Panasonic Th-p50g10a Manual

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In some areas, aerials can pick up signals from more than one transmitter. This can trigger the 'New Service? Message to appear.

When this happens, the television/recorder may accidentally tune into, or try to tune into, the wrong transmitter, causing either the wrong regional channels to appear, or on rare occasions, causing the loss of some channels. The solution to this is twofold. First, turn off the 'New Service Message' or 'New Channel Message' (please see your instruction manual for information on where to find this option in the menu). This will prevent the signals from the incorrect transmitter from prompting you to do a complete retune on your unit. Second, if your unit is a 2007 model or later., you will be able to manually tune the product. Before manually tuning the product, please contact Digital UK (50) to verify the channels that you will need to tune (you will be given no more than 7 channels to tune). Once you have these numbers, start the Auto Setup, but cancel it by pressing Exit or Return on the remote before it tunes anything in.

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This will delete all incorrect tuning information. Then go back into the menus and go to (DVB) Manual Tuning. The highlighted line will say Frequency CH21 or Frequency DVBCH21. Press the up arrow button (above the OK) on your remote control to change the 21 to the first channel number that you have been advised of by Digital UK. Confirm that the Signal Quality and Signal Strength bars are at least 3/4 of the way to the 10 (if the bars are less than 3/4 of the way to the 10, then you have a low signal coming into the unit on this frequency, and the stations may not tune in; if you do not see any bars, then the unit does not detect a signal and will not tune in the stations on this frequency). Press OK to tune in the stations available on that frequency.

Once the names of the stations appear on the screen (this could take up to about 30 seconds), press the up arrow button again (above the OK) to go to the next channel. Verify the Signal Quality and Signal Strength bars again, then press OK to tune these stations. After doing this for all of the channel numbers, press 'Exit'.If your unit is a 2006 model or earlier, it will not be possible to manually tune the product. The only way to prevent the signals from being received by the unit (and therefore tuned in) would be to block the signals. This would need to be done by adjusting the signal that is coming in from the aerial. Please contact your retailer for a referral to an aerial engineer in your area who would be able to do this for you.

With the departure of Pioneer from the TV game, Panasonic is now the go-to company for the best. Especially now, with its new ‘neoPDP’ Viera range. Features As the name suggests, this range features a newly designed ‘plasma display panel’. This delivers a number of enhancements, including increased contrast, but primarily increased “luminous efficiency”. Panasonic says that this is double that of the 2007 models, reducing power consumption markedly, without hurting picture quality. It also has a ‘600 Hz sub field drive’.

This is too complicated to explain in depth here, but I will note that plasma TVs deliver their images as an extremely rapid series of pulses. Panasonic’s new process ups the speed of these pulses for improved responsiveness and dynamic contrast control.

The particular model reviewed here is the 127 cm (50 inch) Viera TH-P50G10A. This features a full high definition digital TV tuner, supplemented with an analog one, but no PIP to take advantage of the twin tuners.

There are three inputs, including one on the side for convenient access. The TV has a Secure Digital card slot that you can use to display photos from your digital camera. However unlike LCD TVs, it would be unwise to use this TV as an enormous photo frame, since static images are likely to eventually produce some plasma ‘burn in’. However this TV also supports AVCHD playback from, which would be welcome for those with such devices.

It is provided with a desktop stand that allows a modest degree of side-to-side swivelling. Performance One weakness of previous Panasonic plasmas has been the reflectivity of their glass panels. Basically, too reflective for my taste. The best picture in the world is no good if you can’t see it due to reflections on the glass. This model preserves the glassy, smooth look of the older models, but with a new antireflective treatment that reduces those reflections significantly. The treatment hasn’t gone so far as to cause reflections to smear across a broad area of the screen, so this TV has about the best performance I’ve seen in this regard. The black levels from the TV were excellent.

I used a test disc that features some bright and colourful images in small areas of the screen, leaving the rest fully black. This TV did a great job with these, with a lovely inky blackness in those unlit parts, while the bright section shone forth. The colour itself was superb.

I still think that, good as LCD is getting, plasma colours offer that final one per cent of accuracy to nature, especially with grass greens and outback browns. This TV was simply glorious. The motion handling was variable. With plasma’s typical precision in delivering each film frame cleanly, there was never any smearing of the image, no matter how fast the football was kicked. Panasonic has included what it calls ‘Intelligent Frame Creation’, which I would have thought to be some kind of interpolation system to smooth motion.

If that’s what it is, it did very little. My usual Blu-ray disc tests revealed no increase in smoothness of motion, and surprisingly, the result was the same for my test DVDs. I for one don’t mind because I prefer to see the picture provided from Blu-ray or DVD as it is, not artificially (and by definition, inaccurately) enhanced. However if you prefer the glossy look to video produced by such processes, you won’t be getting it here. As for the stated efficiency boost, I found that the TV in ‘Normal’ mode actually used just 56 percent of the power required by its 2007 predecessor, with no apparent loss of brightness or colour. That’s what gains it a two star label (out of a top-rated six) on the forthcoming TV power rating scheme. Conclusion Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about this TV is that it sells for well under $4,000, which sees it beat most of the higher quality LCD TVs in the price/performance stakes.

This is truly a fine TV, and well worth considering if its size meets your needs.