Panasonic TX28PL10 > Reviews (4)

How goes it, that adage? A dog is a man’s best friend? Who on earth made that one up? For, in truth, a dog may well be a woman’s best friend, and if you lived in the house of the dave27 family, you would recognise this immediately, with Mrs D’s appalling obsession for our dog’s welfare sending poor old dave27 out in all sorts of weather to give the wretched creature its daily exercise. Irrelevant though this may be to the matter in hand, the snow and the wind and the rain will ravage my senses and my physical well being to their utmost pleasure as long as our Poppy gets its walk, and IT’S JUST GOT TO STOP…

Anyway, the point of all this raving, ranting interlude is that the place of the canine race in the affections of the male of the species has been firmly supplanted in this last thirty years by one other grasping, greedy creature, and that is the one eyed monster who sits in the corner of the room, sucking the life out of its theoretical master. You see in these days of high pressure, high intensity, high tech high life, the television set has actually become man’s real best friend.

True enough, it’s a selfish, leeching brute, sucking the life and the energy out of its couch potato of an owner, but the modern man has come to rely rather more than is healthy for his well being upon the Cyclops.

Just think about the last time your telly suffered from an operating problem, and how badly your life was affected by its absence from operational Nirvana. I know in my case the experience was traumatic, and called into question the entire validity of my married life.

Anyway, bleary eyed, rambling, incoherent prelude over, let us embark upon the material for this evening.

Panasonic make great television sets. Widescreen TV’s are the new black. Television these days is one of the more indispensable modern day conveniences. Ergo, the Panasonic TX28PL10, a triumph of modern day design and engineering, a veritable beast which will suck the life out of you if you let it.

Boring stuff first, chaps. Here are the best deals I’ve come across in terms of this particular model.

Robertsons - http://www.robertsons-online.co.uk/acata​log/Robertsons_Online_28__Widescreen_39.​html - a snip at 605 notes, including VAT and delivery

Appliance Direct - http://www.appliance-direct.co.uk/details.asp?cat=Television&prid=8​19 - £599.95, free delivery within 2 working days

Our chums at Comet - http://www.comet.co.uk/comet/html/cache/​768527.html - even more thrilling at £585.99, while they also promise 6 months interest free option 0% or 29.9% APR, Standard Delivery Charge £11.95 and availability of 2-5 days.

Now, you can’t really say much fairer than that and undoubtedly 600 notes or so is a pretty reasonable price these days for the ultimate in home TV, and certainly the Panasonic TX28PL10 is a pretty wonderful invention.

This set is a 28 inch widescreen television set with the pretty inescapable (these days) Nicam stereo, which I have to admit I’ve never actually found to be that valuable a feature.

Of course, it’s nice to have the ultimate development at you finger tips in order to guarantee your place in the manly pecking order, but that’s all this feature really brings. Nicam stereo, neat touch, but its volume, tone and ambience which have greater relevance (in my own humble opinion, of course).

The rest of the techno babble is packed with other such meaningless fripperies which make the brochure look appealing and makes the male ego swell with pride – dig this.
Quintrix F Flat CRT, 100Hz Super Digital Scan, NICAM, Open Dome Acoustic Feedback Sound, Modern Clean Design, User Friendly Remote Control, Help Menu and Graphic OSD, matching cabinet stand with one shelf supplied
Visible screen - Screen sizes vary from 49 to 88cm, pure flat screens reduce distortion
Reception – Analogue
Picture quality - Double the standard scanning rate - gives a high quality "flicker free" picture

Yeah, I know all this is so much frippery, but it’s the specification, brochures, packaging and all round hype which makes such modern gadgets as this, and you can’t go through the review without experiencing the sharp language of the modern day television.

Suffice to say in the reality of these things, is that this Panasonic TV is a high quality, high spec, best of breed, of a type (widescreen) which will be pretty damn unmanageable-without in the very near future, as the media monopolists of BSkyB send their insidious programming into our homes.

I love Panasonic televisions, and the TX28PL10 is one of the best they manufacture. It has a good image and sound with all the necessary trimmings and it will do your heart good to lug the monster into your sitting room.

Come on, guys, fork out and enjoy.