Panasonic TH-42PZ85B - 42" Widescreen 1080p Full HD Plasma TV - With Freeview, Viera Link & SD Card slot

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Editorial reviews

Product Description
Panasonic's TH-42PZ85B is one of the most stylish plasma TVs on the market, and it performs well too! The TH-42PZ85B comes with three HDMI connections, a digital tuner and an SD card reader, and provides you with the most fluid, vibrant images in 1080p Full HD resolution for your favourite films and TV programmes. The TH-42PZ85B is also equipped with V Real Pro 3 technology for brighter colours and natural results without afterglow effects. You'll get the best out of your graphics too, thanks to a dynamic contrast rate of 1,000,000:1. And with its great connectivity, you'll even be able to hook up your Blu-ray player, games console or Home Cinema system and enjoy hours of non-stop entertainment!

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-11-09 rating:
Awesome
Partnered this with a Panny 35 Bluray and the results are really stunning. Considered the 800 but could not see the benefit over this one and the money saved = the bluray player.
Delivery was pants thu.

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review by: date: 2008-10-25 rating:
Plasma TV beats LCD hands down
Bought this 13.10.08. After looking casually for a future replacement for my Sony 36" glass crt tv, wasn't expecting to have to change so much earlier than anticipated. The Sony was only 5yrs old, and suddenly decided to go wrong. After calling endless repairers, finally got onto Sony. They have a selected Authorized repair network. 2in my area serving half a million people. Phoned them both. At least they both quoted me the same call out, £82.00, cos it would take 2 guys to take it to workshop. This was not refundable even if you have the work done. After describing the problem, neither seemed certain they could fix it anyway. I paid over £2000 for this set. So abandoned idea of repair and put money towards new one.
Did the usual trailing round, and decided on 40/42". Once you get to 40" plus with LCD you lose the definition and contrast. Researched everywhere I could think of (incl Amazon), and although one reviewer had issues with sound on this Pan I found it more than satisfactory. The picture outstripped all of the other sets I compared in the flesh, LCD or Plasma. This is an amazing set. Far better than I thought I could get for the cash I had. It's fantastic. Even got Panasonics own extra warranty for 5yrs included in the price. (1months promo only). Chuffed or what.
Can't recommend this highly enough, particularly if you are of the older generation. The extra size super clear sound and picture quality, will suit you perfectly. Only one thing left to say, well done Panasonic, this is a winner. Oh, and Sony stick it!

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review by: dickhead41 date: 2008-09-15 rating:
Great TV, Great picture
Finally decided to go plasma over LCD for the 42 incher, just think the texture of the picture is better, colours are fantastic, sound is totally fine in my 15'x15' room. If sound is an issue you can add an amp and speakers or buy the 800 model, my thoughts are that it is totally fine, sometimes I feel sound set ups take over the picture... you have a 42" screen and wembley arena sound, it's just wrong, the sound is too big for the picture !! I read about the lip sync issues and believe it is the broadcast, I have not experienced it yet but have on my Toshiba (new) in another room, only on the odd occasion and only sky, I dont think it is the TV's doing at all, 99.999% of the time everything is great, so highly recommended. Picture is brilliant.

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review by: date: 2008-09-13 rating:
Great buy...
Great TV at a good price. Delivered on time and to the room of my choice. Well packaged. Takes two to lift it out and set it on the base. Set up is a breeze. Remote control is well layed out. Picture quality for TV and DVD is superb. Sound quality could be better - seems to lack some depth or richness in audio, hence 4 stars.

Overall, very pleased with my purchase.


review by: date: 2008-09-08 rating:
Ever so pleased with this TV


Going on the back of lots of good magazine reviews, I went ahead with this TV. Bought from John Lewis in the end; although it's a little cheaper here they give a free 5 year warranty. Pricing changes all the time though so do check. And once you buy a new TV, stop checking. It's depressing how much cheaper they are the following month!

Here's why I chose this make & model:

- Panasonic consistently gets good reviews for plasma screens, and this one scores very highly.
- This screen is very bright, fine for my dual-aspect lounge.
- It is full high definition - 1080p 24p etc.
- It has lots of inputs. I have a Freeview recorder, two games consoles, and DVD player. There are still some spare.


Here's what I discovered after plugging it in:

- The picture is awesome - even with normal definition broadcasts. Motion is smooth and colours rich. It's not grainy even up close either. Try that with an LCD.
- The on board digital tuner is spot on.
- The remote control is well laid out and has nice big buttons.
- The sound is... well, it's ok. See below.
- High definition gaming is awesome!
- Smart metal and glass TV stands are very cheap at eBuyer.


Sound. Here's where my old 36" CRT TV scored highly. It had a big enough case (over a metre deep!) to hide large speakers and a subwoofer within. Physics dictates that plasma and LCD screens simply can't. I knew this but even so the sound is not great. So I have bought an Onkyo A/V amplifier Onkyo TX-SR606 AV Receiver (Black) and hooked it up with decent speakers. I think this, or getting a home cinema system is a must.

However overall I really cannot recommend this TV highly enough. So impressed. It's a solid five star product.

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