Panasonic TX-L32X15 32-inch VIERA LCD TV

Panasonic TX-L32X15 32-inch Widescreen HD Ready LCD TV with Freeview
Awards – Which?, Best Buy, July 2009

Price: £454.99
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Overview

VIERA HD Ready LCD Television
100Hz Intelligent Frame Creation
Wide Viewing Angle with IPS Alpha Panel
Smart Networking with VIERA Link
V-Audio Surround

Panasonic TX-L32X15 – Manufacturer Description

HD Ready LCD TV with Wide Viewing Angle, Superb Moving Picture Quality and Advanced Networking Capabilities

The wide 178° viewing angle* ensures clear images even when viewed from an angle. The backlight’s wide transmission aperture enhances the contrast between light and dark, and improves motion-image response. * Measured at an angle where the contrast ratio is 10:1 or higher.

Enjoy realistic starlit skies right in your living room. Improvements in panel contrast and scene-adaptive contrast gamma correction have achieved a high contrast ratio of 40,000:1. The backlight tuning area is also expanded to achieve deeper blacks.

VIERA Link allows interconnected operation of various AV devices using only the VIERA remote control, by simply connecting the devices to each other by an HDMI cable. VIERA Link performance has been further enhanced with LUMIX digital camera connection. By connecting a new LUMIX camera that has an HDMI output terminal to VIERA, you can use the VIERA remote to control the playback of images stored on the camera.

It’s easy to view full-HD images with the SD card slot. Watch and show your photos and motion images right after you take them. Simply insert an SD Memory card into VIERA to display photos and full-HD videos on the large screen. You can also choose from among 3 types of background music and 4 display effects.

V-Audio Surround gives depth-sound-image effect by early-reflection data based on actual room measurement, that is generated from digital signal processor.

Panasonic TX-L32X15 – Customers Reviews

“Having looked and researched older models and spent hours looking around the web, we went for this LCD and very pleased we did. It ticks all the right boxes in terms of build quality and offers 100hz which for us was important for sports and fast moving action shots.

We did think about going for full 1080 HD but having looked into it decided to go for HD ready as apart from Blue-ray little else is actually transmitted in 1080 and for a screen of this size it was not deemed necessary. It goes beyond last years award winning models with some changes to the ability to alter settings and Pro 4 instead of Pro3 processor. Having seen this and last years side by side there is a some small improvements to be seen.

We managed in the end to get it from a Panasonic shop with a free 5 year warranty, we paid a little more than the cheapest net prices without such a warranty.

Panasonic is quality that is easy to detect and we are very pleased and think is a great all round points scorer that deserves 5 stars.”
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“We put a lot of thought into which make and which size of TV we wanted to buy. This one (TX-L32X15) seemed to offer best value for money. Our area (Borders, we have moved house) went digital first, so we have been working with a HDD box and an ancient tube set up to now. The change in quality was dramatic. It is great to get a TV which receives freeview programmes direct. The picture quality is very good. The image is sharp and the colours are well saturated. We just used the default settings to begin with and we only needed to turn the brightness up a wee bit. I had read some doubts expressed about the audio quality of this model, but it is fine for us. We have a large room and at last I can read the text.

If I had one problem with it, it is the fact that there are advertisements on the programme guide which makes it very difficult for me to use it. I cannot use browsers with flash and so forth as it triggers migraines, so to find moving/flashing advertisements on the programme guide is a real pain for me. As far as I can see you cannot turn the ads off. But I had read about this in advance, and I still bought the set as it is not essential to rely on the guide. I just use the guide on the black box recorder, which sort of defeats the object of buying a TV with a guide. But, that is a detail and it does not affect the picture or sound on the TV. Most people would have no problem with it, but then most people never got knocked down and therefore never banged their heads on the road.

It is brilliant. I am very pleased with it.”
J.S. Edgar

“I am a CRT fan, believing that the picture on LCD sets did not come up to the standard of a good CRT model. I had been impressed with movies shown on my sons Panasonic LCD set, which is am old model and decided to take the plunge.

