Panasonic CT-36HL43 36" HD-Ready TV with PureFlat Screen

by Panasonic

Product Details

Product Manual [2.01mb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 247 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: B00009YAHO
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #318,997 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Equipped with high native resolution and the technology to maximize its picture quality from any input, Panasonic's Tau Series PureFlat CT-36HL43 is a model of audio-visual excellence. The perfect flatness of the set's 36-inch, 4:3 aspect-ratio picture tube enhances contrast while reducing glare and reflections. Even better: its HDTV/EDTV display capability (1080i, 480p) lets you view high-definition or enhanced-definition TV programming from an external DTV set-top box with an ATSC receiver or progressive-scan DVD player. Built-in image scaling adapts 1080i signals to the set's native 800-line resolution, and a DVI-HDCP digital input accepts uncompressed, copy-protected digital content from DTV receivers and set-top boxes for stunning image fidelity and clarity.

Two-tuner picture-in-picture with split-screen display lets you view two programs at once by dividing the screen in half down the middle. Each program is shown at full height, with one program on the left side and the other on the right. High-quality, 8-bit P-I-P Image Processing provides 256 levels of gray from black to white in the inset picture for finer image detail.

Progressive Cinema Scan (3:2 pulldown) provides faithful reproduction of film-based materials. DVD mastering introduces a common distortion when adjusting 24-frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video; Progressive Cinema Scan digitally corrects this distortion, removing the redundant information to display a film-frame-accurate picture.

A motion-adaptive 3D Y/C digital comb filter displays bright colors and action scenes with incredible clarity by minimizing the "color rainbow effect" in closely spaced patterns, compensating for the motion that occurs between fields. Included 10-bit, 60 MHz analog-to-digital image processing boosts conventional grayscale from 256 to 1024, to deliver four times as many shades of black and white.

Digital velocity-modulated scanning is advanced circuitry along the neck of the CRT that senses transitions from black to white in the video signal. The black-and-white portions of the signal are sped up and slowed down, respectively, resulting in sharp black-to-white transitions. For a more filmlike picture when watching movies, you may want to selectively turn off this circuitry.

Other picture enhancements include a wideband video amplifier, horizontal and vertical edge correction, video noise reduction, Artificial Intelligence Picture settings, and a Progressive Scan Doubler function that upconverts 480i signals to seamless 480p resolution.

The set's ample connections also include four composite-video, three S-video inputs (including one each on the set's front panel for easy camcorder or game console hookup), and two sets of high-resolution component-video inputs.

The set uses three speakers: a stereo pair plus a built-in passive subwoofer for extra bass heft. The speakers get 15 watts per channel (x 2), and the set also offers fixed- and variable-level audio outputs, Artificial Intelligence Sound Control (to prevent unwanted variances in sound level), BBE High-Definition Sound (improves speech intelligibility and restores musical dynamic range), and BBE ViVA HD3D simulated stereo sound (which works with both stereo and monaural programs).

Other features include video-input and channel labeling, a lighted-disk universal remote control (which can be programmed to control many current video and audio devices), and a headphone jack (for private listening or late-night viewing).

What's in the Box
TV, remote control, remote batteries, and a user's manual.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not one problem. Great Tube!, March 9, 2007

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Kai Vilhelmsen "Voxboy" (Spring Hill, Tn) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Panasonic CT-36HL43 36" HD-Ready TV with PureFlat Screen (Electronics)

I have owned this television for 2 years now. Purchased from CompUsa for 999. I have never had an issue with it. I utilize the dvi for my dvd player.. Very crisp Picture, Lots of choices for image, and though it is a heavy beast, I have been very pleased with it. No complaints whatsoever. Maybe I'm just blessed, but this has been one fine machine

10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor Quality, April 22, 2004

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This review is from: Panasonic CT-36HL43 36" HD-Ready TV with PureFlat Screen (Electronics)

I bought this TV directly from Panasonic. Got a great deal, the picture is sharp although there is some shadowing I can't get rid of completely.

I would not recommend this TV however. I have owned my TV for 11 weeks and it has not worked for 6 weeks of that time. It has spent more time being repaired than it has working. The TV has had multiple failures and Panasonic refuses to replace it. They want to continue fixing my current, obviously seriously flawed TV. At a very slow pace might I add. Panasonic customer service has been horrible, I would not recommend this TV or any Panasonic TV to anyone.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy this TV, November 3, 2008

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B. Charley - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Panasonic CT-36HL43 36" HD-Ready TV with PureFlat Screen (Electronics)

I bought this TV in Feb 04. Used it weekends only for 3 years, and fulltime 4th year. It quit working Nov 08. No power from remote or front button. Extremely heavy and bulky to move around. I should have read all the negative internet chatter on this model and bought LCD.