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Introduction
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01.Tour & Design
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02.Performance Features
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03.3D
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04.Connectivity & Media
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05.Controls, Menu & Remote
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06.Conclusion
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07.Series Comparision
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08.Specs
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09.Comments
Panasonic Viera TC-P65VT50
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Controls, Menu & RemoteConnectivity & Media
Audio & Video Ports
The ports on the Panasonic Viera TC-P65VT50 in this photo are not certain to be the same as those on the final production models, but they’ll probably look similar Here, they’re arranged in an L-shape. Because the TV’s chassis is so slim, the ports stick out at odd angles. It can be hard to keep the cables hidden when they’re in this shape because the cables are frequently thick and jut out from the side.
Ports on the Panasonic Viera TC-P65VT50 we saw at the show include four HDMIs, one shared component/composite AV input, VGA input, cable/antenna input, digital audio output, ethernet, three USBs, and an SD card slot.
Internet & Other Media
Panasonic is definitely trailing the pack in Smart TV platforms. For the last two years, most of the major manufacturers have been making their streaming content and internet features faster, more robust, and more dynamic. In that same time, Panasonic has gained virtually no ground, making only the most rudimentary upgrades to its platform, known as Viera Cast.
The biggest problem with Viera Cast, to date, has been the sheer amount of time it takes to navigate. In the photo above you can see how they arrange their apps, in a grid-view. It’s far less efficient that what Samsung, LG, or even Sony is doing, because if you want an option that’s not on the first page, it takes an interminably long time to load the second page. For 2012, the interface remains largely unchanged, though they added a cascading view, seen in the screenshot below.
Our second complaint about Viera Cast has been the lag time. The previous year’s TVs were too slow. Rather than tricking out their new 2012 TVs with a faster processor, Panasonic is going to transfer all that work to cloud processing. On the surface, that sounds great. You’ll have hundreds of computers at your beck and call to do the processing. But in reality, that means that your processing speed is throttled by your internet connection speed.
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