This has to be the best LCD TV I have seen

I would like to begin my review by pointing out the following.

Upon switching back to normal TV, to my horror I could see on the dark scenes of the program I was watching the speedometer from the Formula 1 racing game, I thought to myself it will probably be a temporary thing and give it a day and it will be gone, but it was not, so that’s what made me take the Plasma TV back and get the Panasonic TX-32 LXD700 LCD TV instead which IMO is a FAR FAR BETTER TV in every respect to the Plasma. It astonishes me that Plasma TV's can still suffer from image burn and yet manufacturers still manufacture them knowing this, it is quite normal now to watch TV that have static channel logo's and also for households to have games consoles, so why do manufacturers still make Plasma TV's, the only reason I can see is that Plasma TV's are available in bigger sizes at present than LCD, but I think when LCD TV's can be made at the same size as Plasma TV's, then I think that the Plasma TV's days are numbered.

Firstly, the Panasonic TX-32 LXD700 is Panasonic's top of the range LCD TV, it is finished in a beautiful looking shiny black finish and I can report that the Panasonic TX-32 LXD700 performs as good as it looks, the TV comes on a pedestal stand which allows you to turn the TV left or right approximately 15 degrees. The first time you switch the TV on it will ask you if you want to auto tune all the available TV stations in your area, this includes analogue stations and also DVB (free view) stations as well, as the Panasonic TX-32 LXD700 has an inbuilt DVB (free view) tuner, there is also a slot on the back of the TV which allows you to insert a COMMON INTERFACE MODULE, and this in turn allows you to be able to watch paid for DVB channels upon a subscription to these channels. Also the first time the TV is switched on, you have the choice to enter your name/address/post code, these are protected by your own chosen pin number, this allows the police in the event of you TV been stolen and recovered, to be able to trace the owner of the TV.

3 HDMI sockets, which is unusual as most High Definition (HD) TV's have just 2, HDMI is the new type of connection to allow high definition pictures to be shown on the Panasonic TX-32 LXD700. Basically HDMI is the new HD form of the scart connection. Some but not all relatively new DVD players/recorders can sometimes have an HDMI connection, if an HDMI lead is used and it is connected to an HD TV, it will UPSCALE the picture to near high definition (HD) quality, I have done this with my DVD recorder and can inform you that it does make QUITE A BIG difference to the picture quality, the picture IS MUCH SHARPER than before.

PC: This allows the Panasonic TX-32 LXD700 to be connected to a PC and be used as a monitor.

COMPONENT: This allows connection to a DVD player for high quality pictures (BUT NOT AS HIGH A QUALITY AS HDMI CONNECTION WOULD GIVE)

Headphone socket: This allows you to listen to TV via headphones so as not to disturb others.

On the front of the TV, hidden under a flap is a SD card slot, which allows you to insert an SD memory card from a digital camera and allows you to see your pictures in HIGH DEFINITION, the quality is TRULY amazing. I particularly found the SD card slot a very useful addition.

The menus of the Panasonic TX-32 LXD700 are very clear to understand and the remote control layout is very clear as well. Menus on the Panasonic TX-32 LXD700 allow the following,

Setup menu: In here you can manual tune DVB and or analogue TV channels, off timer; this will automatically turn off the TV after either 15/30/45/60/75/90 minutes, which is handy if you have the Panasonic TX-32 LXD700 in a bedroom for example.

I have used the TV for around 10 days now and I have found the TV VERY VERY easy to use. The picture quality is absolutely excellent, I have Sky TV and not the Sky HD and the picture quality is superb and easily beats the Plasma TV that I previously had by a long way. My Sky TV is connected to the TV via a scart connection. I also have a Play station 3 connected to my Panasonic TX-32 LXD700 via a HDMI lead, and the picture jumps out at you, the image is in high definition and is incredible sharp and again easily beats the Plasma TV that I previously had. I also have connected to my Panasonic TX-32 LXD700 a Panasonic DMR-EX85 DVD recorder, I have this connected via an HDMI lead and this in turn UPSCALES the picture from the DMR-EX85 to near high definition quality. The picture quality from the inbuilt free view is also excellent as well, I will also add that the inbuilt free view has the a TV listings guide built in so that you will be able to see what is on from now and until 7 days in advance.

Another problem that can sometimes be had with LCD TV's is that blacks are not shown as true black, instead these are show as a dark Grey, this is due to LCD TV's using a back light, but with the Panasonic TX-32 LXD700, this has the INTELLIGENT SCENE CONTROLLER, this means that the Panasonic TX-32 LXD700 automatically adjusts the back light brightness so that in turn can show black as black and not has dark Grey. Sometimes as well with LCD TV's, if you sit to the right or left of the TV, the picture can suffer from either whiteout or blackout, this basically means that the picture will disappear and go either black or white, but with the Panasonic TX-32 LXD700 the picture can be viewed to a very wide 178 degree angle, horizontally or vertically. It will be almost unheard of for someone to need to watch the TV past this angle as well. The contrast ratio (which basically means the difference in shades of colour/contrast that the TV can show) is 8500 to 1, with a lot of other LCD TV’s the contrast ratio is sometimes only 3000 to 1 or 4500 to 1 or 5000 to 1, so you can start to get an idea as to what the colour/contrast range/image quality will be like on the Panasonic TX-32 LXD700.