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Product Description The Panasonic VIERA HDTV PZ850 series introduces an exciting feature called VIERA Cast. VIERA Cast is a web menu that's built into the television, letting you enjoy great online entertainment like You Tube videos and your digital photos on Picasa web albums, all with just a click of a button - no PCs or external boxes are required. You can also get instant weather updates as well as the financial information from Bloomberg television. Best of all, the VIERA Cast menu will self-update as soon as great online content becomes available. Share the online entertainment fun with friends and family on a large screen HDTV!


Built-in Tuners
The TV has both analog (NTSC) and digital (ATSC) tuners, as well as a QAM tuner for unencrypted cable signals. With these built-in tuners, you don't have to purchase a separate digital set-top box to receive and decode HDTV/SDTV signals

Native Resolution
The TH-50PZ850U has a display resolution of 1920 x 1080. All incoming signals are converted to this native resolution. The HDMI digital and component video inputs will accept 1080i, 720p, 480p, and 480i, and will display them as 1920 x 1080. The HDMI inputs will also accept a 1080p signal.

24p Playback
This TV is capable of displaying film-based video at the frame rate of 24 fps via HDMI. Some Blu-ray and high definition discs offer special 24p frame rate video for most accurate display of film-based material.

1080p High-Def Resolution
With its 1920 x 1080 resolution, the HD panel on Panasonic plasmas displays beautiful images without having to perform pixel conversion for the 1080p video signals processed by the video circuitry1. Because super-high resolution is best appreciated on a large screen, Panasonic offers the 1080p HD panel in 50 inch and larger models. These dazzling images can be further enjoyed with the stunning detail and beauty of a Panasonic Blu-ray Disc player.

16:9 Aspect Ratio

The aspect ratio of a shape is the ratio of its longer dimension to its shorter dimension. It may be applied to two characteristic dimensions of a three-dimensional shape, such as the ratio of the longest and shortest axis, or for symmetrical objects that are described by just two measurements, such as the length and diameter of a rod.

30.000:1 Contrast Ratio

The contrast ratio is a measure of a display system, defined as the ratio of the luminance of the brightest color (white) to that of the darkest color (black) that the system is capable of producing. A high contrast ratio is a desired aspect of any display, but with the various methods of measurement for a system or its part, remarkably different measured values can sometimes produce similar results.



Features Included:

    * 49.9" screen (measured diagonally)
    * widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio
    * built-in digital (ATSC) and analog (NTSC) tuners
    * built-in QAM cable TV tuner
    * 1920 x 1080 pixels
    * 30,000:1 contrast ratio (1,000,000:1 dynamic)
    * Sub Pixel Controller video processing
    * 24p Cinematic Playback mode (displays 1080p/24 content at 48Hz)