Sharp 3D image

Lousy sound

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.

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Samsung

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

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

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.

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27" RCA Home Theater Set. 26" Mitsubishi. 20" RCA.

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

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

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.

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Sharp 19", about 4 years old. An obviosly unbelievable difference.

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

Sound and remote

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.

video connections,price.

not very good controller

only had it for a little while but love it so far picture looks great with cable,dvd or gaming console. sound is great. wish controller was better.

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magnavox

Rich color, great contrast, component video-in, S-video-in

Basic picture geometry problems and no way to fix them.

In the store, I was impressed at the richness of the picture quality of this Panasonic CT-27D11, especially compared to other TVs in (and even above) this price range. Now that I've had a week to play with the set, I am bothered by several problems.

First: the picture tilts downward to the left by several degrees. This is VERY obvious when watching a letterboxed show or movie, and also with news tickers.

Second: I am also experiencing the pin cushion problem, but really this is only noticeable upon watching a DVD and reducing the zoom to to a smaller size -- you can then see how the picture bows slightly like this: ) ( .

Third: The picture SIGNIFICANTLY overscans the viewing area. Again, this is VERY obvious when you reduce the zoom on a letterboxed DVD and see how much image is STILL being cut off on the left and right. It's also obvious on a DVD set to the standard TV ratio. When reduced, it becomes apparent that you are losing picture on all four sides of the TV screen.

I have not yet decided if I will return this TV for another model. It is a real shame that there are no controls to fix these basic picture geometry issues, as these are standard controls on any computer monitor, and this would be the ONLY reason I would consider returning this otherwise excellent TV.

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n/a

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

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

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!

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Sound is good, Digital Cable works well with TV, AI Controls do not work with using the Inputs on the TV though. overall a great buy.

panablack screen, headphone jack,component and s video input
price

slanted picture, patches of discoloration, geometry problem giving me the bow tie effect, extreme brightness

As I've stated, this tv had alot of problems. Luckily, I purchased it at sears as they have in home service. My first
call was to fix the slanted picture-that took about fifteen
minutes.Then I noticed patches of discoloration-the repairman came out and was able to fix that also. He couldn't do much about the "bow tie effect" and said that as
long as I could get a good picture, not to worry about the brightness. I had to turn it way down or the colors looked washed out. Overall, I am quite satisfied with the tv and the service.
The tv was a floor model (not a demo) which would explain the price.

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Lots of inputs, options and good sound.

Horrible picture

I got the Panasonic CT-27D11 today.
The picture in the store seemed as good as most other sets, but this one had a head phone jack which I really wanted.
I was very disappointed with the quality of the picture once I hooked it up to my cable service. The picture is extremely visually noisy. Because of the extreme noise the picture is not sharp.
Also, the picture is very dark and if I try to brighten it the picture it tends to wash out. Anything black has no deffinition. A dark shaddow, black hair, black dress or black suit are just a black silhoeuette with no interior detail visible.
I plan to return the television tomorrow.