Should You Buy the Panasonic Viera TC-P65V10?

Posted by tomgreen on February 20, 2010

The Panasonic Viera TC-P65V10 is one of Panasonic’s best Plasma HDTVs. Here’s why.

1. Superb Black Level Performance

If you want images that truly pop out of your screen, you’ll want an HDTV with superb black levels – something Plasma televisions are known to deliver, and the Panasonic Viera TC-P65V10, in particular, is known for. Indeed, the TC-P65V10 comes with a dynamic contrast ratio of 2,000,000:1 and creates not just outstandingly deep black levels, but infinite blacks, thanks to its Neo PDP panel and Real Black Drive System. Combine these with its excellent shadow detail and other saturated colors and you’ll truly have an amazing viewing experience.

2. THX Mode

With the TC-P65V10, you don’t have to buy tickets to enjoy the movie theatre experience. You can enjoy it right in the comfort of your own living room by engaging the THX mode. This mode enhances color accuracy, detail and other picture characteristics, and even raises the audio quality up a notch, faithfully recreating the ambience of a movie theatre.

3. Video Processing

Like most HDTVs, this Viera model de-interlaces both film-based and video-based sources properly and displays every line of 1080p and 1080i content. Furthermore, it can reproduce 24p content efficiently with a 96Hz refresh rate – better, in fact, than the 2:3 pulldown option that other HDTVs offer. This means that you can get to see films in their original format without having to suffer from any flicker or other distracting problems. The TC-P65V10 also has a 600Hz Sub-field Drive, which keeps images smooth and crisp during fast sequences.

4. Interactivity

For your convenience, the TC-P65V10 comes with a couple of interactive features that you’re sure to love. For one, it offers the Viera Cast feature, which lets you access the latest headlines, weather reports and stock market updates from Bloomberg directly on your screen, which means you don’t have to check them on your computer regularly. You can even access the photos on your Picasa account and free YouTube videos, along with high-definition movies and TV episodes from Amazon Video on Demand – something new for the Panasonic V10 series. If you have a computer network at home, you can play the media files straight from them, too, thanks to DLNA, although the file formats you can play are currently limited.

Aside from the Viera Cast, this HDTV also comes with the Viera Link, which allows you to control other home theatre devices via HDMI-CEC for convenience, along with the Viera Image Viewer, which makes sharing your photos and videos easier via the SD card slot you’ll find on the side panel and more fun, with up to four display effects.

5. Good Connections

Connectivity is another strong suite for the Panasonic Viera TC-P65V10. Aside from the previously mentioned SD card slot, you will also find the VGA input for your computer and an HDMI input on the side panel for easy access, while three more HDMI inputs and more analog and digital connections are provided at the back, including two component video inputs.

All these make the Panasonic Viera TC-P65V10 a truly excellent HDTV, which is why you should consider buying it, if you can afford it, that is. After all, this model is also one of the most expensive Vieras out there, but certainly lives up to its price by providing a viewing experience unlike any other.

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