I forgot to mention in my entry ‘
Pokeing sight’, one method on how I chose TV….. is '
If I can see hair very clearly than that TV is a good TV'! He! He! By hair I really meant hair, could be the hair on the face or the ‘hair down there’!!!! This is possible when I watch ‘ahem ahem’ movie. Oh yes! I use this method on my
Samsung 22” wide screen LCD PC monitor; so far I am very happy with my choice. As mention in this post my
34” Samsung Flat TV has gone ‘kaput’ so no choice but to look for new TV. U can see how much I suffer in this
entry!
Finally my TV arrived! It is one big ass Panasonic TH-50PY700H Full HD ( High Definition ) 50” Plasma TV! Ok! Lets me post up what this baby can do & show!

Plasma Panasonic TH-50PY700H in the Box. U can compare it to the LCD Panasonic 32” TX-32LX75M box. Oh! The box only contain the plasma TV. The pedestal is in a separated box ( The pedestal arrived much later, in fact two weeks late! Can see but cannot use! No pedestal, so left it in the box. That is why I can take the box pic together. Yes! The big box contained the plasma inside! Still 'virgin' from Japan! ). The LCD Panasonic 32” TX-32LX75M is actually ‘loan’ to me by my friend who is a Panasonic dealer while I waited for my Panasonic TH-50PY700H to arrive from Japan ( My friend is dam good in ‘securing’ this deal! I have no choice but to buy from him! He! He! I didn’t pay any deposit at all. All depend on trust. ). Yes! It is ‘Made In Japan’! Oh! This is why I can made comparison of LCD vs Plasma ‘performance’ ( This comparison is a bit unfair as it compared the lowest model against the top model in the Panasonic flat panel TV range. But then I do believed against any LCD the result will be similar. )!

Two back side views of Panasonic TH-50PY700H. Notice the three build in fans at the top. The fan are like those found in computer psu with speed sensor. It is because of these three fans, the Panasonic TH-50PY700H don’t feel very hot at all while in operation. In fact as compare to the LCD Panasonic 32” TX-32LX75M the Panasonic TH-50PY700H is ‘cooler’! Notice that it is rather ‘thin’ in relative to the size of the whole TV, in fact it is about the same thickness as the 32” LCD. No back side view of the LCD as forgot to take.

Overall front view of the Panasonic Th-50PY700H as compare to the Panasonic 32LX75M. Well actually not much of a different except for the much bigger size ( He! He! The Panasonic fellow did say somehow the 50” plasma TV don’t really look big in my living room! I suppose my living room very ‘empty’ wan! Or maybe he want me to buy the 65"! ) . The LCD have no refection at all while the Panasonic TH-50PY700H did show some blur reflection even thought it got anti-reflection glass panel ( only for PY700 model ). But it did look rather classy with a simple shiny piano black bezel. No logo to show that it is Full HD or whatsoever.

Being a fellow with ‘itchy’ hand, I have always preferred ‘complicated’ product. Pic show the various input available on the Panasonic TH-50PY700H & the various setting on each individual input. This is a very good feature as I have always prefer individual setting as setting for Astro input is different for game input & also DVD/BD is different. Oh! U can also set & adjust the input name! A plus feature. This entire feature is not available on the Panasonic 32LX75M. Only a simple pic adjustment.
This is Panasonic TH-50PY700H showing Astro ‘Discovery’ channel. Pic is blur blur as Astro signer is in SD ( Standard Definition ) but some channel show good pic quality like Astro Awani or those News channel. Input is done using s-cable. The pic quality will be even worse if I use composite input ( yellow rca plug ).
This is Panasonic TH-50PY700H showing a screen shot of Transformer. Sorry for the lousy pic quality as I am still using my 3.2mg camera. In real life pic quality is very good, very detail pic! In fact I can see ‘hair’ very clearly ( I can see the 'hairy' hand of the Transformer soldier's wife! ) , even view up very close like 6 inches in front of the screen! This is expected as it is showing pic in 1920X1080 resolution (
So much better than my LCD which is 1680X1050 so I can see ‘hair’ more clearly on my Plasma then on my pc LCD! ) . It can supported 1080p signer.
