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Panasonic Viera TH-50PZ80U 50-Inch 1080p Plasma HDTV | 
| Brand: Panasonic
Category: CE
List Price: $1,999.99
Buy New: $1,429.00
You Save: $570.99 (29%)
New (27) Refurbished (2) from $1,331.91
Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 7273
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Batteries: 2
Batteries Included: Yes
Display Size: 50
Shipping Weight (lbs): 101
Dimensions (in): 54.5 x 36 x 13
nv:Display Area: 50"
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Contrast Ratio: 20000:1
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Signal Compatibility: 1080p
Input Video Signal: ATSC
Input Video Signal: NTSC
Speakers: Yes
Inputs: S-Video
Inputs: Audio
Inputs: Component Video
Inputs: HDMI In
Inputs: SD Memory Card Slot
Inputs: Composite Video In
Inputs: Analog Audio Input
Outputs: Composite Video
Outputs: Analog Audio
Outputs: Digital Audio Out
Power Source: 120VAC, 50/60Hz
Unit Dimensions (WxHxD): 49" x 31.1" x 3.7"
MPN: TH-50PZ80U
Model: TH-50PZ80U
UPC: 037988241958
EAN: 0037988241958
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 1920 x 1080 Resolution | | • | 1000000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio for the Brightest whites and darkest blacks | | • | 4096 Shades of Gradation for spectacular Color Reproduction | | • | Viera LinK#8482; HDAVI Control lets you operate all of your home theater components by pressing a single button on your TV's remote control | | • | GalleryPlayer allows you to enjoy the world's finest high definition art and photography on your Panasonic HD plasma TV |
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Product Description
50" widescreen HDTV (16:9 aspect ratio) * built-in digital (ATSC) and analog (NTSC) tuners for over-the-air TV broadcasts (antenna required) *
Amazon.com Product Description--March 10, 2008
With its 2008 Panasonic Viera Plasmas, Panasonic brings an astonishing 1,000,000:1 contrast ration 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. hr class="bucketDivider" noshade="true" size="1" h2bWhat's New This Year?br /b/h2 ul b /b liSuper Contrast--native contrast ratios on the PZ85, PZ800 and PX 850 series are 30,000:1, double last year's 15,000:1. br /li liDynamic contrast ratios are up to 1,000,000:1./li linew anti-reflective filter; lead-free "Tough Under Force" panel is resistant to impacts and scratchesbr /li liBuilt-in SD card slot with Photo Viewer/Gallery Player software/li lix.v. Color and Deep Color (HDMI 1.3 features)/li li24p native reproduction/li liGame Mode auto-adjusts image quality suitable to games and includes anti-image retention/li liViera Link is now compatible with Onkyo and Yamaha home theater systemsbr /li liAt least 3 HDMI inputs on all models (4 on PZ800 and PZ850 series)/li liTHX Certification on PZ800 and PZ850 series/li /ul h2bWhich Viera is Right For You?br /b/h2 Click here to see a comparison of step up features on each Viera series.bbr /b hr class="bucketDivider" noshade="true" size="1" h2bOne Sheet of Glass Design/b/h2 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 designsbbr /b hr class="bucketDivider" noshade="true" size="1" table style="text-align: left; width: 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" tbody tr td style="vertical-align: top;" div class="lookForContentImage" div id="flash_seo_content2" embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-pages/TV/panasonic/amazing-color.swf" id="swf2" name="swf2" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" quality="high" wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="akamaiFilePath=http://images.panasonic.com/static/learn/swf" height="200" width="452" /div /div /td td style="vertical-align: top;" h2Amazing color reproduction/h2 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. /td /tr /tbody /table hr class="bucketDivider" noshade="true" size="1" table style="text-align: left; width: 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" tbody tr td style="vertical-align: top;" div class="lookForContentImage" div id="flash_seo_content2" embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-pages/TV/panasonic/great-picture.swf" id="swf2" name="swf2" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" quality="high" wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="akamaiFilePath=http://images.panasonic.com/static/learn/swf" height="200" width="452" /div /div /td td style="vertical-align: top;" h2Consistent brightness from any angle/h2 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. /td /tr /tbody /table hr class="bucketDivider" noshade="true" size="1" table style="text-align: left; width: 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" tbody tr td style="vertical-align: top;"img style="width: 430px; height: 135px;" alt="" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-pages/TV/panasonic/viera-picture-lines-sm.jpg"/td td style="vertical-align: top;" h2Smooth, graceful motion /h2 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./td /tr /tbody /table hr class="bucketDivider" noshade="true" size="1" table style="text-align: left; width: 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" tbody tr td style="vertical-align: top;"img style="width: 430px; height: 