What's the difference between these two plasma's?

uncle_sam_ie · 07-07-2007 9:24am #1

What's the difference between these two sets, the Panasonic TH42PZ700 and the TH42PY700. Both do 1920×1080 (full HD). Komplette.ie is selling the PY and it's cheaper then what I can get the PZ for. I can't find any review in english for the TH42PY700. And also, will the TH42PY700 work ok in Ireland?
Thanks

Snake Plisken · 07-07-2007 11:16am

No actually the more expensive model is the one that does the full 1080p as far as I can see the cheaper model can handle the 1080p signal but then downconverts it to 768, I'd double check the more expensive one to make sure that it can handle 1080p 24fps before I'd buy to future proof and avoid the annoying judder effect on blu-ray and HD-DVD.

Snake

cheaper here then Komplett http://www.technikdirekt.de/main/en/lcd-plasma-tv/plasma-tv/168980/-/Article.html?

uncle_sam_ie · 07-07-2007 3:34pm

The TH-42PY700 does do full HD. http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=337232

Snake Plisken · 07-07-2007 4:02pm

yes it does sorry thought you were comparing the cheaper 700 listed on Komplett, downloaded the manuals to have a look and only difference between the PY and PZ is that the PY has a DVB tuner built in for Freeview the PZ doesn't, both do full 1080p native.

Snake

uncle_sam_ie · 07-07-2007 4:19pm

Thanks for that Snake. My only problem now is that they're out of stock. Would you have any idea what the shipping cost usually is? And, Have you bought from TECHIKdirekt.de? They look good and they are cheaper.:)

Snake Plisken · 07-07-2007 4:52pm

Yes I bought my PV7142" from them its 80 Euros shipping which isn't bad, the set comes shrink wrapped on a pallet and arrived in perfect condition, also in the week that I bought it I found a cheaper site and they gave me a 150euros back on my card, good company to deal with.

Snake

uncle_sam_ie · 07-07-2007 5:51pm

Do you think I should go with the PZ(now that I found one in my price range)? I'm using SkyHD so don't really need the DVB do I.

Snake Plisken · 07-07-2007 6:31pm

uncle_sam_ie wrote:

Do you think I should go with the PZ(now that I found one in my price range)? I'm using SkyHD so don't really need the DVB do I.

Its up to you, if your in the dublin area they are running DVB-T tests and this set will pick those channels up, but as you have a skyhd, you should be ok.

Snake

uncle_sam_ie · 07-07-2007 7:01pm

No, I'm in County Cork and we only just got broadband so I can't see DVB coming anytime soon. Sorry to ask soooo many questions, but I've herd that a full HD set will make SD look worse then if were shown on a lower res HD set. Is that true?
Hey thanks again for the link.

Snake Plisken · 07-07-2007 9:36pm

of the two screen technologies SD looks a lot closer to a crt picture then a LCD. So if you have a decent cable service or decent TV signal then it should be fine, but if you have a snowy picture then when blown up to 42" it will look worse, the pannys have PNR in them and that can improve the picture, so I really didn't notice any difference, on full 1080 sets I can't see how it would look worse on them, the only 1080 sets at the moment have all been LCD, so that comment might be directed towards LCD. So wouldn't worry about it.

Snake

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