This was an upgrade from a 32" Sony HD CRT television. I have held off for years because of the amount of information to wade through in researching TVs. Do I get plasma, LED, 3d, Smart, curved, now UHD??? My eyesight finally demanded that I get a larger screen and I decided to look for a solid performer of good value. That is exactly what this set turned out to be. I am a videographer and am particular in image quality but in no way am I an expert or patient enough to tediously calibrate a TV. Nonetheless, just to confirm, I used the Avia and AVS HD 709 calibration videos and, to my eye, the image was great right out of the box. Other than image quality, one of the main reasons I purchased the Panasonic was because of its SMART implementation. The device connected immediately to my wireless network and was fairly easy to set up applications like Netflix, YouTube, Rhapsody, Pandora, and Accuweather. The Life Screens and Home Screens are very useful. The Life screen presents a general layout of the time, date, weather, shared notes, TV input. You can create multiple Home screens with template-based layouts featuring apps and TV input. Generally web browsing is far better than I imagined it could be on a TV. I was even able to set up a connection to Picasa Web Albums via the web browser. That is partly because of the second remote which has a "touch pad". You can emulate mouse-like movements across the screen by using gestures on the round touchpad. Clicks are executed by a tap on the touchpad. Less intuitive for me is the web "scrolling" feature which accomplished with a circular gesture. The second remote also offers voice activation. After training your voice, press the microphone button and speak "home screen" and the TV moves to your personal home screen, a tiled view of TV and personally-selected apps. I have built 4 personal screens for each individual in my house that can be launched based on their voice command. (I am not sure of the limit on custom screens). Yes, it's a bit gimmicky, and I do not use it much, but it is a gimmick that is implemented well and actually works! I would use it more if the features on the second remote were built into the primary remote. The other reason that web browsing is relatively functional is because of the Panasonic smartphone app (IOS for me). You can effectively use the your phone to type a Google search or URL and then "Send" it to the TV and the onscreen browser is populated with the content. I can also search for web page or YouTube video on my phone and "Send" the entire page up to the TV. You phone photos and videos can also be easily "swiped" up to the screen. I do not know how these are done on other Smart TVs but I am thrilled at this easy functionality in the Panasonic. The phone app also works as TV remote with most of the important features included across 5 phone screens. DLNA works well and seems to playback most video and audio files. I am streaming mp4 HD movies wirelessly from my PC with no issues. The Media player, which accesses the 2 USB inputs as well as shared network sources, works well. Things I do not like: The off-axis viewing is pretty narrow. It becomes somewhat noticeable maybe 10 degrees off-axis (did not measure) but not annoyingly so. Despite the marketing claims, the motion blur effect is noticeable at times. I have mine set at medium which has been a good compromise between the soap opera effect and reduced motion blur. The remote has 3 buttons - Apps, Home and Input - wrapped closely around the navigation keys (up,down,left,right) and I often errantly press one of them while trying to navigate the web browser or app, which swiftly exits whatever I am doing. There is no way to return to the activity I was working in once this happens. Overall, a good solid performer at a good value with effective and useable Smart features.

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