720p... I'll pass. You'll want 1080p for a 50" tele.

mrnothanks said:roemer21 said:720p... I'll pass. You'll want 1080p for a 50" tele.

Could you take your 1080 garbage and take it to a thread where someone cares?

I care. It was the first thing I thought of when I saw the thread title. Makes a difference in what you want to pay.

kjl1977 said:mrnothanks said:roemer21 said:720p... I'll pass. You'll want 1080p for a 50" tele.

Could you take your 1080 garbage and take it to a thread where someone cares?

I care. It was the first thing I thought of when I saw the thread title. Makes a difference in what you want to pay.

I guess I was assuming that people would not be so naive to think that this would be a 1080p for $809. LOL. This TV gets outstanding reviews and is a great buy if you haven't been 1080p brainwashed.

I bought the Costco version of this for $840. It is awesome. Needs some tweaking out of the box, but what doesn't?

SiliconJon said:I just got an 8% CashBack offer from Bing searching for Craftsman, bringing it down to $744.28 - frickin' nice.

Wow! I did too! That does it, I'm pulling the trigger on this one. Thanks!

(PS, you can't BING + FatCash, you have to pick just one... right?)

PS, I would like to mention that if you use your Discover Card at department stores (such as Sears) through June Discover will give you an additional 5% back.

"Discover Card usually pays 1% Cash Back on normal purchases. Every quarter Discover offer 5% Cash Back on selected purchases. For 2009 2nd quarter (April 1, 2009-June 30, 2009), Discover Card offer 5% on Home Improvement Stores, Department Stores and Clothing Clothes."

Up to $400 total price. So that is another $20 off ($400 - %5 = $20).

Brings the total down to $724 for this TV.

roemer21 said:720p... I'll pass. You'll want 1080p for a 50" tele.

PLEASE DON'T TELL ME WHAT I WANT!

I have a 50" Panasonic 720p plasma and my parents listened to an idiot and bought a "full HD" LCD 42". My television has a better HD picture than theirs. Please stick to the facts - is this a good deal or not. All of this thread crapping over 1080 vs 720 is getting old. If you want, go do the research and make your own decision, but don't try to make my decision for me. If you wanna spend the extra $$$ on 1080p, good for you. I'm not gonna tell you that you're an idiot and what you really need, like you did to me. Free will at work is great, but my wallet is much fatter than yours and my television works great with an A+ picture.

Green OP, Good Deal!

Way too much nastiness on this thread . . . and not enough information.

Look, if you want to use this as a TV you're gonna end up with a watermelon smile and get a great deal with this Panny TV. It's a PLASMA for goodness sake. I would buy this as a TV in a New York second. It is fantastic!!

OK, how about for movies?

The answer is: "it depends".

If you're gonna feed this with your Blu-Ray player, or even an old HD DVD player, at 1080p or at 1080p/24, you might want to think twice. This set is a 60Hz set, perfect for TV, but not ideal for 1080p/24.

But if your focus is mainly TV, and if you only watch SD movies occasionally, this is a winner!!

c-net review - people who know what they are talking about

c-net tester states: "Unlike nearly every large-screen flat-panel HDTV on the market today, the Panasonic TC-P50X1 does not have 1080p native resolution (1920x1080 pixels). Instead, its pixel array is 1,366x768, aka 720p resolution. We didn't really miss the extra pixels, however, and as usual found it difficult to tell the difference between the TC-P50X1 and higher-resolution displays."

I have 2007's version of this television and have it hooked to a 1080p satellite service and I also have a blu-ray player. My only complaint is that the sound isn't as rich as it could be, which is a common complaint with all televisions.

In conclusion, this isn't the best television on the market, but for the average person who isn't trying to build a home theater, it is the best bang for your buck and should be a pretty darn good television. Go look at one in the store before you buy to see if that faint diagonal line issue bothers you.

Oh, and BTW, this is advertised as a 600 Hz display (something new for a 720p Panny). What does this mean? Well......

Panasonic subdivides their plasma display panels into 10 sub-fields. Each sub-field is refreshed at a 60 Hz rate. 10 sub-fields refreshed at 60 Hz (10 x 60 = 600) produces a 600 Hz sub-field drive figure.

Is a 600 Hz sub-field drive better for fast motion? NO. It neither helps nor hurts fast motion on a plasma display panel. Plasma pixels switch at 1 micro-second; thousands of times faster than the fastest LCD response time. Because of this speed difference, a plasma TV operates different than a LCD TV and, therefore, does not produce the motion blur and jitter produced by a LCD display panel. Plasma TVs do NOT need 120 Hz refresh rates to compensate for these motion artifacts because they do not produce these motion artifacts in the first place.