Suddenly, the shelves of electronics stores seem to iPod-friendly HDTV flooded. Okay, not really upset, but at least two candidates are busy trying to fit where precious Pod or phone nestled night, loading, and serves delicious music and video on a screen much bigger than iTunes or your favorite software conversion video ever. The TC DMC-LX1 is not as user friendly as the JVC LT-P300 that we have previously tested for its inability to display iPod based on digital photos or adjust the ratio for the video, but remains strong at ease. The JVC also has a slightly better picture quality HDTV, but the Panasonic is cheaper comparable screen sizes.

3 things we like about the Panasonic TC-L26X1

• Inexpensive relatively
• Charging and playback is allowed by iPod dock for music and video
• It provided us accurate colors

4 things we don’t like about the Panasonic TC-L26X1

• Lighter black levels were produced
• Aspect ratio with iPod video can’t be changed
• iPod based digital photos won’t be displayed
• There is no analog audio output

Panasonic TC-L26X1 Review

Glossy black plastic covering all the TC-LX1, which is relatively small, rounded edges; roll up the lower limit of the window. The speakers are not visible from the front – is at the bottom of the table and the front set low – and the controls and inputs are hidden on each side, hidden from view. The oval correspondents do not rotate.

We prefer the full, as cleaner and more comfortable, but the external docking station is quite functional (if you’re wondering, no iPod dock works with others, all included a Panasonic). Unlike the joint venture has a dock for the Panasonic does not support a separate adapter dock.

Just place your iPod in the dock, the Panasonic starts charging, charging, and will not matter if you have access to content, or if the TV is turned on or off. Although the iPod menu opens automatically when (a Pod compatible when using the Plug and Play TV menu is selected), then we would prefer an iPod separate, you can find the remote control – you have the Viera tools to use.

To break the playable content, the Panasonic menu system for iPod offers music videos, podcasts and classes. The music is by playlists, artists, albums, songs, categorized and audio books. We believe that you can go up or down, long checklists soft-button on the remote, but like to see support for video coverage. To mix or repeat songs, you should get the menu Settings – is the preferred method, the JVC offers shuffle to the main menu music. The video section offers categories of films, music videos, television shows, video podcasts, and rents, and the Board receives video podcasts and audio categories. Video played in the right screen for the menu structure so that during playback. You can add video to full screen, but unfortunately, the portion control is not supported (see below).

The remote is dominated by a trio of buttons – Viera Link, Viera, and SD-Card – the arch over the central cursor control. Besides the tools to access Viera iPod, all three offer direct access to the information found on most users usually will not guarantee access and basic-yet-tiny Menu button takes a second location near the top of the clicker. We love the feel of the keys, and to assess the size, color, shape and differentiation, which helps us to remember that none of the keys are illuminated. The remote can control other devices via infrared (IR commands), but can be connected to a control device to your HDMI compatible TV using Viera Link (aka HDMI-CEC).

Panasonic sophisticated design main menu on the television in 2009. The same yellow to blue in the detection system (albeit with a blue tint) and the menu is virtually unchanged, but the main event, a couple of pictures now, and is slightly rounded edges. Overall, there is always one of the simple statements of the menu according to their main market, but we hope that the company deemed appropriate, including explanations on the screen and more advanced products.

Access iPod LX1 is the main selling point, and TV service with more than you expect in an iPod dock. It is compatible with the latest music and videos, so check the compatibility chart for more information. iPod is not listed, the elderly, especially, are not compatible, although our tests went well with the iPhone, although it was not on the table and the company did not support officially . You can see other content (such as applications, browsers or e-mail) from your iPhone or iPod on the big screen, and some older iPods, no video output.

Unlike the JVC, the Panasonic cannot display photos from your iPod on the big screen – you should transfer to an SD card or use another way to view your photos. The Panasonic also missing a few turns of the firm: the ability to replace your iPod to your computer via USB Sync, you have a TV show audio to match the playback speed iPod or audiobook. We understand that the audio output of iPod digital TV audio granted to external devices, if your iPod music through the TV through your home theater system to play, for example. Most video and audio settings can also be applied to the contents of the iPod.

The Panasonic is a situation JVC. Through mode remote, the TC-LX1 menu screen goes away and you can operate your iPod music and video using the TV remote. We do not know why this option is also available, except for the cover until you see on TV.

In addition to its role as an iPod dock, the Panasonic TC-LX1 series is also a feature of HD-rich. This lack of native 1080p resolution found on step-up of many models, but we believe that a major problem, especially in this screen size. The Panasonic cannot accept signals 1080p, to make sure the gear HDMI 720p or 1080i set before connecting to the TC-LX1.

