macana
Established Member
Howdy everyone,
Very excited! I'm finally buying a Panasonic TH-42PWD7UY and hoping for delivery today, but just have one or two questions to put my mind at ease.
First off, yes, I'm buying the older generation, unfortunately the 8 series isn't available in South Africa yet, and at £1500 it's the best deal I've found. I have been assured (mainly in this forum) that the difference between the 7 and 8 series is not worth waiting until March for (and paying more).
The deal includes a wall mount bracket and an input board that provides Component, S-Video and Composite inputs, but the vendor has warned me that I can only use 1 input at a time on this board.
This raises a question I'm hoping someone can help answer for me:
Everything will be routed through my Yamaha Amp, which can upscale Composite to S-Video, but won't upscale S-Video to Component... so I will be plugging in as follows:
Amp -> Plasma via Component
Amp -> Plasma via S-Video
DVD -> Amp via Component
DVDR -> Amp via Component
Sat-tuner Channel 1 -> DVDR via SCART
Sat-tuner Channel 2 -> Amp via S-Video
PS2 -> Amp via Composite
So, given the limitations of the board (and my amp), does it mean that the above config will work, but I will have to change inputs on the plasma manually (via remote) between S-Video and Component for each device?
And does it mean that I cannot make use of the PIP/PAP functions since only one input will work at a time?
Then, I need to buy a desktop stand, which will cost me £150, is this a fair price? Apparently a non-Panasonic alternative is available for £50, would that be an unwise purchase?
Thanks to everyone in this forum for helping me finally make my decision!
Cheers,
Very excited! I'm finally buying a Panasonic TH-42PWD7UY and hoping for delivery today, but just have one or two questions to put my mind at ease.
First off, yes, I'm buying the older generation, unfortunately the 8 series isn't available in South Africa yet, and at £1500 it's the best deal I've found. I have been assured (mainly in this forum) that the difference between the 7 and 8 series is not worth waiting until March for (and paying more).
The deal includes a wall mount bracket and an input board that provides Component, S-Video and Composite inputs, but the vendor has warned me that I can only use 1 input at a time on this board.
This raises a question I'm hoping someone can help answer for me:
Everything will be routed through my Yamaha Amp, which can upscale Composite to S-Video, but won't upscale S-Video to Component... so I will be plugging in as follows:
Amp -> Plasma via Component
Amp -> Plasma via S-Video
DVD -> Amp via Component
DVDR -> Amp via Component
Sat-tuner Channel 1 -> DVDR via SCART
Sat-tuner Channel 2 -> Amp via S-Video
PS2 -> Amp via Composite
So, given the limitations of the board (and my amp), does it mean that the above config will work, but I will have to change inputs on the plasma manually (via remote) between S-Video and Component for each device?
And does it mean that I cannot make use of the PIP/PAP functions since only one input will work at a time?
Then, I need to buy a desktop stand, which will cost me £150, is this a fair price? Apparently a non-Panasonic alternative is available for £50, would that be an unwise purchase?
Thanks to everyone in this forum for helping me finally make my decision!
Cheers,