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howdy I'm David Katz Meyer we've seen it and this is the Panasonic TCL 47 WT 50 this is Panasonic's best LCD TV for 2012 it's not its best TV however stevie is available in a 47 and a 55 inch size Panasonic is now starting to get into the larger screen LCDs that competes a little bit directly with its core plasma business and as I alluded to earlier this TV is not as good overall as the plasma TVs from Panasonic that we've tested let's talk about it styling though that is really darn nice this LED TV has a very thin bezel around the edge it's black with a silver extreme edge I'm also a big fan of The Stand it's kind of a v-shape kind of lets the TV suspend above the stand with this sort of swivel here and the silver sets off the black of the TV nicely all in all it's one of the nicest looking TVs we've tested this year panasonic also throws in plenty of features on this set you do get a second remote with this TV it's a touchpad model a lot like the touchpad found on a laptop computer works very well actually you get pretty good responsiveness as you drive around the screen it's actually particularly impressive for the web browser which otherwise would be really difficult to use i also like zooming around titles and stuff like that on netflix and amazon video on demand for example of course this TV has a full smart TV suite with those video services it also has a couple extra audio services they just added Rhapsody which is a subscription music service that I really like so all told the content selection is really good and I love the fact that you can rearrange the icons as much as you want don't love the fact that this TV has built in advertising when you first turn it on there's a little banner ad that pops up panasonic also sold space to advertisers on its homepage you can disable that banner ad but you can't disable the advertising anywhere on its smart TV sweet so again more advertising than we've seen on any TV built-in Panasonic selection of picture setting seems pretty good you do get plenty of adjustments in the custom picture mode as well as the cinema mode when we delved in however we found that cinema did not allow you to turn off d judder which is this smoothing effect that is sometimes been called the soap opera effect we really didn't like it and really wish you could turn it off in cinema mode you have to actually switch to another picture mode like custom or standard to turn it off so it's kind of a downside even after i disabled smoothing I found equality in the WT 52 BdoubleO a lot of the other high-end LED TVs it's competing against its black levels are relatively light and its color is not as accurate as i'd like to see at this level and its favor the WT 50 had excellent off angle viewing its picture maintain fidelity better than any LED TV I've seen so sitting to either side on the couch can actually give you a better picture than on a lot of the other LED TVs out there panasonic does provide plenty of inputs on this slim back panel there's four hdmi three USB and a pc input you can also connect component or composite video using a concluding breakout cable it doesn't include 3d glasses however and that's another downside of such an expensive TV anyway that's a quick look at Panasonic's TCL WT 50 series i'm david katz minor