Dixons Panasonic Viera TXP42X10B 42 Inch Plasma Cheap Television Deal.

Dixons are currently advertising the Panasonic Viera TXP42X10B 42 Inch plasma television in their cheap television deals section of their website. It doesn’t actually say what is so special about the deal and you could probably find this same Panasonic 42 plasma television cheaper elsewhere but if we’re honest Dixons are a convenient option for many of us interested in buying consumer electricals and especially home entertainment equipment.

Panasonic Viera TXP42X10B 42 Inch Plasma Cheap Television Deal

The Panasonic TXP42X10B comes in at £523.99 at Dixons and is a HD Ready 42 inch plasma television featuring all the usual bits and bobs like 3 HDMI connectors. 2 SCART 1 PC and so on. Contrast ratios are pretty much regarded as rubbish marketing now so I wont bore you with any of those details, your just better off going to the shop yourself and see what you think of the picture.

The “blurb” on Dixons website says “The Panasonic VIERA TXP42X10B 42″ HD Ready Plasma TV incorporates a range of fantastic technologies to deliver superb quality images and advanced networking capabilities. For viewing action movies and fast moving sports, the VIERA TXP42X10B features a trio of advanced technologies to enhance the experience. With 100HZ Double Scan, a 0.001 Response time and Panasonic’s Intelligent Frame Creation, picture reproduction of moving images are smooth and flicker free. The picture produced from the VIERA TXP42X10B HD Ready Plasma displays colours as close to nature as possible and its Real Black Drive system raises the base illumination to reproduce the fine balance of light and dark with stunning results. For an outstanding sound experience, the VIERA TXP42X10B comes equipped with V-Audio technology, combining digital amplifier, carbon speakers, slim side speakers and SRS Tru surround or BBE VIVA HD3D sound. Together, these deliver superb clarity, a rich bass and advanced sound localisation to bring cinema style audio without the need for an external surround sound system. “

Take what you want from that however over at Amazon where the same plasma television sells for £579.91 it has 7 customer reviews all giving it 5 stars! I’ve plucked 2 reviews from Amazon’s customers to give you a better feel as to if the Panasonic TXP42Z10B is worth your hard earned money or not.

Panasonic Plasma TXP42Z10B review 1 from Toby: “I bought one of these after having a Panasonic px80 for a short period. These unit need proper bedding in for the first few hundred hours display (or much shorter if you use a utility like jscreenfix). The display does improve further after this bedding in period.

To keep this short, the display is excellent, both SD and HD despite this only being a HD ready resolution. Blacks are deep and detail is fabulously clear, Regarding size: You need at least a 12 *12 room for these 42″ screens not to be somewhat overpowering. I would suggest that for smaller rooms the 37″ model would give a better experience.

The only downsides i see are : Over scaling if turned off shows that these units need better screen alignment from the factory. 3 out of 4 units I have viewed had relatively minor but irritating screen alignment issues which cannot be adjusted without accessing the engineers service menu (which could invalidate your warranty).

The on-board tuner appears to be poorer quality than the older px8 models. Other than that, the quality is utterly superb as long as you have good quality input. Sky gives mainly superb pictures from SD channels. VM’s cable is far more varied.”

Panasonic Plasma TXP42Z10B review 2 from Freewheeler: “My wife and I are both very pleased with this TV, which was a replacement for a Panasonic 28″ CRT which had developed a slight picture defect after 11 years of excellent service (so no complaints there eh?)

But this Plasma TV is excellent value, both picture and sound are superb. We also did a DIY Freesat installation and the HD channels on Freesat are very sharp, every bit as good as we expected. The design is a bit retro, but I find the high gloss black surround and stand aesthetically pleasant to look at.”