With its 2008 Panasonic Viera Plasmas, Panasonic brings an astonishing 1,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio to the table. advanced pixel resolution and image-processing technology with the plasma TV's natural ability to beautifully reproduce fast moving images, so every detail is rendered with amazing clarity, and all the action is delivered with a high degree of fluidity.
What's New This Year?
- Super Contrast--native contrast ratios on the PZ85, PZ800 and PX 850 series are 30,000:1, double last year's 15,000:1.
- Dynamic contrast ratios are up to 1,000,000:1.
- new anti-reflective filter; lead-free "Tough Under Force" panel is resistant to impacts and scratches
- Built-in SD card slot with Photo Viewer/Gallery Player software
- x.v. Color and Deep Color (HDMI 1.3 features)
- 24p native reproduction
- Game Mode auto-adjusts image quality suitable to games and includes anti-image retention
- Viera Link is now compatible with Onkyo and Yamaha home theater systems
- At least 3 HDMI inputs on all models (4 on PZ800 and PZ850 series)
- THX Certification on PZ800 and PZ850 series
Which Viera is Right For You?
Click here to see a comparison of step up features on each Viera series.
One Sheet of Glass Design
Beautiful, elegant, and functional -- a single pane of glass covers the entire front of the television, including the bezel. This design reduces or eliminates the "halo" effect that can occur around lettering and logos with traditional 3-pane designs
| | Amazing color reproduction The incredible black reproduction of a Panasonic High-Definition Plasma TV results in impressive contrast and beautiful, natural colors. So you'll get warm, accurate skin tones, gorgeous greens, breathtaking blues and vivid reds. For color that's as rich and bold as life itself, look to a Panasonic Plasma TV. |
| | Consistent brightness from any angle A Panasonic Plasma combines anti-glare and anti-reflection technology with the natural light-emitting properties of plasma, to give you a super-wide viewing range with a crisp, beautiful image from almost any angle. |
 | Smooth, graceful motion When you're watching sports or movies with fast-motion graphics, you want a TV that can keep up with the action. With over 900 lines of moving picture, self-illuminating plasma displays eliminate afterimages in fast-action scenes. So whether you're watching a sporting event or an action-packed movie, you'll always get the most impressive viewing experience possible. |
 | 24p native reproduction Movies are shot at 24 frames per second. Unfortunately, TVs operating at 60Hz can only refresh 20 times per second, which means they must drop every fifth frame. With its 2008 Viera PZ85, PZ800, and PZ850 models, Panasonic introduces 24p native resolution, which means 24 frame per second movie content is reproduced frame for frame exactly, making for true-to-source smoothness of motion. |
 | 1,000,000:1 Contrast The Panasonic's Real Black system (a pre-discharge suppression system) and improved panel production processes combine to reproduce outstanding blacks with superb contrast. Each image is richly expressive, from bright scense, like scorching desert landscapes, to dark cave scenes. Compare the image produced by conventional HDTV on the left to the Real Black image produced on the right |
 | More Colors Viera HDTVs support the xvYCC color profile (Extended YCC Colorimetry for Video Applications), or "x.v. color" for short. Standard RGB color space allows the display of a portion of the colors that are viewable to the human eye. The next generation "xvYCC" color space actually offers an available range of colors that exceeds what human eyes can recognize. - Next-generation "xvYCC" color space supports 1.8 times as many colors as existing HDTV signals
- Lets HDTVs display colors more accurately
- Enables displays with more natural and vivid colors
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 | Deep Color Where x.v. color expands the available range of colors your HDTV can display, Deep Color increases the number of colors your HDTV can display within that range, for smoother transitions from color to color.
- Lets HDTVs and other displays go from millions of colors to billions of colors
- Eliminates on-screen color banding, for smooth tonal transitions and subtle gradations between colors
- Enables increased contrast ratio
- Can represent many times more shades of gray between black and white.
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Connectivity
Viera flat panel HDTVs interact with an array of high-definition devices and services, making it easy for consumers to access and enjoy content as never before. As of 2008, Viera Link is compatible with Onkyo and Yamaha home theater systems.
| Videos and stills recorded on SD cards can easily be viewed via the SD slots on Panasonic Blu-Ray Disc players and Viera HDTVs. | Viera Link means easy connectivity via HDMI cables. Finally, consumers can easily operate their Blu-Ray Disc players, DVD recorders and home theater systems with a single remote control device. |
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| Equipped with an RGB input terminal, VIERA can connect with your PC and serve as a large-screen monitor. | 4 HDMI inputs to connect all of your devices directly to your television.
