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Old 28-11-2016, 13:53
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To anyone in the know a 32 inch screen Panasonic 720p tv or a Samsung 1080p 32inch tv would I be able to tell the difference in picture quality.

I have always liked the Panasonics the menu structure and that headphones dont need to be unplugged if you want the televisions main speaker to be active to and that I can always get the picture to fill the entire screen.

However there are no new Panasonic 32 inch tvs that are full hd. This concerns me a bit.

So the question is would there be a noticable drop in picture quality between a Samsung 32 inch H6400 and a Panasonic 32 ds500b ?

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Old 28-11-2016, 16:07
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The picture is not always meant to fill the entire screen. If you stretch a 4:3 picture to do that you are adding deliberate distortion. Why would anyone want to do that?

Only you can decide the difference in picture quality by looking in dealers. But bear in mind there are no 720p transmissions in the UK so the Panasonic would surely be a poor choice.
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Old 28-11-2016, 16:31
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To anyone in the know a 32 inch screen Panasonic 720p tv or a Samsung 1080p 32inch tv would I be able to tell the difference in picture quality.

I have always liked the Panasonics the menu structure and that headphones dont need to be unplugged if you want the televisions main speaker to be active to and that I can always get the picture to fill the entire screen.

However there are no new Panasonic 32 inch tvs that are full hd. This concerns me a bit.

So the question is would there be a noticable drop in picture quality between a Samsung 32 inch H6400 and a Panasonic 32 ds500b ?

Thanks
The answer is maybe, maybe not. If you're watching the TV from close enough to see the extra dots of a 1080 panel (deemed to be 4-6ft for the average eye) then the 1080 Samsung could be better.
Other factors could & should be more important. Motion handling, colour reproduction, viewing angle, contrast ratio are all arguably more important than just resolution.
The advice would simply be stop looking at stats on a spec list and go to a shop for a demo. That's the only way for you to decide which one you think has the better picture & that is what's most important.
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Old 28-11-2016, 16:44
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I agree that the resolution is the least of the issues.

Since at normal viewing distance (8ft ??) I doubt that it's possible to tell the different between an HD-Ready display and Full-HD on a 32" TV


But if Panasonic are using HD-Ready in their 32" TVs then where is the panel from?

You shouldn't assume the HD-Ready panel/video processing panel is of an equivalent quality to the Samsung. It might be worse, it might be better.

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What Winston_1 said about "720p transmissions" isn't something to be concerned about.
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Old 28-11-2016, 17:50
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I wonder where the panel is sourced from myself to. Thank you all for your advice
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Old 28-11-2016, 18:09
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The picture is not always meant to fill the entire screen. If you stretch a 4:3 picture to do that you are adding deliberate distortion. Why would anyone want to do that?

Only you can decide the difference in picture quality by looking in dealers. But bear in mind there are no 720p transmissions in the UK so the Panasonic would surely be a poor choice.
There aren't any 720p sets either. Apart from a very few Plasma TV's HD Ready sets have 768 line displays.

The best HD Ready displays had much superior pictures to the cheaper Full-HD units.

The legendary Pioneer-Kuro TV's had 768 line displays. A 1920 x 1080 interlaced fills a HD Ready 16:9 display with no distortion. Some VOD services like NOW TV are 720p (1280 x 720).
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Old 28-11-2016, 19:43
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I bought a 32" HD Ready 720 Smart tv for my bedroom last year and am very happy with it. I can certainly tell the difference between, for example, BBC1 on 1 and on 101.

Also, the sound quality is quite good.
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Old 28-11-2016, 20:42
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I bought a 32" HD Ready 720 Smart tv for my bedroom last year and am very happy with it.
As graham above mentioned, you didn't - there have hardly ever been any 720 sets, and none at all for many years.

If you bought an HD Ready set it's most probably 768 resolution.

As far as HD Ready/Full HD goes, as also mentioned previously, a good quality HD ready set will give a far superior picture to a cheap Full HD one.
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Old 29-11-2016, 10:33
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I bought a 32" HD Ready 720 Smart tv for my bedroom last year and am very happy with it. I can certainly tell the difference between, for example, BBC1 on 1 and on 101.

Also, the sound quality is quite good.
What make and model was that?
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Old 29-11-2016, 22:25
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As has been stated the D500 is indeed 768 not 720. Have been looking at the spec on the Panasonic website it says it is a bright panel so no idea if it is a VA or IPS panel.

What Hi Fi gave the Panasonic D500 4 stars and the Samsung H6400 5 stars. The D500 is a 2016 model whereas the Samsung H6400 is a 2014 model. I cant seem to find out if it is a va or ips panel either.

Thanks for all your input.
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Old 30-11-2016, 12:27
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I bought a 32" HD Ready 720 Smart tv for my bedroom last year and am very happy with it. I can certainly tell the difference between, for example, BBC1 on 1 and on 101.

Also, the sound quality is quite good.
HD ready sets did not have Freview HD tuners. To get HD you had to use an HD source e.g. A Humax HD-Fox T2. As others have said HD ready TV's are a thing of the past in larger sets.
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Old 30-11-2016, 13:37
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HD ready sets did not have Freview HD tuners. To get HD you had to use an HD source e.g. A Humax HD-Fox T2. As others have said HD ready TV's are a thing of the past in larger sets.
Initially neither did "Full HD" TV's have DVB-T2 tuners to receive Freeview HD.

The terms HD Ready and Full HD more often than not apply to the display panel rather than what sort of broadcasts the TV may or may not have been able to receive.

You can get 768 TVs with Freeview HD and 1080 TVs without. So the distinction is somewhat blurred these days.
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Old 30-11-2016, 14:29
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HD ready sets did not have Freview HD tuners. To get HD you had to use an HD source e.g. A Humax HD-Fox T2. As others have said HD ready TV's are a thing of the past in larger sets.
The terms HD Ready & Full HD have no bearing on the integration of a HD tuner or any tuner at all. It was simply a way to say that the set had a minimum resolution and the connections to input a HD source.
We've sold TVs with Freeview HD that are HD ready, Full HD tvs with Freeview (not HD) & Freesat HD built in, Full HDTVs with Freeview/freesat HD built & 4k TVs with Freeview/Freesat HD built in but no 4K tuner or even ability to stream 4K (just the ability to have a 4K device plugged in to them).

edit: Sorry Chris, didn't mean to duplicate essentially what you said. Had this in a window earlier and forgot to post it, then did without checking!
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