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Panasonic TH-P50VT30A

My Panasonic VT20 got a vertical green line on the screen. Took it into warranty shop and was told they wont replace the panel, instead will get a new tv. Great i thought thinking i was going to get the same model but new! 2 weeks later got a call to say come pick up the new tv. Arrived to find the new VT30 waiting for me. Fantastic. Installed and setup the tv asap. Few things that stuck me as being good. 1. Remote has a dedicated 3D button. No more digging in the menus to change it. 2. Remote has a last view button.. this will let you cycle back and forth from 2 channels or 2 av inputs. 3. Tested the tv via a upnp share on win 7. It played back AVCHD form a sony camera like the VT20 did and some AVI files fine. On a whim i pressed play on a MKV file and to my delight it played back.. tested a few more and all played back! Fantastic looks like Panasonic at long last has caught up with Samsung in the media dept. 4. Again on a whim, ran windows media player and t...

Windows Live Messenger: flash player required

Kept getting an error with WLM asking to install the latest flash. Even thou i had the latest flash installed, it was only on Firefox. So fired up the seldom used IE9 and went to the adobe web site and installed flash. Problem gone now.