Panasonic Viera TH-P50VT20a

Deep, deep blacks ; True-to-life colours ; Excellent noise performance ; Access to YouTube and more ; Impressive size

Slight cross-hatching effect ; Prone to jaggies ; No swivel mount ; Costly

It may not be the prettiest flower in the bunch, and has its quirks, but the Panasonic VT20 is an impressive television. To those who buy it: you better stock up on beers, you're going to suddenly make a lot of new friends.

Deep black levels ; Incredibly natural pictures ; First plasma that still looks good in a lit room ; Excellent feature set ; Subtle design ; Well-priced ; Green

Occasional video problems ; 3D implementation not the best ; 3D glasses are expensive ; IPTV offering not very comprehensive yet

The VT20 is an excellent television, and we predict it will be seen as one of the best TVs ever. It just happens that Sony's TV is that much better.

Good 2D and 3D picture quality, useful Viera Cast Internet features

Less attractive than Samsung's Series 7

Panasonic's TH-P50VT20A 3D-ready plasma television is an excellent performer. It has exceptionally good contrast and detail levels, making it an easy choice if you want the absolute best image quality from your television.

3D adds new depth to many genres (if you'll pardon the pun)

Panasonic's 3D glasses won't be cheap

We're looking forward to the chance to spend some quality time with the Panasonic Viera TH-P50VT20a -- a 3D-capable plasma TV -- when we get it into our Test Centre. For now here are our impressions based on a demonstration staged by Panasonic.

Amazing crisp and black picture

Limited Settings, Hard drive recording is annoying

Great TV

Hard to get best picture settings

Picture Quality

Audio

Best Blacks, Great Picture, easy menus, sound is good, 3D Picture is excellent, the size of this Big TV is easy to watch

Media Server fiddly to setup and then it does not play AVI, QT, VOB and WMA files. MKV has been the only file I have it plays

Big and beautiful

Jealous and disgruntled ex Pana and now (laugh) LG lovers