This is the screen shot of Transformer shown on Panasonic 32LX75M. Now if u seat more than 10 feet away the pic quality is very good! Watching Astro is also very good! Pic seems clear & sharp. But that is because u r seating so ‘far’ away so any missing detailed is not noticed & because of its small screen also. Sit nearer like 8 feet away u will notice that the ‘hair’ is not so clear & it is jagged. Go nearer like just in front of the screen the pic quality is very ‘pixilated’. This is because the resolution supported is only 1366X768 . It can supported 1080i signer only ( If u input in 1080p signer the TV screen will go black! Just off & on it against! It meant it can't support the 1080p.).
Now most of the movies I watch are fast action movie, so I expect Panasonic TH-50PY700H to performed. I am not disappointed. I tested it out on Transformer, AVP2 & Ghost Raider. All action movies with some very dark scene. Pic quality is good! No blurring at all as the plasma pixels reaction time is 0.001ms. Dark scene still can show detail as the contrast ration is 10,000:1 but I think it is the plasma property which is similar to crt TV. The other factor is it has 16bits plasma panel which produce 4,096 equivalent steps of gradation ( this enable smooth pic reproduction, so that shadow is not jagged. ). He! He! Dark scene ‘down there’ is shown clearly! So of cause I can see hair!!! This is also why I want to buy Full HD plasma. Only got two choices, Panasonic or Pioneer ( Other brand only got HD ready. ). Pioneer is out as it is dam expensive! Also because of this I choose 50”. 
In fact any size above 42” ( as it is in wide screen 16:9 format ) will do, so in comparison it is bigger than my old 4:3 34” crt TV. As show on the pic above, even the LCD box is smaller then my 34" TV.
On the Panasonic 32LX75M LCD the same movie is tested. Pic show the Transformer screen. On bright scene & slow action scene the picture quality is good but once it shows action, all become blur blur, LCD pixel reaction time is 0.08ms! This is even worse when it come to dark scene. All black! Now if I adjust the brightness, it all become gray! This is bad! The contrast ration is 7,000:1 but not mention is made on gradation. So with this sort of performance I cannot see any hair ‘down there’!!! All black! So of cause LCD is no suitable for me.
Something extra on Panasonic TH-50PY700H is the SD card reader, located on the lower front right panel. U can view HD pic directly once u poke in a SD card & it will light up a blue light. Since I don't have any SD card, this feature is noted tested.
Apart from this Panasonic TH-50PY700H also got PIP function. Picture In Picture enable u to watch two TV programs ( two TV tuners ) or one input movie & one TV program at the same time as show in the pic above ( As I use Asstro AV1 as the small pic & HDMI1 as the main pic. Didn't show TV channel as it is not even adjusted. ). U can even swap the pic size. A useful feature if u r waiting for some life programs to started.
Another function is PAP. Picture And Picture is similar to PIP except the pic is side by side like two TV joint together. Shown is HDMI1 & Asstro AV1 input side by side.
Panasonic TH-50PY700H can produce SRS TruSurround XT Sound which sound rather good but it is nothing when compared to a 7.1 HT sound system. It sound like Hi-Fi system with good sound field. Well it is much better then Panasonic 32LX75M.
Beside this, there is a 'hold' function! It meant it can freeze & hold any pic being shown on the screen. A very useful function ( some of the screen shot taken is done using this function ). Now if I want to see 'hair' more clearly I don't have to pulse the BD player ( Oh! I forgot to mention that I use Panasonic Blu-Ray Player DMP-BD30. Hemmm maybe because of this, the picture on the Panasonic 32LX75M is also very good! More on this in later post. ).
I am sure people say plasma TV run very hot & consume electricity, but base on my usage, the electricity usage seem reasonable as the electric meter is still going slow slow just like if u r using a refrigerator. Oh! I forgot to mention Panasonic TH-50PY700H as a power saving mode which I switch on.
