I have the predecessor of the Panasonic you are looking at, a TC-P65VT30, which was manufactured August 2011. I can tell you that mine is surprisingly quiet. I had a Samsung 58b860y2fxza prior to this that was unbelievably obnoxious, to the point I had to turn it off to communicate on my morning 75m net and it splattered other bands too. I could actually here the noise pattern change in response to changes in the raster on the TV.
I was lucky, in an RF sense, my disabled son cracked the screen on the Samsung, forcing me to re-evaluate brands. Since I put way through college fixing TV's among other things, I have pretty extensive contacts with people still in that business, and they all gave the nod to Panasonic, when it comes to Plasma, from reliability, to picture, to support from the manuf. After seeing both companies, I tend to agree. I wrote Samsung about the issue requesting they address the issue and they didn't even respond. The servicers don't like Samsung either, so steer clear of them. You will absolutely love the Panny set. As a past servicer with very picky eyes that like the CRT look, you will not have any regrets, unless you are looking for super bright LCD fluorescent display, which to me is not the (natural) look I like. I will also note that both sets were treated with the large ferrite cores K9YC did the group buy on a while back and I haven't done a before after cores on the Panasonic, as I just put them on when I installed it. I did do a before after on the Samsung and although it helped the Samsung was so bad that I couldn't totally suppress it. For those not familiar with the Model numbers, the sets we are talking about are/were the flagship models, so mileage may vary on lower end models. Kirby - AF6OP > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 & Plasma Question > > >> We are now in the market for another TV, and have been looking at a very nice Panasonic 65" Plasma set, model TC-P65VT50. I've already told the Best Buy sales manager that IF we do buy it and IF it causes QRN to the HF bands, it is coming right back. He said that is no problem. But, if I can query this group to see if anyone else has one of these TV's, I may be able to avert a lot of work ahead of time. Our second choice would be an LED set, but after seeing plasma and LED side by side, playing the exact same content, I want to stay with plasma - BUT ONLY IF IT DOESN"T SCREW UP THE K3!!! >> ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
