Norcent PT-425 42" Plasma Flat-Panel HDTV-Ready TV

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Summary: Norcent rocks!
Review: Along with the Norcent Home Theater, it's an awsome addition to our game room.

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Summary: Very Please, Especially for price
Review: I'm not an expert so I'll just say it how it is. This TV was 1600$ off for a Boxing Day sale and cost me 2999$ CAD. When I got home with it and plugged it in, it had a hard time recognizing the component hookup. But I believe it to by my “monster cable” cables. The picture as some other said was a bit dark but I have brightness and contrast set to about 90% and it's perfect. One thing to keep in mind I found that when I plugged in the s-video cable for some reason it would make the screen darker...not sure why myself. I have it on component and then plug in S-Video...goes darker. Anywho I don’t use S-Video because I feel its garbage:) What I also love about the TV is the remote. The setup is nice and the lighting on it is great! It's a VERY bright red and you can easily see what buttons are what when watching your movies in the dark. What don’t I like about the TV? I think the quality could be a bit better but when I was looking at them in the store I ranked it higher than the Sony one sitting beside it. The colors are very nice but slightly more pixilated than some of the other brands. The hookups in the back are nice and well labeled. Also the stand it comes with and the look of the plasma screen itself are very nice. I feel that if you slapped a Sony label on this and jacked up the price 2000+ people would still buy it. (Maybe not the experts, but the avg Joe would just dive for the name) To summaries it all off, I saved myself an easy few 1000 dollars by buying the Norcent, and very happy about it. If you want plasma and want really good quality TV viewing, this is the one that let you do that without taking out a second mortgage:) Plasma screen = Cosmetically nice and visually VERY good as well Connectors = nicely placed connectors Options/remote = Got all your esencial options but not as many if you pay 3000$ more. Remote very nice in the hand well placed button and wonderful bright red light that light up all buttons. 4 stars just because the picture could be more solid and could have more options. But if you want to rank it based on its cost it gets a definite 5/5 if not more. I paid 2300 USD for it and when you sit back and relax...it's picture perfect.

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Summary: Good, but with flaws
Review: I've been very impressed with this Plasma teleevision, the quality is so awesome not to mention the price, I can't wait until the Laker's season starts to watch my games in HDTV. I was so impressed that i decided to buy 2 more before they run out.The quality of the screen is very sharp and clear. I did encounter some setup issues, but i called Tech Support which, may i add, were very helpful and knowledgeable, and they quickly sorted me out.

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Summary: Disappointed!
Review: The price obviously was fairly convincing, however, upon receipt, the display surface looked as though it were a very used product. It lead us to be believe that maybe we had received a refurbished unit. Additionally, the picture was distorted over half of the viewing area to the point where once you try to adust it, it equally distorts the other half of the picture. I also expected a much brighter picture with Plasma as I've seen with other units I've seen in stores, however, even with it brightness maxed out, it was only 50% as bright as those on display in stores. Tech support was of very little help to us to solve any of the problems we exprienced. However, the begged and pleaded with us not to return it as it that's all they've been dealing with-obviously a trend with this company. There was just too many serious issues with this product to accept and it has since been returned. We purchased a 30inch LCD-TV which draws a lot less power and has a much brighter picture.

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Summary: Keep shopping...
Review: Well after determining we wanted to make the plunge into new technology, we took a chance on a product/brand we never heard of. Wow, was that a mistake! In fact, 1 star is probably too generous in this case. Everything from poor set-up information, very poor users manual, very-very poor tech support people who we could barely understand, to the most important disappointment...poor-fuzzy image quality of the product. We tried all the suggestions provided to improve the picture, however, we had a far better one with our big screen-projection TV prior. Needless to say, we exercised our consumer rights and returned the product. We'll instead take a closer look at brands and products we've heard of and used before such as Sony, Envision, Samsung, etc. Keep shopping.