About heat, the Panasonic 32LX75M is much hotter! U can feel the heat in front of the LCD scene & also the back due to back light be on at all time. When compare to the plasma, no so hot. In fact the back side of the plasma is at normal temperature, only the top part is warm & u can feel the three fans sucking out the warm air ( Poor fellow like me cannot afford to installed air-con in living room. ).
Panasonic Plasma TV TH-50PY700H seems to be more lasting & easier to clean as the front panel is made of glass. Panasonic LCD screen seem to be made of plastic sheet so care must be made so that u don’t scratch it. Hemmmmmmmm with three fans at the back of Th-50PY700H, I might have to DIY fans cleaning maybe one year later.
Life span of Panasonic TH-50PY700H is 100,000 hours against 32LX75M 60,000 hours but then LCD have no ‘ghosting’ ( image retention ) effect. So far from my research Panasonic plasma is no so prone to ‘ghosting’ so that is not so much of a problem for me as I watch lots of ‘action’ movie! Hopefully this 'investment' will last more the 30 years!
I am sure by now my dear readers u r dieing to know how much does this baby cost ( or maybe some of my readers are already dieing of boredom reading this post )? He! He! Well, with one Panasonic TH-50PY700H u can buy about 8 32LX75M!!! Retailed price is RM16,999-00. How much did I pay for it? Well I will reveal the total cost of my HT system in the last post.
Any regretted buying this Panasonic TH-50PY700H? NO! NO! NO! Spend so much where got regret wan ( Just like a married man having a very expensive, sexy & beautiful wife! Sure no regret wan! Sexy wife is a death log when it cum to pokeing also nevermind! )!
Well, actually yes! One small regretted. I am buying this Plasma now with the full knowledge that a new model will be lunch very soon, Panasonic TH-50PY800H ( I can't rejected the deal as my friend has already place the order! That is why I say he is a very good businessman! )! This new model got 24p real cinema playback( Mine don't have. But it is only applicable on BD, so still Ok to me! ), high contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1 ( OMFG! Mine only 10,000:1!!!! So do I get to see 'hair' even more clearly???!!! ), 5,120 gradation steps ( Mine only 4,096 gradation, not too much different. But I am sure can show very clear hair! ), xv colour ( Mine don't have but only applicable to BD so still OK to me. ) & 'over 900 lines moving picture resolution with 480hz sub-field drive' ( Mine don't have.Only mention got sub-field. I have no idea what this POKE is about but it sound impressive! ). Plus free 5-years warranty! This is what my Panasonic TH-50PY700H 'loss' out to the new Panasonic TH-50PY800H!
Ok! Now 'sour gape' a bit. I am a normal guy lah so let see what the new Panasonic Th-50PY800H don't have. No SRS TruSurround XT Sound. No PIP.One TV tuner only. Styling is now more simple. No more thin speaker strip by the side. No more four speaker. Audio power reduce to 20w from 31w. And the new Panasonic TH-50PY800H is lighter by 11kg!!! Now where is the weight reduction? Don't tell me the plasma panel inside is now made of plastic ( Now if the plasma panel is really made of plastic then the 'old' Panasonic TH-50PY700H is a much value buy! Plastic will not last long & subject to coloration. )! Oh! I am sure the new Panasonic TH-50PY800H don't have any built in fans ( Panasonic dealer can cumfirm or not? ).
And what happen if the new Panasonic TH-50PY800H retailed for just RM12,999-00???!!! I will be very very 'tulan' & I might just pucked off my hair 'down there' in frustration!!! Any Panasonic personnel among my dear readers? Any cumfirmation on the price is appreciated ( I don't like to pucked my 'hair' down there! Very painful wan! ) & I hope Panasonic don't mind my 'horny' review of its product!
Well I hope my ‘review’ is not too boring, next on the manual is the
sound system & finally the
HT source.