After much research I chose the Panasonic and certainly seemed to have made the right decision.

After receiving the set I set it up to my personal picture taste. Even with an indoor aeriel the pictures are outstanding on nearly all channels. DVD movies are excellent, although it will not improve a poor copy. I am so pleased I bought this set.”
Jack

Panasonic TX-L32X15 – Specifications

TV Tuner
Tuner Integrated yes
DVB Digital Tuner **** yes [DVB-T]
Tuning System PLL synthesizer 100-position auto-search tuner
CATV Compatibility UK
Broadcast Stereo Reception NICAM (FM)
Teletext Reception 1000P FASTEXT Level 2.5
Receiving System **** PAL-I, DVB-T
Receiving System (AV input) PAL-60, NTSC, M-NTSC

Display
Screen Size 32″ (80 cm) diagonal
Screen Aspect 16 : 9 Wide
Panel IPS-alpha (WXGA) LCD Panel
Fine Black Panel yes
Viewing Angle 178 degree
Contrast (Dynamic) 40,000:1
Progressive Scan yes
Number of Pixels 1,049,088 (1,366 x 768) pixels
Applicable PC signals VGA, WVGA, SVGA, XGA, WXGA, SXGA 60Hz
Applicable Scanning Format 525 (480)/60i, 525 (480)/60p, 625 (576)/50i, 625 (576)/50p, 750 (720)/50p, 750 (720)/60p, / 1125 (1080)/50i, 1125 (1080)/60i, 1125 (1080)/24p (HDMI only), 1125 (1080)/50p (HDMI only), 1125 (1080)/60p (HDMI only)
Intelligent Frame Creation 100 Hz IFC
Intelligent Scene Controller yes
24p Playback yes
24p Smooth Film yes
Colour Matrix Arrangement yes
Active Colour Enhancer yes
3D Colour Management yes
Picture Overscan yes
Video Noise Reduction yes
3D Comb Filter yes
Picture Mode Dynamic/Normal/Cinema/Game
Vreal Vreal 4

Sound
Speaker System Bottom Speaker
Speakers 1-way, 2-speakers
Audio Output 20 W (10 W x 2), 10% THD
Sound Mode Music/Speech
Surround V-Audio Surround
Dolby Digital Out no

Input/Output
CI (Common Interface)* yes
VIERA Image Viewer yes (AVCHD/JPEG playback)
HDMI Input 3 (2 rear, 1 side)
Composite Video Input AV3: RCA phono type x 1 (side)
S-Video Input AV3: Mini DIN 4-pin (side)
Audio Input (for Video) AV3: RCA phono type connectors (L, R) (1 set, side)
Component Video Input RCA phono type x 3 [Y , PB, PR] (rear)
PC Input Mini D-sub 15-pin x 1 (rear)
Audio Input (HDMI1, PC, Component) RCA phono type connectors (L, R) (1 set, rear)
21-Pin Input/Output AV1: AV In/Out, RGB In, Q-Link (rear) / AV2: AV In/Out, S-Video In, RGB In, Q-Link (rear)
Monitor Out RCA phono type connectors (L, R) (1 set, rear)
Audio Output Headphone jack (1, side)
Digital Audio Output (Optical) no

Features
EPG yes
VIERA Tools yes
VIERA Link yes (HDAVI Control 4)
Multi Window PAT
Eco Mode** yes
Game Mode yes
Q-Link yes
Aspect Controls Auto aspect/16:9/14:9/JUST/4:3/4:3 FULL (HD signal only)/Zoom1/Zoom2/Zoom3
On-Screen Display Languages English
Hold yes
Off Timer yes
Child Lock yes

General
Power Supply AC 220 – 240 V, 50 Hz
Rated Power Consumption 112 W
On mode Average Power Consumption*** 95 W
Standby Power Consumption 0.3 W
Dimensions (W x H x D) (with TV stand) 798 x 551 x 217 mm
Dimensions (W x H x D) (w/o TV stand) 798 x 511 x 93 mm
Weight (with TV stand) 13 kg
VESA Standard yes
Operating Temperature 0°C – 35°C