The Panasonic TX-P42G10 - A Review

By William Jones

The blazing new Panasonic TX-P42G10 is among the first NeoPDP plasma tv sets you are able to purchase in the united kingdom. It proudly features a NeoPDP plasma screen that doubles the brightness output per watt used of every plasma cell. Putting it another way, the TX-P42G10 plasma HDTV from Panasonic will display the same level of brightness output when you compare it to its past generation predecessors, all while using barely only half the amount of power.

This means that it really should not have too many problems reaching lumen ranges that were typically reserved for liquid crystal display televisions. Further helped by an built in television tuner and 600Hz Drive IFC, the TX-P42G10's picture quality stands on a level playing field with most all other high rated flat screen TVs that are currently out on the market.

The Panasonic TX-P42G10 is missing the super thin frame design that is has been reserved to their more expensive lined televisions, regardless the TV is not bulky in the least, it has a nice thin gloss black bezel framing for the screen. There also is a nice silver colored trim piece shielding its logo away from curved bottom, it rests on a glossy oval pedestal stand that does lack the ability to swivel.

Looking at the rear of the Panasonic TX-P42G10 TV you will see that this is a high quality TV, there are multiple cooling fans that make no noises that will be a problem sitting at a normal viewing distance to the TV. There aren't any lifting locations like on other Panasonic TVs.

There are two nice quality speakers that will lay out crystal loud volume and crisp bass all with no distortion, but because the speakers a re hidden on the bottom of the Panasonic TX-P42G10 unit it hinders the stereo reproduction. There are so very little pixel blurring on this television set that high-def game systems on it will be really hot thanks to the nice contrast, glorious colors, sharp detail, and little lag on input sources..

Test measurements put the input lag with the game mode activated at up to 21ms faster than the Samsung F96 LCD TV. Even if Game Mode was not on, the Panasonic TX-P42G10 was on in the ballpark with the F96 weather or not the Intelligent Frame Creation was on or not.

TX-P42G10 is Panasonic's first shot at claiming the throne of great plasma tvs. Even though its black quality has gotten better to the level of a low end 8G Pioneer Kuro PDP-4280XD, they still trail behind the pioneer in terms of color accuracy and standard-definition video processing.

Regardless, if you do not overlook Panasonic for omitting controls and white balance and the set's low quality SD deinterlacing which can be fixed by letting a good quality input source do the job for it, the Panasonic TX-P42G10 is an excellent value-for-its cost due to its rich inky blacks, showing great shadow detail, natural colors, great motion clarity, nearly no input lag, the integrated Freesat branded tuner, a wide angle of view, and low power consumption this is a really nice television. - 30542

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