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 | Long Life Panasonic plasma panels are rated to last 100,000 hours, which is about 30 years of regular or 11 years of non-stop usage before the brightness of the display is halved. |
 | Get Full HD with Blu-Ray Disc Players A Panasonic 1080p plasma television is able to render 1920x1080 pixels, but standard DVDs have a resolution of just 720x480. Blu-ray discs output true 1080p High-Definition resolution and have a storage capacity ten times greater than standard DVDs, so no pixel gos to waste. |
| Screen Size
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Full HD
1920 x 1080 pixels
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Base
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Cinema Color
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Reference
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Menu
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TH-42PX80U
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| - 480 Hz Sub-field Drive Technology
- Anti-Reflective Filter
- Viera Link HDAVI Control
- Built-in SD Card Slot w/Photo Viewer
- Deep Color Technology
- x.v. Color
- 3D Color Mangement
- Sub-Pixel Controller
- Motion Pattern Noise Reduction
- Anti-Image Retention Mode
- Game Mode
- Scratch and Impact Rsistant Panel
- 100,000 Hours to Panel Half-Brightness (>30 years @ 8 hours/day)
- Lead-free Panel
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TH-50PX80U
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TH-46PZ80U
| 46 inches | | 20,000:1 |
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TH-50PZ80U
| 50 inches | | 20,000:1 |
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TH-42PZ85U
| 42 inches | | 30,000:1 | |
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TH-46PZ85U
| 46 inches | | 30,000:1
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| 50 inches | | 30,000:1 | |
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TH-42PZ800U
| 42 inches | | 30,000:1 | | | | 4
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| TH-46PZ800U | 46 inches | | 30,000:1 | | | | 4
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| TH-50PZ800U | 50 inches | | 30,000:1 | | | | 4
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| TH-58PZ800U | 58 inches | | 30,000:1 | | | | 4
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| TH-46PZ850U | 46 inches | | 30,000:1 | | | | 4
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| TH-50PZ850U | 50 inches | | 30,000:1 | | | | 4
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| TH-58PZ850U | 58 inches | | 30,000:1 | | | | 4
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| TH-65PZ850U | 65 inches | | 30,000:1 | | | | 4
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Customer Review: Incredible, immersing, engrossing!
You can't help yourself! You'll find yourself mesmerized by the clarity and richness of this 58" masterpiece! Everything looks so lifelike it's freaky! The picture is impeccable. I was this close to purchasing an LCD until I came across this jaw dropping tour de force! I thought plasma was dead but this baby crowns the king. I can't say enough about the picture so I'll move on! The menu system is intuitive and easy to navigate. I have read some reviews about the sound quality being merely okay. I found the sound reproduction through the built in speakers to be quite good. The TV ships with "Standard" video mode settings which I found to be very dark. You can tweak all of the setting modes to your liking and I would suggest you do. The THX mode setting seemed washed out and not useable to my liking. No matter what settings I tried I could not produce a picture that I liked. My custom mode settings and my tweaks on the other modes are terrific! De-boxing and setup is very easy. This TV is quite heavy so grab a helper! I found no issues with reflective glare. Buy it now!
Customer Review: Panasonic Viera TH-58PZ800U 58-Inch 1080p Plasma
I wait about two months to write this review because I want it to really get a feeling for the TV in different lights, connected to different devises, and after the shock of a 58in TV has pass. In conclusion it is and awesome TV. I could not expect any better. It works on dark and bright room, it is cool to see the TV dim or get bright in response to the light in the room. I got a PS3 for games and blu-ray, even today after several movies I am still amazed of how clear and all the details that I can see. For sound, I am connected to an amplifier so I cannot comment on it but for watching TV works good. One last thing the super bowl was amazing in HD and with the this TV.
Customers in rent to own stores who are considering purchasing or renting a flat panel TV frequently ask which is better - LCD or plasma TV? The answer to this question is that it all depends. In order for the customer to make the correct decision about which is best, several important considerations must be taken into account. To begin with the customer should consider which of the two types looks best. This means which screen image looks best, and also which type of frame fits the existing furniture scheme. Another consideration is what light conditions in the viewing environment might cause glare or make the image difficult to see. Similarly, the viewing angle must be taken into account - whether the customer will be seeing the screen straight-on, or from the side. Another consideration is whether computer programs or games such as Sony Playstation or Nintendo Wii will appear on the screen. Another question to ask is whether the customer will be watching primarily sports, movies, or video games. The customer has to consider what size screen he or she prefers; and how much money he or she is prepared to spend.
The LCD and plasma screens offered by the rent to own industry both measure about four inches deep and so both can be considered to be flat panel TV's. However the two types use very different technology in order to create an image. In an LCD there is a matrix consisting of thin transistors which supply the voltage to film cells of liquid crystals between two glass sheets. These liquid crystals open and close in response to an electrical charge, and this action filters the white light from a lamp located behind the screen by blocking out certain wavelengths of light to produce specific colors. The vibrant color of LCD screens is due to the intense light which shines through the banks of liquid crystals. Plasma screens, on the other hand, consist of thousands of pixels which permit electrical impulses to excite neon and xenon gas. The pixels are basically tiny florescent light bulbs on a black background which receive impulses from the TV signal. The pixels glow when excited, which produces light. Red, blue, and green phosphors in the pixels mix to make up the entire spectrum of colors visible on the screen.
Although plasma TV screens have a higher contrast and deeper levels of black, LCD screens are getting better all the time, and many tier one brands of LCD screens currently perform almost as well as plasma screens. Also, a plasma screen has the ability to produce over 16,000,000 colors, so plasma screens have traditionally demonstrated higher color accuracy than LCD's. But the newest LCD screens are almost up to plasma screens in reproducing color fidelity and hence quality-wise are an equivalent rent to own business opportunity. Because LCD screens are so bright and don't glare as much as plasma screens, LCD performance beats plasma in bright rooms. On the other hand plasma screens perform better than LCD screens when viewed at an angle, although the newest LCD screens are almost as good as plasma screens in this department and LCD technology is closing the gap.
If the screen is going to be used in conjunction with a computer, then LCD is clearly the better choice. On the other hand, if the customer will be using it primarily for sports, video games, or any programs involving fast motion, then plasma looks better than LCD. When it gets down to the question of price for screens 42 inches or larger (plasma is not used in smaller screens), then plasma clearly is less expensive per inch than LCD.
Thus both plasma and LCD are viable rent to own industry options. Customers of rent to own stores have to carefully consider their own particular needs and viewing conditions to make a wise choice. Both plasma and LCD have their pros and cons which can make either type the best rent to own business opportunity in an individual case.
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