163px;" alt="" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-pages/TV/panasonic/viera-picture-24p-sm.jpg"/td td style="vertical-align: top;" h224p native reproduction/h2 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./td /tr /tbody /table hr class="bucketDivider" noshade="true" size="1" table style="text-align: left; width: 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" tbody tr td style="vertical-align: top;"img style="width: 430px; height: 152px;" alt="" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-pages/TV/panasonic/viera-picture-contrast-sm._V13474123_.jpg"/td td style="vertical-align: top;" h21,000,000:1 Contrast/h2 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/td /tr /tbody /table hr class="bucketDivider" noshade="true" size="1" table style="text-align: left; width: 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" tbody tr td style="vertical-align: top;"img style="width: 430px; height: 364px;" alt="" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-pages/tv/panasonic/viera-picture-colorspace-sm.jpg"/td td style="vertical-align: top;" h2More Colors/h2 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. ul liNext-generation "xvYCC" color space supports 1.8 times as many colors as existing HDTV signals/li liLets HDTVs display colors more accurately/li liEnables displays with more natural and vivid colors/li /ul /td /tr /tbody /table hr class="bucketDivider" noshade="true" size="1" table style="text-align: left; width: 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" tbody tr td style="vertical-align: top;"img style="width: 370px; height: 398px;" alt="deep color eliminates visible color banding" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-pages/TV/hdmi/deepcolor.jpg"/td td style="vertical-align: top;" h2Deep Color/h2 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.br ul liLets HDTVs and other displays go from millions of colors to billions of colors/li liEliminates on-screen color banding, for smooth tonal transitions and subtle gradations between colors/li liEnables increased contrast ratio/li liCan represent many times more shades of gray between black and white./li /ul /td /tr /tbody /table hr class="bucketDivider" noshade="true" size="1" h2bConnectivity /b/h2 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.bbr /b table style="text-align: left; width: 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" tbody tr td style="vertical-align: top;"smallspan style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"Videos and stills recorded on SD cards can easily be viewed via the SD slots on Panasonic Blu-Ray Disc players and Viera HDTVs./span/small/td td style="vertical-align: top;"smallspan style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"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./span/small/td /tr tr td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"img style="width: 300px; height: 109px;" alt="SD Cards" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-pages/TV/panasonic/viera-network-avchd-sm.jpg"/td td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"img style="width: 300px; height: 153px;" alt="Viera Link" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-pages/TV/panasonic/viera-network-link-sm.jpg"/td /tr tr td style="vertical-align: top;"br /td td style="vertical-align: top;"br /td /tr tr td style="vertical-align: top;"smallspan style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"Equipped with an RGB input terminal, VIERA can connect with your PC and serve as a large-screen monitor./span/small/td td style="vertical-align: top;"smallspan style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"4 HDMI inputs to connect all of your devices directly to your television. br /span/small/td /tr tr td style="vertical-align: top; width: 50%; text-align: center;"img style="width: 300px; height: 109px;" alt="network with PCs" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-pages/TV/panasonic/viera-network-pc-sm.jpg" /td td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"img style="width: 300px; height: 105px;" alt="Easy connectivity with HDMI ports" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-pages/TV/panasonic/viera-network-hdmi-sm.jpg" /td /tr /tbody /table hr class="bucketDivider" noshade="true" size="1" table style="text-align: left; width: 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" tbody tr td style="vertical-align: top;"span style="font-weight: bold;"img style="width: 300px; height: 218px;" alt="long life" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-pages/TV/panasonic/viera-long-life.jpg"/span/td td style="vertical-align: top;" h2Long Life/h2 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./td /tr /tbody /table hr class="bucketDivider" noshade="true" size="1" table style="text-align: left; width: 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" tbody tr td style="vertical-align: top;"img style="width: 310px; height: 198px;" alt="Blu-Ray disc player" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-pages/TV/panasonic/bluray.jpg"/td td style="vertical-align: top;" h2 style="font-weight: bold;"Get Full HD with Blu-Ray Disc Players/h2 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./td /tr /tbody /table hr class="bucketDivider" noshade="true" size="1"b br /b h2ba name="comparison"Which is the Right Viera for You?