Panasonic PT-43LC14 43" Widescreen HD-Ready LCD Projection Television

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Summary: STAY AWAY!!!!
Review: Have a PT-45LC that is two years old. Have had to replace the lamp 5 times, at $300 a lamp, and now the ballast or something else is blown and the TV needs servicing. Nearly $2,000 just to run the TV for two years! We follow all the suggestions and are nuts about cleaning the filter, but the set just eats up bulbs. They last about 1,000 hours, not the 4,000-5,000 hours Panasonic claims, just long enough to be OFF of the 6 month warrantee. One lamp blew while under warrantee and it took 4 weeks for them to replace it. NICE! Unless you have money to burn, don't buy a Panasonic Projection TV. The company doesn't care about your satisfaction, and the product stinks.

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Summary: Nice picture, very expensive to maintain
Review: Have had PT-40LC12 for two years now and have experienced the same problems other reviewers have mentioned -- 2 lamps in 2 years at $330 each. Now the lamp ballast has gone bad and that will run another $1,000 for parts and labor.

Have heard lamps and lamp ballasts are an issue with all LCD and DLP rear projection, but can only cite my personal experience here.








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Summary: Nothing but problems
Review: I first purchased this TV a few weeks ago. After a week or so, I noticed that on certain cable channels (analog, not digital) the audio was out of sync with the video. This was usually in the range of 0.1 - 0.5 second lead in the audio. Confused, I watched some movies and it did the same thing. Thinking it was a problem with the TV, I had the only person I knew with a truck drive 2 hours to my house to bring it back, we brought it back no problem, got the new TV, that person left, and the TV then wouldn't turn on. Extremely aggrevated, I called the place where I purcahsed it and they agreed to deliver a new one for no charge. I got the new one and it has the same audio out of sync problem as the original, except sometimes it seems worse. This happens on the both the HDMI, and component outputs of the DVD player (and yes I did try a different DVD player). So either the store gave me back the original, or panasonic needs to review their schematics.

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Summary: Amazing TV - excellent picture, lightweight, compact!
Review: I just bought this TV from Circuit City, and it is an excellent product! The picture quality is superb, the color rendition is true and life-like, the sound is very good, and it is all encased in a thin, compact 14" deep, 65-lb. box! This TV does a marvellous job with both SD and HD signals, unlike some other HD sets, which display SD signals worse than conventional TVs. Another plus - there is no burn-in to worry about, unlike plasmas and conventional projection TVs. The included universal remote control is easy to use, and the TV's menu is moderately easy to navigate. The TV was ready to go straight out of the box, and did not require a complicated setup. I would definitely recommend it, it is an excellent set for a very reasonable price!!!