Panasonic TC-26LX50 26-Inch Flat Panel LCD TV

by Panasonic

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 26 x 5.5 x 19.4 inches ; 37.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 43 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B00092DAEW
• Item model number: TC-26LX50
• Batteries: 2 AA batteries required. (included)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #161,368 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Save space and enjoy the vivid, lifelike colors and movement of high-definition television with the 26-inch Panasonic TC-26LX50 LCD TV. It features a widescreen aspect ratio (16:9) with a width-to-height ratio similar to movie theater screens, providing a theater-like experience at home, and offers a maximum resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. It comes with a built-in NTSC, 181-channel tuner, and requires a separate ATSC tuner to receive HD signals. Simply connect an HDTV tuner or cable box and experience high definition broadcasts with amazing color and detail. It's compatible with 1080i, 720p, and 480p signals, and your DVDs will look incredible when played back from a progressive scan DVD player at 480p.

Fast pixel response time is essential to accurate image reproduction on LCD displays. This LCD TV features an impressive 14ms response speed, helping to ensure excellent detail and smooth motion during high-speed scene transitions. It also offers an extremely wide viewing angle of 170 degrees, so whether you're right in front of the TV or sitting off to the side, you'll still get great image quality. With the motion adaptive 3D Y/C digital comb filter (which separates the color signals to minimize dot crawl and blurred edges), you'll see sharp, focused images regardless of their source. Other features include an 800:1 contrast ratio and a 450 cd/m2 (candela per square meter) brightness rating.

This TV features four built-in speakers with 10-watts per channel and stereo output for connection to a home theater audio system. It features the following video and audio connections:

• Composite AV In (RCA): 3 (1 front)
• Composite AV Out (RCA): 1
• S-Video In: 3 (1 front)
• Component Video In: 2
• HDMI In: 1
• RF In: 1
• Headphone: 1

The HDMI connection offers exceptional video and audio quality with a single quick-disconnect connector. It supports multi-channel digital audio transmissions and component video color spacing for true rendering of HD video. HDMI supports the HDCP copy protection standard, allowing transmission of copy-protected digital content to your display. The video portion of HDMI is also backwards-compatible with DVI-HDCP devices using a special cable adapter.

What's in the Box
TC-26LX50 TV, remote control, batteries, printed instructions

Product Description

The TC26LX50 gives you high definition 1080i and 720p display capability, along with advanced HDMI one-cable connectivity. Four built-in speakers provide realistic virtual surround sound, while a host of advanced features like a motion-adaptive 3D-Y/C digital comb filter, advanced LCD artificial intelligence, and 3D color management ensure a terrific picture.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

61 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Picture and Sound, September 30, 2005

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Vimalathithan Krishnan (Santa Clara, California United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Panasonic TC-26LX50 26-Inch Flat Panel LCD TV (Electronics)

This is my first LCD HDTV Monitor. I bought this for watching mostly my basic cable channels and DVD movies.

I'm glad I got this one, I have read reviews about other display technologies, finally I settled with LCD (considering the LCD TVs are within the screen size range I'm looking for). I had many visits to Bestbuy and Circuit city to pick the right TV with best picture and sound. Circuit City has better choices. I did a close comparison between many brands (Sony and Samsung and Panasonic next to each other), I'm impressed with Panasonic's true color with more depth in dark scenes. Also because I have been happy customer of Panasonic ever since. Finally, I bought Panasonic 26" LCD TV from online, with better deal.

It may be immature to comment, because its been just 2 days I watched TV (with no HD connection, so far I have connected only to cable TV). I just want to give my first impressions. the TV looks great, even with 4 speakers below screen, the surround sound and stereo is awesome. The picute quality is great with channels such as CNN, FOX News, TNT, Discovery, NGC, E!, etc., (as long as broadcast is good), considering this, I'm sure this TV will show extraordinary performance after connecting HD source, as I saw in Circuit city.

I came to know, just after buying TV, that DVD players with HD upconversion (cost around $200) is required to get DVD movies of HD quality. (this information is not disclosed by retailers or web, until we explore).

so far so good!!!

I highly recommend this TV, because of HDMI, contract ratio, HDTV 1080i/720p/480p, 16:9 Aspect Ratio, Motion Adaptive 3D-Y/C Digital Comb Filter and 1366 x 768 pixels.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Widescreen LCD TV, December 21, 2005

By 

J. Chong (chicago, illinois United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Panasonic TC-26LX50 26-Inch Flat Panel LCD TV (Electronics)

I took a chance with an LCD display and picked Panasonic because of their good reputation with television technologies. I work in the graphic design field and work with LCD displays and thought their performance is great especially with color.

The size I needed for the bedroom was between 23-26 inches. I settled for the 26" widescreen model which would replace a great but small 20" 4:3 Sony cathode ray tv. Once I received the TV, I was very pleased with its size and how it still fit my bedroom entertainment stand. I also got my cable box replaced the next day with a high definition dvr box to showcase the new LCD TV. The picture with high def channels is beautiful and detailed. Colors are rich and vibrant and make channel content look hyper realistic. The analog channels also don't look that bad and I believe the LCD TV makes them look better.

The problems I had with this TV was with color and brightness . Color is very important to me especially because of my work in design. So it took me a few days to get the correct color setting for each input (DVD and HD cable box). The obstacles I faced dealt with selecting appropriate back light, picture, brightness, and color temp setting. I had to choose picture settings that will make the TV from looking too bland and flat from not having enough black level and brightness in the picture. You also have to consider turning down the brightness or the picture gets too washed out and can actually hurt your eyes. High brightness levels have caused irritation to my eyes from long hours working in front of my LCD monitor at work. So take precaution.

Other than modifying the settings for the TV which took a few days of experimenting. The Panasonic has really pleased me with its great picture detail, design, and relatively small size. I would highly recommend this product! Also, Panasonic is offering a rebate of 150 dollars off for this model.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars good choice for a smaller flat panel tv, April 25, 2006

By 

Ellen (Redondo Beach, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Panasonic TC-26LX50 26-Inch Flat Panel LCD TV (Electronics)

I am very pleased with the purchase of this tv. The number of features far exceed the competition, and the quality of the sound and picture leave the competition in the dust.

Four speakers below the screen enable this 26" flat panel to fit into spaces other units only dream about.

Brilliant picture quality on all settings, though I use "normal" to save the life of the bulb. Imagine, a replaceable bulb! Suddenly, this tv is a non-disposable, again, far better than the competition.

Easy to set up, not too heavy, brilliant picture quality. Not much more you could ask for.