/b/h2 b br /b table style="text-align: left; width: 100%;" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" tbody tr td style="vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold;"smallbr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold;"smallScreen Sizebr Measuredbr Diagonallybr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold;"small1080p br Full HDbr 1920 x 1080 pixelsbr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold;"smallNativebr Contrastbr Ratiobr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold;"smallPC Inputbr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold;"smallTHXbr Certbr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold;"small24pbr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold;"smallSpeakersbr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold;"smallHDMIbr Inputsbr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold;"smallOne Sheetbr of Glassbr Designbr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold;"smallSwivelbr Basebr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold;"smallShadesbr ofbr Gradationbr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold;"smallH.264br Codecbr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold;"smallDigitalbr Cinema Colorbr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold;"smallStudiobr Referencebr Modebr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold;"smallProbr Settingbr Menubr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold;"smallSerialbr Portbr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold;"smallStandard Features/small/td /tr tr td style="vertical-align: top;"smallTH-42PX80Ubr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top;"small42 inchesbr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"smallbr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"small15,000:1br /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"smallbr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"smallbr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"smallbr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"small2br /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"small3br /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"smallbr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"smallbr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"small4,096br /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"smallbr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"smallbr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"smallbr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"smallbr /small/td td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"smallbr /small/td td colspan="1" rowspan="16" style="vertical-align: top;" ul lismall480 Hz Sub-field Drive Technology/small/li lismallAnti-Reflective Filter/small/li lismallViera Link HDAVI Control/small/li lismallBuilt-in SD Card Slot w/Photo Viewer br /small/li lismallDeep Color Technology/small/li lismallx.v. 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We're pleased with our purchase. October 13, 2008
Guntown Bob (Pennsylvania)
We bought our Panasonic Viera 50-Inch 1080p Plasma HDTV after reading the reviews here, and we haven't been disappointed. The picture is great, and it was quite simple to set-up. We combined our purchase with a Yamaha RX-V463 receiver, Bose 301's (that we had previously) and a Bose CVS-10 center speaker, and it's been very rewarding. We advise that the reader take the time to do their homework and get the best deal that's available. And yes, the prices on these items DO drop; the price of our HDTV went down only a week after we ordered it.
I love this TV October 7, 2008
Mark A. Mills (Richmond Hill, GA)
Panasonic TH-50PZ80U TV br / br /Overall, I love this TV. It is fantastic. A few comments: br / br /1. The speakers are great, as far as TV speakers go. Anyone who complains about them are just surround-sound speaker snobs. That's like complaining that your Ferrari won't float in the lake. That's what your boat is for, dummy. Let's compare apples to apples. A TV is not a surround sound system. br / br /2. Most movies are not 16:9 ratio, as all widescreen TVs are. They are 1.33:1, which means you will still have black bars on the top and bottom of the screen, just like you did with your old tube TV. But the bars are much thinner, at least. br / br /3. Regular analog cable TV looks okay, not great, not bad. I think when you get a TV of this size, since there are limitations on the quality of regular cable, a 50" TV will magnify them, simply because it's so big. However, regular DVDs look fantastic. So if you are getting a digital signal, you shouldn't have any problems. br / br /4. I've had no issues as far as burn-in goes. I've had a movie paused for 20 minutes with no ghosting. I've also had the black bars on the top and bottom for 3 hours watching a movie, and light gray bars on the sides watching regular TV for hours, as well, with no problems. It also has a manual burn-in prevention selection, where you can run a white vertical bar slowly across a black screen as a prevention measure. I do that every once a while on my own, just