Price Paid:  $289.00 from Best Buy

Summary:
This TV has a great 3D quality to the picture. The picture gets better after running it for a week. Right out of the box it seems to have some grain. I thought this odd because the demo at Best Buy did not. Give it some time time and everything gets very sharp much like HDTV.The sound is a little thin but I play it through my A/V receiver using stereo interconnects from the audio output. A setting allows muting of the onboard speakers so you dont have to listen to them. I am thoroughly pleased with this product and dont know what else for the money is this good.

Strengths:
Sharp 3D image

Weaknesses:
Lousy sound

Similar Products Used:
Samsung

Price Paid:  $329.00 from Circuit City

Summary:
I looked at quite a few Tv sets in the stores and thought that this panasonic had the best picture. However when I got it home there was a lot of noise on RF input line and this was from a generally clean signal from a digital cable box. I was replacing an RCA Home theater 27" set that had a very clean picture with this input. I also noticed that no matter how I set up the video setting the blacks were too black. Even though the S-video and the component inputs cleaned up the noise problems the picture still looked grainy. I''m returning this set only after 5 days.

Strengths:
Component, S-video and A-V inputs. Price.

Weaknesses:
Noisy RF channel, grainy overall picture and no detail in the blacks.

Similar Products Used:
27" RCA Home Theater Set. 26" Mitsubishi. 20" RCA.

Price Paid:  $299.00 from Boscovs

Summary:
This T.V. seems like a very good value. I see none of the complaints of a slanted picture in mine. A match perfect match for my XBOX at a price I can afford.

Strengths:
When matched with my XBOX through S-VIDEO, the picture is more clear than expected. Next best thing to an HD T.V.

Weaknesses:
Sound seemed a bit weak. Thank God for Dolby Digital.

Similar Products Used:
Sharp 19", about 4 years old. An obviosly unbelievable difference.

Price Paid:  $329.00 from Fry''s

Summary:
Have had this TV for 2 week''s and I must say it is an excellent TV for the price. After using the tweak''s Wade F. suggested the true nature of this TV came out. If this TV isn''t set-up right the picture quality isn''t good. Watching DVD movie''s is just incredible. The picture is sharp and clean, the color''s are vibrant. As far as Cable is concerned some channel''s are better than other''s which is true no matter which TV you use. On the down side the sound could be better but that''s OK because I use my A/V receiver and the remote button''s seem to need more pressure pushed on them than other remote''s.

Strengths:
Great picture, component, S-video and composite input''s

Weaknesses:
Sound and remote

Price Paid:  $329.00 from Circuit City

Summary:
Well, let me first say that this TV is not that good out of the box. The colors bleed, it's overly sharp, and it has almost no definition at all. I sat in the store with a friend of mine to help me with the color settings (I'm red/green color blind) because both of us easily recognized that CC had butchered the settings for their demo model. We sat around and played with it until we got it fixed as well as we could get it and then compared the models. After about an hour of work, the Panasonic, even with "from-the-hip" settings clearly looked better than the Sony's, Philips, and ProScan's (which, by the way, we calibrated as best we could as well).

That said, the very first thing I did when I brought this sucker home was to set up a before/after analysis using a very color-intensive DVD, "The Fifth Element", which uses many different shades of red, blue, green, etc. Just as I had expected, the look made me shudder from uncalibrated settings. So, I popped in my Video Essentials DVD and set it up right.

Wow.

That made all the difference in the world. Once the Panasonic was set up correctly, it looked like a TV that would cost much more. I haven't regretted my purchase since.

By the way, for those of you who don't have a DVD player or access to the Video Essentials DVD (or you're just lazy, hehe), I've taken the liberty of posting the settings below, for all three video modes.

Component: Color 24
Tint 17
Brightness 47
Picture 20
Sharpness 0 (not a typo, it's really 0)

S-Video: Color 23
Tint 37
Brightness 36
Picture 17
Sharpness 0

RCA: Color 17
Tint 35
Brightness 33
Picture 13
Sharpness 0

Hope this helps you guys!

Strengths:
Component video, s-video, 3 sets of RCA jacks
Awesome detail, MUST be calibrated though -- read below

Weaknesses:
Try carrying this bad boy up four flights of stairs and you'll see what I mean =)

Similar Products Used:
Panasonic SuperFlat 32", Sony Trinitron 20"