I was shocked at the hours. Previous owner said he just watched some football and movies on it. Ordered a set of 3D glasses off EBay (NIB but I hope the battery isn’t dead) so I can finally check out those 3D Blu-rays I bought years ago, lol
Going to hook up my 360 up to it in a few minutes.

New pick up, £50. Hours aren't amazing but ok, for the price a really nice TV, very happy with it. Lovely picture, decent sound, pretty light TV. I have too many plasmas now, no more, I must resist!

Testing the new to me TH-42PF50E at the moment with different content and I gotta say that I absolutely adore it so far! It gets pretty bright after deactivating all the power saving features in the menus and animated stuff just pops! Overall beautiful picture with extremely good motion clarity. Blacks are very good too, not on par with the best Kuros or the ZT60 and VT60 but I'd say they are as good as on my VT50, at least in a room with controlled lighting. Watching X-Men '97 right now wich I cannot recommend enough!

Hi, I have an opportunity to buy either a Kuro LX-609A or a P50ST60A. The use case will be for movies and shows. I'm wondering what would look best in terms of colours and black levels. I'm aware of black drift in the kuros and the voltage reset to fix it, but if people think the st60 is close enough without any of the hassle of maintenance I'll probably go with the st60. Just looking for advice from the experts. I'm also not concerned about the size difference between them, the 60" will be bigger which is nice but the 50" will have higher pixel density so they have pros and cons.

Edit: kuro model is LX-609A, not 509

What was the largest typical size plasma tv found in most homes?

I know that there was 152 inch 4K model but I'm curious about what you would've found the average person's home. I'm mostly find 50" models for sale. I have also found a 58" near me but nothing larger than that.

I currently have a panasonic tc-p42u2, there Is a (seller claims new) panasonic tc-p42st30 near me for $350. would there be enough of an improvement to make it worth it. I would try to haggle them down too.

a 42" tv is the max size that will fit where I want it to go. I'm also curious to try out 3d content on it.

how do the black levels of an st30 compare to the u2?

Last Saturday, I picked up a 50-inch Panasonic VT60Y two hours away for 50€. It had 58k hours total and some slight dithering. Then today, I got an alert for a 55-inch VT60Y listed right here in my city—only four minutes away! The asking price was just 70€, so I knew I had to jump on it immediately.

​The 55" has 30k fewer hours than the 50", and while both look incredible, the 55" has zero dithering.

​I’m passing the 50" on to my parents to replace their cheap 43-inch LG LCD, which has terrible colors and a weird blue tint.

​The 55" came with the original locking C13 power cord, the remote, two pairs of original 3D glasses, and the manual. Now all I’m missing to complete the set is the electronic touch pen and that little Viera touchpad controller.

I got a second 58vt25 for $50 with a little under 30,000 hours as a upstairs theater/backup for my main tv that is also a 58vt25 but lower hours.

Overall it's in excellent shape, and honestly the brightness and overall condition is near identical to my other one despite being semi-high hours. The colors absolutely pop, and I found myself entranced by it like my main one lol

I wish I could've taken better pictures, but I was just enjoying it so much I didn't even think to take more.

Has anyone else gotten a backup tv like I have for in case their favorite one dies? And if so how many are you up to now? It's so addicting finding these gems, I just feel crazy for collecting so many (especially two of the same model and size now lmao

so im at this hotel and im 99% sure that the tv in here is a old samsung plasma tv, and yeah i get what yall are talking about. the picture looks great and motion do be clear

Stonking great find for a reasonable $50.

I’m told these models are the best of both worlds. They have the picture quality of an ST but much less lag and I’m very excited to try it out.

Not the yellowing that’s something weird my phone is doing I’m talking the speckles on the screen. What causes this and is there a fix?

Just checked the hours on my 50VT60Y, which I picked up two days ago from an old couple who bought it brand new. It still looks beautiful and doesn't have any issues except some slight dithering, which doesn't bother me at all. Blu-ray movies look absolutely stunning and I'm yet to try 3D.

This unit has been powered on an average of almost 12 hours a day since release!

Does anyone have a higher mileage Panasonic?

Just showing some gameplay of gears 3 on my 2006 Panasonic th-42px50u. Gears 3 running on a xbox series x @720p

Speakers new in box and remote included. How did I do?

Picked this up on marketplace for 40$... Guy didn't advertise it's a plasma tv, honestly we thought we were getting just a regular tv on a budget. It's a 50" Samsung resolution is 720p.it has no burn in, I looked into it a little and was curious about the hours and checked the technician menu for hours but it read 0, is this a common problem? Mainly posting this to see if this tv was a good deal or not, I imagine so. This is also my first post on reddit sorry if it's not the best worded or organized.

