In Reply to: What will your next video/home theater purchase be? posted by DavidLD on March 24, 2008 at 04:33:00:
ordered it today
the panasonic 42PWD (480p) I bought 7 or 8 years ago (for the same price I paid for the Kiro !) is in the shop getting a new chipset.
It still works fine, but the remote went out about three years ago and I never got around to fixing it ... the remote accesses picture menu (which I set when I first got the pannel), speaker volume (don't use them), aspect ratio ( use the Sony SAT HD300 for that), and some high-end features (this is a pro monitor -- not the consumer model) that I haven't needed.
I was torn between getting another pro panasonic (TH-50PF9UK) because the bezel is so nice and thin and clean ....
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could have gone either way ... but wasn't sure the HDMI card (add-on) on the panny was up to snuff.
... the Kiro is supposed to be state-of-the-art in plasma for another ten or twelve hours ... then Pionsonic is coming out with gen. 11
(the horror ... the horror)
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Follow Ups
- Kiro - petew 15:16:31 03/26/08 (2)
- That's Kuro--japanese for black. What model did you order? NT - Jazz Inmate 15:25:06 03/26/08 (1)
- no -- I ordered Kiro ... Korean version (nt) - petew 15:31:18 03/26/08 (0)