to give myself a warm and fuzzy feeling. When you watch programs made for the old 4:3 tube TV ratio, it shows light gray bars on the sides of the screen. You can change these to black, but the TV likes them to be light gray to help prevent burn in, although it will default to black bars on the top and bottom when playing a DVD. br / br /5. Reflection, the other concern about Plasmas besides burn-in, is no big deal. It's glass on the front of the TV, so it won't reflect any more than your old TV, or the family portrait on the wall. You might have to turn off a lamp, or close the drapes to remove some glare, but even if you didn't, it's not a deal breaker. LCDs don't have glare problems, but then you have to deal with some blurriness on fast movement, so Plasma seems a better choice to me, especially since burn-in seems non-existent. br / br /6. The box says to keep the TV upright, and the manual said that some internal circuitry could be messed up if it was set on it's side, and I've heard from other people that you need to have the TV upright for 24 hours before you turn it on, but after doing research, the true concern is the huge, expensive piece of glass on the front of your TV. Remember when you see glass trucks rolling down the street, and all the glass is vertical on the side of the truck? That's because it's stronger on it's edge, and being horizontal in the back of a bouncing truck could crack it. I think that the TV is firm enough to keep the glass from cracking or the internal circuitry messing up if you drove slowly and cautiously. Besides, you kind of have to put it on it's side just to get it out of the huge box. I drove it in my van on it's side for 30 miles (that's how the store put it in there), and have had no problems. br / br /7. The box was so big, I initially thought that the TV might be too big for my living room. No such thing. The bigger, the better. br / br /8. The black setting was set to off, which keep the blacks from being as black as they could be. I switched it to on, which made everything a little darker, but I like it better. It's not the brightness setting, as this option was "off" or "on". I think this is a default setting they had for display purposes, to try to make the TV seem brighter for display. br / br /9. One last minor issue, there isn't a separate button for closed captioning on the remote control. I know most people never use closed captioning, but sometimes I can't understand what someone says, and I want to quickly read what they are saying, then turn it back off. br / br /Overall, this is a fantastic TV. I am extremely happy with it. br / br /As an aside, don't pay a ton for an HDMI cable. "Category 2" is as high quality as hdmi.org recognizes, and RadioShack sells them for $40. I have found that Mediabridge cables online for $4 are just as good, as well. br /
Great set for the money October 4, 2008
E. Haney (Ewing ,IL USA)
Should I buy online or from a store? I had all the fears of stepping out on the edge. I have never ordered from amazon and have heard all the debates on lcd vs plasma. I did the online and instore research for a month. My wife finally said just buy the dang thing so I went for it and man was I ever satisfied. From start to finish I had first class service and as for the Plasma let me tell you I am amazed at the quality. the HD is fantastic and the bluray is out of this world. This is a great plasma. This set in the stores was any were from 200.00 to 600.00 more and I would have had to go get it. Amazon brought not only to my door but also brought it in and and turned it on for a test run. I looked at buying a more expensive set ya know you get what you pay for but I myself read alot of customer reviews on this plasma and took the chance. I tell you take the money you save on this set and buy a bluray, HD receiver, Bluray discs, and a new Plasma hutch. you won't be sorry.
 Defective upon arrival, but great now September 30, 2008
J. Humble
We own a 42" version of this TV which we love, and decided to add a 50" downstairs. The TV arrived with a defect -- a two-inch vertical line on the left side of the screen which never went away. Everything else was working ok. After many attempts to get through to Panasonic customer support, they arranged in-home service for the TV. The technician replaced one board and it now works perfectly. We love it now. The technician commented that he purchased the 720P version of this TV because Panasonics have fewer problems than the other brands they work on, including Samsung.
panasonic 1080p television September 25, 2008
P. Long (springfield mo)
Great television. Crystal clear picture. Some reviews mentioned buzzing in the speakers and also heat but I do not have either. Perhaps improvements have been made. Even my best friend mentioned how it emittedless heat than the 32 inch lcd monitor that I replaced. I am hooked up to satellite high definition and use a digital antenna through the satellite to catch the local signals and they look fantastic. If I freeze a picture I do get some screen ghosting but it is gone in a perhaps 30 seconds. Far and away the best bang for the buck that I could find. Plenty of hookups for all my equipment. Zero regrets
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