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Two months before its NZ release, a top British website has acclaimed Panasonic’s 50-inch 3D plasma TV as “comfortably the finest mainstream TV Panasonic has ever produced, and one of the finest TVs ever seen period”. Veteran Trusted Reviews critic John Archer rates it 9/10 for performance and value, 10/10 for features, and praises the [...]

Panasonic NZ expects to be selling two Full-HD 3D-capable Viera plasma TVs here by July/August. TV and Blu-ray products manager Grant Shaw told ScreenScribe.tv initially two sizes will be offered: 50 inches and 65 inches. Pricing hasn’t been disclosed but the premium they’ll command won’t be as steep as that of Panasonic’s wireless Z1 plasma [...]

The first 3D TVs from Samsung could go on sale in NZ as early as April. “We are thrilled that the new 3D TVs will be in the New Zealand market some time during the second quarter,” Samsung’s NZ director of marketing, Rachael Cotton-Bronte, said after the company announced it was the first in the [...]

THX marks the sweet spot of Panasonic’s new V and Z range of plasma TVs. A shortcoming of Panasonic’s Viera flat-screen TVs has been their limited picture tweaking options. But engage any of the new models in THX mode and fine-tuning becomes irrelevant, so accurate is the colour. Just as it set the standard for [...]