Panasonic Tv will it get terrestrial HD?

Just seen an advert on TV for a new range of Panasonic TV sets claiming sets
can receive HD TV.
Is it Freesat they mean? (ie built in)
What about the coming terrestrial HD?

My impression was yes but will "small print" somewhere say with a box added?


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David

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David wrote:
Just seen an advert on TV for a new range of Panasonic TV sets
claiming sets can receive HD TV.
Is it Freesat they mean? (ie built in)
What about the coming terrestrial HD?

My impression was yes but will "small print" somewhere say with a box
added?

Your impression was wrong, don't expect a TV that can receive terrestrial HD
for about a year.

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David wrote:
Just seen an advert on TV for a new range of Panasonic TV sets
claiming sets can receive HD TV.
Is it Freesat they mean? (ie built in)
What about the coming terrestrial HD?

My impression was yes but will "small print" somewhere say with a box
added?

Your impression was wrong, don't expect a TV that can receive terrestrial
HD for about a year.

Thanks will watch again and if claiming to I will report advert.
thanks
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David

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David wrote:
: Just seen an advert on TV for a new range of Panasonic TV sets claiming sets
: can receive HD TV.
: Is it Freesat they mean? (ie built in)

Yes it is!

: What about the coming terrestrial HD?

Will need a STB. These sets only have a Freesat tuner.

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"Adrian" wrote in message
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David wrote:
Just seen an advert on TV for a new range of Panasonic TV sets
claiming sets can receive HD TV.
Is it Freesat they mean? (ie built in)
What about the coming terrestrial HD?

My impression was yes but will "small print" somewhere say with a
box added?

Your impression was wrong, don't expect a TV that can receive
terrestrial HD for about a year.

Thanks will watch again and if claiming to I will report advert.
thanks

I think I know the ad you mean, and it certainly gave me the impression that
the TVs were capable of receiving HD 'out of the box'. Next time it is on,
I'll pay more attention...

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Brian McIlwrath wrote:
David wrote:
: Just seen an advert on TV for a new range of Panasonic TV sets claiming sets
: can receive HD TV.
: Is it Freesat they mean? (ie built in)

Yes it is!

: What about the coming terrestrial HD?

Will need a STB. These sets only have a Freesat tuner.

No, they have a freeview tuner and an analogue tuner too, but not a
freeview HD tuner.

Andy Burns wrote:

No, they have a freeview tuner and an analogue tuner too, but not a
freeview HD tuner.

Apparently I mis-remembered, they *don't* have a freeview tuner, sorry

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"Adrian" wrote in message
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David wrote:
Just seen an advert on TV for a new range of Panasonic TV sets
claiming sets can receive HD TV.
Is it Freesat they mean? (ie built in)
What about the coming terrestrial HD?

My impression was yes but will "small print" somewhere say with a
box added?

Your impression was wrong, don't expect a TV that can receive
terrestrial HD for about a year.

Thanks will watch again and if claiming to I will report advert.
thanks

I think I know the ad you mean, and it certainly gave me the
impression that the TVs were capable of receiving HD 'out of the
box'. Next time it is on, I'll pay more attention...

The Website gives me the same impression, but it's freeSAT, not freeVIEW

http://www.panasonic.co.uk/html/en_GB/711712/index.html

"... and as they're the first televisions with freesat HD built-in..."


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"Brian McIlwrath" wrote in message
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David wrote:
: Just seen an advert on TV for a new range of Panasonic TV sets claiming
sets
: can receive HD TV.
: Is it Freesat they mean? (ie built in)

Yes it is!

: What about the coming terrestrial HD?

Will need a STB. These sets only have a Freesat tuner.



So what would you be able to receive with a Pioneer KRP-600A:

http://www.pioneer.co.uk/uk/products...00A/index.html

It clearly has digital tuners for terrestrial and satellite, and some
ablility to handle HD but no claims to support either Freeview or Freesat.


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Michael Chare

On Friday, October 31st 2008, at 11:59:32h +0000, Peter Duncanson wrote:

I haven't found such small print, but the specifications say what it
will do, and this does not include terrestrial HD:
http://www.panasonic.co.uk/html/en_G...35/index.html?
trackInfo=true

Receiving System
PAL -I yes
DVB yes
DVB-S HD (H.264, FreeSat) yes

So no DVB-s2 tuner? That is immediate inbuilt obsolescence.