Panasonic CT-27SL14 27" Flat Screen TV

by Panasonic

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 30.7 x 23.2 inches ; 109 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 109 pounds
• Shipping: This item can only be shipped to the 48 contiguous states. We regret it cannot be shipped to APO/FPO, Hawaii, Alaska, or Puerto Rico.
• ASIN: B0001WNNQU
• Item model number: ct27sl14
• Batteries: 2 AA batteries required. (included)
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The CT-27SL14 27-inch flat-screen television from Panasonic combines an incredibly sharp, realistic picture with virtual surround sound, all in an attractive silver chassis. The CT-27SL14 features Panasonic's PureFlat TV screen, a screen design that reduces glare and reflection, and maximizes the viewing angles in your TV room. This home-theater friendly television offers a clean, crisp image with a minimum of distortion from both traditional analog TV signals and digital video sources.

The CT-27SL14 features video picture memory settings that easily enhance your viewing experience. The settings can bring out the ideal visuals for movies, sporting events, and more. In fact, the CT-27SL14 includes a number of resources to improve your picture quality automatically, such as a 3-line digital comb filter that improves on-screen clarity, and an edge correction feature that sharpens the outlines of on-screen objects.

A great picture deserves great sound, and the CT-27SL14 gives you rich, virtual surround sound. The CT-27SL14 features a high-definition sound processor that clarifies the intelligibility of voices on TV and generates a more realistic sound for music as well. The sound control feature will keep you from having to reach for the remote during commercials by smoothing out dramatic volume shifts.

The easy-to-use CT-27SL14 features a broad array of television essentials, such as a sleep timer, auto channel set-up, last channel viewed memory, and parental controls. The on-screen menu allows you to refine the set-up by setting recording preferences and preferred channels. The multi-lingual menu lets you control the TV in your choice of English, French or Spanish.

Getting started with the CT-27SL14 is easy. Connecting to an antenna or cable is quick work, and a front panel composite A/V input makes it easy to connect a camcorder, video game, DVD player or VCR to the TV. On the rear panel, you'll find S-Video and component inputs as well as two additional composite inputs.

What's in the Box
CT-27SL14 TV, remote control, and owner's manual.

Product Description

Pure Flat 27" Diagonal Stereo Television with Dome Sound

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars You can do better for about the same price., December 11, 2004

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AZee (Pennsylvania, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Panasonic CT-27SL14 27" Flat Screen TV (Electronics)

I bought this TV a few months ago and while it isn't a horrible set I think I could have got a better one for a little bit more money.

The picture is sharp and clear and the visibility from the side is fine, but it seems to be a bit dark to me. I have the brightness turned all the way up and it is still very hard to make out some dark scenes in TV shows, movies, and video games. Also it seems to take an unusual amount of time to start up when you turn it on and change channels while surfing.. nothing major though.

I don't have any problems with the sound. It gets a bit dead sounding when the volume is turned way up, but I hardly ever have to raise it above 10 on the volume bar (it goes up to 63)- so unless you really like to crank you TV you probably won't notice it.

I would plan on buying a better remote, I can't stand the one Panosonic includes with it.. it is very cheesey feeling and I can't stand the circle they use for the channel and volume controls.

Overall I don't regret buying it, but I do think I could have done better.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Never buy a TV from Amazon, February 26, 2005

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A. Dashiell (Tucson, AZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Panasonic CT-27SL14 27" Flat Screen TV (Electronics)

If I could I would give this set no stars. We needed to get a TV delivered to our house due to the fact that we both own sedans. None of the big box stores would deliver in this size so we tried amazon. The TV arrived via frieght eagle on a pallet they brought it inside and offered to take the box. I said better leave it incase we need to return it little did I know. So I unpacked the TV and it looked fine. Once I plugged it in the sound works but no picture at all. I tried on all inputs and nothing the tube stayed black.

Then the customer service nightmare began. Amazon is clearly the worst in the industry. We sent an email it was not returned until 48 hrs later. We called the hard to find 800 # (search google) and they that the set was unreturnable and we would have to hope for the best with panasonic. The phone person was rude and suggested that it was our fault that we did not let the untrained shippers install the TV. They also suggested that we must be unable to read despite the fact that we purchased the set online. We hope you read this and never order a TV from Amazon.

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars too long black blink between channels and video too dark, October 4, 2004

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N. Haneef - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Panasonic CT-27SL14 27" Flat Screen TV (Electronics)

1. My first problem with this Panasonic TV -- CT-27SL14 27" Flat Screen -- is that when I move from one channel to another, the black screen between channels is much too long for me to tolerate. For people who like to do channel surfing I think this behavior will be annoying. I have returned the TV. When I went back to the store, I tested Sony and Toshiba for this. The Sony black inter-channel blink is almost insignifcant; Toshiba is longer than Sony but much shorter than Panasonic. I can't believe that some people can tolerate the black coffee break that Panasonic takes between channels.

2. The Panasonic picture has an overall darkish quality: although whites and light colors are very bright, dark colors are very dark. I tried to adjust video, picture etc. but I can't get rid of the overall darkness.

Since I had purchased the 4-year protection plan, I had the BestBuy technician come over to take a look and he said that, given my taste, I would never be happy with that TV. So I have returned it and decided to get a Toshiba.