Compared with many other manufacturers’ brands HDTV Panasonic offers far fewer image adjustments. Yes, the basics are there, including handicaps, said the company’s image to another. We want four modes overall picture is adjustable and the fifth, called Custom, independent entrance. Game play of the company is basically only one way picture does not mean the video editing, as some other forms of play makers.

For more information, there are three predefined color temperature of which is the temperature increase was closer to the standard D65, even if no new provisions for the completion of the gray scale. It affects the control of the color decoder, a pair of on / off settings, reduce video noise, and allows you to specify a different black level (the choice of light exposure), the appropriate amount of shade. That’s about it – no gamma, color depth, or other advanced settings. You can choose from four options in relation to sources of HD and standard-def sources, including a zoom function allows you to adjust the size of horizontal and vertical. The TV has picture in picture and can temporarily freeze the picture to get a phone number, for example. It may, however, to accept the SD card with your digital photos into a slot on the left side for what they can read the images on the big screen. We also have the potential to save energy; control of TV backlight is reduced to reduce electricity use.

Panasonic Dock works so well that we expected. Tried a iPhone (3,0 software), iPod touch, iPod nano 3G and 4G iPod nano and experienced no major problems. The iPhone has been in flight mode, as usual, although work in ports and have some warning messages on the display device incompatibility – but everything seems OK to work independently.

Not surprisingly, the video goes on the air across the screen seemed much worse than the small Pod on the screen. We checked a video of Iron Man ripped from the DVD and the quality was much worse than DVD, with gentleness and obvious compression artifacts.

We have tried to disable the video output on large screen iPod Touch, but this does not work. Being drawn into another case, a 4:3-version of The Office has appeared in our iPod nano 3G, but not circumcised, so that everyone can see the shorter and thicker. It is frustrating to be able to see the image in correct proportions, no harvest; we had no problem the change of JVC. Overall, the Panasonic is perfectly appropriate in terms of picture quality HDTV, but not the Home Theater enthusiasts looking for a wow deep level of black – one reason, and unless the performance angle, because the JVC better performance. The Panasonic delivered a little more bright colors, though.

There is little you can do to set the TC-LX1 default images. We started with the creation of films and increased 25ftl relatively low light output of our level 40, and that was for calibration. The function of Al-image, which by default in all modes of the image is active, is cruder than most of these modes dynamically control the backlight, and the variations are obvious and alarming to a lot of normal program material. We recommend that in any event, to be let off the screen for home theater.

Comparison of our TC, the iPod-friendly parties L32X1 JVC LT-46P300, and some LCD screens medium, the 42PFL6404D Philips and Sony KDL-52V5100. We also have our reference Pioneer PRO-111FD. For this study, we have the Blu-ray Marley & me for most of our tests, image quality.

Panasonic LCD products do not provide very deep black shadows in our tests. In dark scenes like Luke Wilson in the garage seems to light up Marley, Shadow, published in the black box, and areas above and below the picture more positive than other monitors in comparison with us, except from Philips. More swept a good dose of black pop has effects far from the image. We managed to make the black areas bleak picture by winning AI, as mentioned above, but this does not help us much. We reduce the color control, which helped a little, but it is obviously negative effect on drilling and saturation of the image.

We have no serious stains clearer in TC-LX1 screen, albeit in very dark scenes, we could see a slightly brighter area at the top and the white areas, such as the bathtub in the White Wedding receptions cannot see that the left and right edges are slightly darker than the center. It appears from the perspective outside the Panasonic, Philips was the second worst in the programming, the washing of dark areas, and shifts color indicates worse than ether JVC or Sony LCD.

Through the analog PC input looking at the best resolution we could get to see the analysis 1024 x 768, a disappointment because of the parent screen resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. This resolution has 1280 x 768 pixels, not shown, but the scale is not accurate and the banks have shown a phantom description, which was worse than the softer, much clearer picture of 1024 x 768 pixels. Via HDMI, do not always have an image appear correctly in 1366 x 768 pixels, but we suspect that a different graphics card, we would have more luck. Still, the TC-PC L32X1 performance worse than we suspect away from the flat-screen LCD, even a relatively low resolution.

Final Words and Conclusion

Panasonic LCD, a sub-average standard-def interpreter. The amount does not resolve every line of DVD format is a little small for horizontal resolution, which in some kindness with SD sources, such as lead in the stone bridge and grass from our image sample. We found the more jaggies along diagonal lines, waving an American flag, for example, where the sign on the other side. Noise reduction is decent, but only encourage more to move the snow to the same circuit for several other ensembles. Finally, its 2:3 pull down detection.

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