Comments on: Panasonic Launch New Freesat TV Range

By: Jerry Goff

Jerry Goff — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:48:00 +0000

I would like to know the technical difference between the TX-L37V20B (UK model) and the TX-L37V20E (European model). Both must have the same DVB-S tuner, and of course they have a different mains plug.

What I want to do is load the TX-L37V20B firmware (v2.702) onto the TX-L37V20E, instead of v2.505. To enable Freesat EPG, etc.

By: Raja

Raja — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:03:23 +0000

So can I now (May) buy a Panasonic with Freeview, Freesat and iPlayer or do I still have to wait?

Who is selling them?

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:15:01 +0000

iPlayer works great on my Humax for a couple of months. I had told my father who bought a Panasonic TV with freesat to expect iPlayer to appear on this, but no sign of it yet.

The post above is somewhat negative. Is iPlayer not coming to Panasonic Freesat HD after all?

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:54:19 +0000

Don’t bother buying a Panasonic Freestat/Freeview TV if you want iPlayer though.

Despite all the talk about iPlayer on their current Freestat TV’s they have never released it and won’t even discuss it with customers.

Of course iPlayer wasn’t my only consideration in buying my current Panasonic (of which I have 3 round the house!). But it was a factor, and something I was looking forward to using.

It’s more the lack of trust I now have in Panasonic as a brand. Made me much more wary of how much support they will give. What about software updates to the sets for Freeview and Freesat? Can you trust them to actually release them, or fix a problem if it occured?

By: CISCO

CISCO — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:25:23 +0000

Panasonic’s 2010 models worth the wait.
G20 appears to have previous V10 spec and more.
Pity the USB recording will be encrypted.

http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/ TX-P42G20 “now in UK” order on line.
JL – £1099.99) and (Comet £1039.99 with £60 voucher) also

http://www.digitaldirect.co.uk/ TX-P50G20B – £1299.00 for late March.

By: Lurence Upton

Lurence Upton — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:05:59 +0000

Thanks Al (12)

By: Ste Rush

Ste Rush — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:05:49 +0000

Al Catraz (16)

Strange that as I to have a Panny TV, Bluray and TZ7 and I did send there technical team a question about whether my TV would play AVCHD files from the SD card slot on the TV. I got a reply nearly 3 months later stating…NO which was correct….I was lucky as the Bluray player has an SD slot and that accepted that format…pheww! I take your point about there customer services.

By: Rozzo

Rozzo — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:57:22 +0000

froggie and shane
indeed shane says its the mpeg4 incompatibility which is another HD related acronym.
btw, another thing to consider, will the epg work in Ireland or France?

By: Rozzo

Rozzo — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:54:25 +0000

Froggie-
tricky question because Pansonics products are usually very tightly spec’d to the market they are sold in. So, existing freesat tvs with SD freeview are already available and so if these work in France for TNT then the new ones will too in SD but French terrestrial digital HD has already I think been running using the DVB-T standard rather than the DVB-T2 standard which the UK is starting to use for HD. So I imagine you would have to find out whether the HD element which I think uses the acronym H264 will work in DVB-T mode. It’s too technical for me but you are right to be careful and wanting research definitely required.

Others – yes overall the products from P are very good and I am happy with the primary functionalities of my 81 series freesat tv. I am not fussed about missing out on you tube etc additions which appeared in the 10/15 series but am fussed to get the i-player which was a promised feature from the outset.
I had also hoped that at some point they would add diseqc for multiple satellite users but it was a hope rather than an expectation.

I will definitely have a look at the new 20 series specs/manuals when they get published.

By: shane

shane — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:53:09 +0000

@Froggie. You are correct. The French DTT system is the same as the Irish one. The Current lg and Sony freesat tvs will also work. The current Panasonic freesat tvs do not because of a software issue with them not recognising mpeg4 dtt transmissions.