to all the programmes that are currently showing or coming up, so you can find your way around all the extra digital channels easily.
Weight (kg)	25

Release date	2009/03/11
The date the product was originally made available for purchase.

Also known as: Panasonic TXP42G10, PANASONIC TXP42G10B, PANASONIC TX-P42G10B, Panasonic Viera TX-P42G10

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Manufacturer's Description

Full-HD NeoPDP Models with freesat built-in, Superb Moving Picture Quality and Advanced Networking Capabilities â€œfreesatâ€ is a digital satellite service that offers free HD (High-definition) TV programmes. With the G10 series, you can enjoy sharp pictures, vivid colours, multi-channel sound, and various services with the interactive contents. 600-Hz technology lets you view superb full-HD motion and still images with 1,080 lines of resolution. For even greater clarity with motion images, Panasonic uses its own unique image-analysis technology. This technology converts the motion in each scene into data, then optimises the sub-field to display fast-action scenes in full-HD resolution. And each frame is displayed for a shorter length of time than in previous systems, to reduce aftereffects. VIERA incorporate an improved panel production process and the new Real Black Drive system. A pre-discharge control system, the Real Black Drive system combines with NeoPDP technology to achieve next-generation black reproduction. When you’re watching movies, VIERA renders images just the way the director intended, even in scenes where it’s difficult to achieve a proper balance of light and dark. VIERA Link allows interconnected operation of various AV devices using only the VIERA remote control, by simply connecting the devices to each other by an HDMI cable. VIERA Link performance has been further enhanced with LUMIX digital camera connection. By connecting a new LUMIX camera that has an HDMI output terminal to VIERA, you can use the VIERA remote to control the playback of images stored on the camera. It’s easy to view full-HD images with the SD Memory Card slot. Watch and show your photos and motion images right after you take them. Simply insert an SD Memory Card into VIERA to display photos and full-HD videos on the large screen. You can also choose from among 3 types of background music and 4 display effects. V-Audio Surround gives depth-sound-image effect by early-reflection data based on actual room measurement, that is generated from digital signal processor.

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