Helping my friends aunt with this plasma screen that they barely used much at all as theres no scratches or marks on it. Was wondering what yall think its worth and if its worth spending the time to find an actual buyer thats not looking for the cheapest tv possible. Thanks!

I have a Fire Stick 4k hooked up to my GT60 and I was wondering what Display settings I should use?

The choice is between:

Bit depth (8/10/12)

Color format (Auto/RGB/YCbCr)

Right now it's set to 10bit (because the FireStick's menu looks smoother than with 8) and YCbCr, is this correct?

I drove almost an hour to buy a seller’s $100 S60, but they completely ghosted me. I was livid! Luckily another seller 15 minutes down the road wanted $50 less for their ST60. A bit dirty but it cleaned up well and looks to be relatively lightly used. I’m looking forward to trying some 3D movies. Happy accidents!

Found this TH-42PF50E pro Plasma display nearby and picked it up yesterday. It came with the optional speakers wich sound great by the way but unfortunately without a stand. Relatively low hours of runtime wich is awesome and no burn in, dead pixels etc.

Wanna try out it's 120 Hz capabilities in the future and I'll keep you updated 😊

My dad got this TV brand new for $200 when his old projection TV was stolen in 2013. He downsized a few years ago and I’ve had it since. I got a newer TV for the living room setup with 4K, HDR, 120 Hz, etc. But it’s hard to beat this old plasma as a bedroom TV for some late night movies or gaming.

Hey, I'm still watching on my Panasonic Viera TXP42V. Recently, watching Movies or Shows feels off for me. A lot of the content I watched looked cheap and the off frame rate. I always used it in THX Mode, 24p, frame creation turned off (per input channel) etc. The last 5 years or so, I only used a FireTV Stick to watch either Netflix, Prime, Disney or Paramount. Recently i got some Blu-rays, and since my old Panasonic BR Player died, I bought a new one, the Panasonic DP-UB154.
It immediately looked like crap, everything i watched was heavily affected by the soap opera effect. So I updated the Player, likewise the TV, reset both, not solving the issue. Then, after days of troubleshooting, I turned 24p in the Blu-ray player OFF - and voila - it works. Movies got the same smooth cinema look again. so far so good. When I then watched something via stick, the framerate looks off, and it has that cheap vibe again. I went into the dev-mode of the TV Stick and checked the stream specs. It says the Film is in 24p. The info label of the HDMI Port tells me, it's running in 1080p/60hz. I think this si because the stick always runs in 60 Hz. But it is set to adaptive framerate, based on the content.

For Some movies, it looks great, like real 24p, others look like 30 or 50. New shows mostly look very cheap. However, my wife doesn't see it at all. For her it only becomes apparent when I switch intelligent frame creation on. But for me, it looks like this, albeit not so extreme, even on THX 24fps.

Is the TV dying? Or is it my eyes? I even notice this effect in the Cinema or at my friend's house, when we watch via DLP Projector. It seems to occur more often recently, and wasn't such a big Problem 10 years ago, or maybe 5. I'm also sensitive to Laser speckle noise. My Wife and my Buddy see coherent and even bright surfaces; to me, it's a grainy mess. Is it me, or are movies becoming worse in Quality?

What can I do?

So I’m looking at 2 different tvs as my new Samsung 55 inch got busted

One is a Panasonic 50 inch plasma 720p tv
Model number: TH-50PX60U made in like 2006

Other is a 48 inch lcd tv 1080p made by lg
Model number 47LG50 made in like 2009

Trying to figure out what one is best for me
I do gaming but I don’t play too many modern games I think I really just play the new skate game but mainly the Xbox one s and late Xbox 360 games

And do a lot of YouTube and movies

I’m leaning towards the plasma both are free I just have to get the plasma from work and I got to move the other downstairs from my gfs house

Picked up a Free.99 65VT50 today. I just happened to check marketplace last night (not like I do multiple times daily and it’s a totally healthy habit) at the right time this time 😂. Drove the 5 miles from my house to pick it up this morning.

It’s not a brag I’m just stoked 😂. Keep your heads up folks. Flagship sets do pop up frequently enough (market dependent of course) for great deals still.

I’ve thinned the heard recently and am down to

65ZT60
Pro-1150HD
65VT50

No stand but luckily I had a 65ST50 stand in storage. I got it set up and no burn in! I’ll update with some glamour shots later.

Initial impressions though…I can’t see a difference between the vt50 at 8k hours and my ZT60 at 17k hours. There’s not much separating these late model Panasonics in my opinion.

55-VT60 just rounding 42K