New telly time Panasonic or?

[Clifford Chambers]

As per the title really, only used as a monitor as we have a separate tuner and audio. (although built in smart+tuner would be useful as a back up)

47-50" always had Panasonic, used to the remotes and all our other kit is Panasonic. Should we stick with what we know or is there better value out there?

We want a good picture and around £500 budget.

ETA looks like plenty of brands I've never heard of emerging onto the market

Are (for instance) Hisense any good?

Edited by Clifford Chambers on Thursday 25th March 13:08

[Mutts]

we replaced our 42" Panasonic Plasma with this Panasonic TX-50HX800B 50". Been impressed with the picture and having Netflix/Prime built in is handy.
Plus it'll see my NAS on the network and natively play files off it.

[anonymous-user]

Are Panasonic TVs still made by Panasonic or are they essentially Vestel based now and just using the name such as Toshiba, Hitachi, Sharp, and JVC?

[Radec]

Joey Deacon said:

Are Panasonic TVs still made by Panasonic or are they essentially Vestel based now and just using the name such as Toshiba, Hitachi, Sharp, and JVC?

I believe only their lower models were made by Vestel, I think they brought them all back in house though.

Easiest way to check is look at the back label, should be made in Czech Rep if genuine, if it was made in Turkey then will be Vestel

[How u doing]

Well we wound up with the Panasonic 55" just under £50!0.

Not sure what to say reallly. Not obtrusive when off, took a bit of fiddling to get a decent picture, and occasionally goes green. Swapping inputs puts it right again.


Cheap and cheerful I guess.

[heisthegaffer]

How u doing said:

Well we wound up with the Panasonic 55" just under £50!0.

Not sure what to say reallly. Not obtrusive when off, took a bit of fiddling to get a decent picture, and occasionally goes green. Swapping inputs puts it right again.


Cheap and cheerful I guess.

I would not be happy with that. You shouldn't have to change inputs to make it work again.