{"id":2481,"date":"2003-07-17T19:35:28","date_gmt":"2003-07-17T09:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=2481"},"modified":"2010-09-30T17:53:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T07:53:28","slug":"panasonic-goes-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=2481","title":{"rendered":"Panasonic goes digital"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Meanwhile,\u00a0Panasonic<\/a> has gone digital. It’s introducing two digital set top boxes and a 76cm widescreen TV with integrated Standard Definition digital tuner (the\u00a0TX-76DT30A<\/a>). This $4,399 TV is available now.<\/p>\n

The cheaper of the two set top boxes supports SD only (model TU-CT20A) and, at $549, seems to be a little overpriced in that it lacks digital audio outputs (you can get the RCA and Zinwell boxes, with similar capabilities, for quite a bit cheaper). The TV seems a bit pricy too. While it’s a good 100 hertz 76cm widescreen model, it doesn’t get the ‘Fine Pitch’ treatment of the other new\u00a0Panasonic model<\/a>. Add the $3,629 of this model to the $549 of the SD box and you get $4,178, or more than $200 cheaper<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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than the integrated model. On the other hand, if well-implemented, the integrated TV ought to deliver better quality pictures from digital broadcasts, because\u00a0it should not suffer<\/a> the extra pair of digital to analogue, and analogue to digital conversions inherent in set top box connections.<\/p>\n

The other set top box (model QTR2140) is a welcome addition to the line up since it competes in the very limited high definition field which, until now, has been exclusivelyDGTEC<\/a>‘s. This supports up to 1080i and has a full set of digital audio outputs. It will sell for $989. Both set top boxes are scheduled to be available in August 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meanwhile,\u00a0Panasonic has gone digital. It’s introducing two digital set top boxes and a 76cm widescreen TV with integrated Standard Definition digital tuner (the\u00a0TX-76DT30A). This $4,399 TV is available now. The cheaper of the two set top boxes supports SD only … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,12,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2482,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions\/2482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}