Customer Reviews
LOVE IT! 
2008-05-09
This is my first plasma TV and I love it! The only thing that I noticed is that the picture is not very clear when you get too close. I have not contacted my cable company to get the HDTV cable box so I am hoping that it will change the clarity once that is installed. From researching, reviews, ordering, and delivery.....everything was top notch and I would recommend Amazon.com as well as this TV to anyone looking for a good buy for a great product.
Very good value for money 2008-05-09
For a small living room this is a perfect TV. 720p is very clear for 42'', doesn't really feel the need for 1080.
Following Front connections/slots are convinient
1. SD card slot to view camera pictures, what a pleasure!
2. S-Video right in the front, to watch youtube & online videos
3. One HDMI
4. Regular Video/Audio(L/R) slot
There are more HDMI/Video/connections available from the back side.
The picture quality is great!
Audio is good, it could have been better, but you can attach external audio system.
Amazon's price is the BIG PLUS + FREE SHIPPING to home. The shipping was on time and without any trouble. I was little skeptical, but everything went well, as expected.
Overall it was a great deal!!
fantastic experience 
2008-05-07
wow...i couldn't have asked for a better shopping experience. i ordered my panasonic plasma tv on friday may 2 and received it today, may 7. the product wasn't supposed to arrive for a few more days. not only was the tv at a great price, the shipping was fantastic. my tv came in the original box which was packaged with giant bubble wrap inside a larger box. no damage to either box. the tv was in perfect condition as noted and it took me 10 minutes to hook up and start watching...in fact, my kids are playing wii on it as i type. i ordered it through butterfly photo and, although some people have given butterfly poor reviews, let me tell you that things couldn't have gone more smoothly....some people get worried about getting a big tv through the internet and delivered, i was skeptical as well, but no need to worry.....i highly recommend butterflyphoto and amazon for any purchase no matter how large or small.
Great TV for about 1K 2008-05-03
First, I can't believe I've bought the hype that it's a good deal to buy a 42-inch TV for 1K (12/2007), even if the prices have stayed about the same.
This TV has a great picture, colors are vivid and blacks are black. We put this one in our bedroom. It's borderline too large for our bedroom. It's close to looking like we have a bed in our TV room. This may be a bit of my envy showing. This TV is far better than my living room TV and even though I'd like a slightly larger set for the living room, this set is so much better than what I currently have. The colors are just so much more vivid. I moved my Xbox back to play Bioshock. The picture was stunning.
The only complaint I have is the sound. It has been tough to manage it, especially after my wife falls asleep. I feel like Goldilocks. The sound is either too loud or too quiet, but never just right.
Digital shows look good, HD shows shine. Just remember if you are watching shows not shown in HD, you lost a lot of the TV screen. Non-HD shows have bars on each side that are approximately 4/5 inches wide. Some shows add additional bars on top and bottom. What once was a 42-inch screen is now a lot smaller. This is what sold me to upgrade to HD programing.
And to help you avoid the dumb, blank look I gave our Comcast representative, HD programing is not digital and it is an upgrade. Digital means nothing to me. It looks like the vast majority of programs are now digital, most are not shown in HD. HD is when the entire screen on the new wide TVs is filled. All of the major channels' prime time shows are shown in HD. There are now two channels for most network and many cable channels, one in digital and one in HD. Sometimes the shows are different, much to the delight of my wife. The food network has two channels showing different programing, especially if the one on the main channel is not available in HD.
But all of this new wide-screen real estate comes at a cost. Comcast (this is my TV provider) charges additional dollars to access HD programing, about $20 more per month. I can't tell you how it added up to $20. I remember HD added about $7, the two boxes added more (Yes, each TV requires a box. By then my head was spinning and I wanted out.
The picture is great. Is it worth $240 to watch Denny Crane in HD?
If you spent a grand or a lot more for a new wide format TV why wouldn't you pay for HD? If money is an issue and you don't care if Conan's late night head is enormously large, why not buy a letterbox set? Why look at five inch stripes on both sides of the set without any hope to use the entire screen? Our neighbor just bought a 30ish-inch digital set for about have the price, which is about the screen size of my 42-inch TV after subtracting out the stripes.
But, for those wishing to take the plunge, this is a great TV.
great product, great price 2008-05-02
High quality product with a great price as well. Amazon made this purchase a "no-brainer". Go for it, you won't be disappointed.
Best TV Ever 2008-04-17
42" widescreen HDTV (16:9 aspect ratio) * built-in digital (ATSC) and analog (NTSC) tuners for over-the-air TV broadcasts (antenna required) *
Great TV Bad Shipping 
2008-04-17
Just go to the store and buy this! We all shop on Amazon because we want to save money. However, Amazon is using a shipping company called CEVA Logistics that ONLY delivers on weekdays. That's right, YOU WILL HAVE TO TAKE OFF WORK AND WAIT 4 HOURS FOR DELIVERY!!! Ask yourself, are you saving any money now?
Made a call to Amazon, no one cares, not even managers.
Panasonic 42" plasma 2008-04-17
We are very happy with the TV. Great picture and good price.
We also had trouble getting it delivered with "the white glove" delivery. It sat in the warehouse in our town for over a week. I finally got a person to talk to after leaving voice mail for a week, and they said they had a wrong number for our phone and couldn't get in touch with us.
They delivered the TV the next day. The man brought it in and put it on the stand and took the box away. He was pretty rude.
Impressive... 2008-04-16
I spent a few months reviewing plasmas and lcd's both in the big box stores and online. I watch a lot of sports, and the lcd's still have the motion blurring problem (except the expensive new ones). For me, that narrowed it down to the plasmas. Like others have said, the Panasonic's stood out from the rest of the plasma's (except for Pioneers, but they are almost double the cost). In terms of 1080 and 720 plasmas, I could not tell a difference between the two in 42". Maybe a little in the larger sets, but not in this size. Not worth the extra cost IMHO. So, I finally took the plunge on Panasonic's 720 42" when the price dropped below $1000, no tax, free shipping. A great deal for a TV that has been on the market for less than 2 months.
Delivery on the TV was fast (about 5 days early). They called a day ahead and delivered it within 1/2 hour of their estimated arrival. They made sure that the TV worked, and offered to take away all the packaging material. A+.
The TV was a snap to set up--10 minutes. The first thing that I noticed was that the color contrast is excellent, even on SD- much better then our 6-year-old Toshiba 27" tube TV. The clarity varies by station- a function of the channels, not the TV. SD = A-
The picture quality really excels while playing DVDs through component video. Deep rich blacks, vivid colors. The "Planet Earth" series looks incredible. We have not hooked it up to HD yet, but I'm sure it will be even better. A+.
A nice feature is that the TV remembers your settings for each video input. I.e.--we programmed a different color contrast for broadcast TV and DVDs and it stores each separately. There are more than enough ways to adjust picture quality to really fine tune it.
The audio is better than other sets, but not great. We don't use it though, since the TV is hooked up through a 5.1 receiver.
Overall, I am very happy with my purchase, both the TV and Amazon's delivery service. Definitely would buy it again.
FOLLOW UP: I just got HD, and it is even better than I could have imagined. I don't even like NBA basketball, but I found myself glued to the playoff game just to see the clarity. UFC was almost TOO clear for comfort. The only problem-- I can't go back to SD now...
panasonic plasma tv 2008-04-15
This is a great product! what was even greater was the service that amazon provided, Thanks for the great service! This tv is awesome! Great picture good sound with surround sound! panasonic makes a great plasma tv! keep up the good work!
