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First Look: One of the worst TVs of the year

2012-05-02
i untie Pendlebury from CNET and this is a review of the panasonic dt 50 LCD TV panasonic is a company best known for its plasmas but in the last few years it has offered LCD screens as a way to broaden its appeal to people sworn off plasma artifacts such as burnin but based on the performance of the dt 50 i'd suggest sticking with the company's plasmas instead looks-wise it isn't too bad but is a little faded it looks like a Sony Vegas that hitched a ride on the TARDIS in 2004 but it's got up-to-date features with onboard wireless all of the video services you'd want with Netflix Hulu and Amazon and it's also got four HDMI ports but the reason we'd suggest a plasma over this plainly this television is bad it's black levels are very poor for the money and we've seen better performance from the $500 TCL le40fhde3010 they're slow a lack of control means that it's not the most naturalistic either with too much of a red push at the higher end which means rosy skin tones and blue instead of black shadows while it's saving graces are decent 3d and playback of blu-ray movies without stuttering then not enough to save this television if it were 900 dollars instead of $2,500 for this 55 inch it might be worthwhile as a result the DT 50 is high-priced cosmetically dated and performs worse than a TV up to a fifth of the price if you have your heart set on getting a Panasonic TV we'd suggest overlooking this frankly dreadful model and go for it's amazing plasma equivalent the ST 50 and save yourself $1000 in the process I'm ty Pendlebury and this has been a review of the Panasonic DT 50 television you
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