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Panasonic VIERA TC-P42S30 42-Inch 1080p Plasma HDTV

Panasonic VIERA TC-P42S30 42-Inch 1080p Plasma HDTV

Internet-Ready Television

Internet-ready TVs use your broadband connection to deliver dynamic content, whether it's streaming video from Netflix, new music from Pandora, or a quick glance at today's weather forecast.
Although there is overlap, each manufacturer offers a unique bundle of free or paid services, including streaming video and music, social networking apps, online photo galleries, news and financial updates, weather info, sports scores, and a variety of other smartphone-like applications.
Manufacturers continue to add new content to their offerings, keeping customers current through firmware updates, and making a bit of research a prudent step in your buying decision.
Learn more about Internet TVs, how they work, what services are offered by different manufacturers, and exactly what you'll need to get started at our Internet TV 101 customer center.




(March 2011)


VIERA Tools
The VIERA Tools user interface makes it easy to access and understand key functions. Simply press a function button, and an explanation appears on the screen. Keep the button pressed to activate the function immediately.
VIERA Image Viewer
Equipped with an SD card slot, VIERA makes it easy to view full-HD photos and motion images that you shot yourself. Simply insert the SD memory card into the slot, and you're ready to view your photos and full-HD videos on the big screen. You can make your slide shows even more impressive by adding background music and attractive frames. With VIERA's big screen and superb image quality, family and friends will love sharing your memories.
Game Mode
Games are much more fun when there's no lag in operation. VIERA automatically chooses settings that provide the optimal image, so you get super-fast response and no delays. Even dark scenes with delicately rendered details are beautiful and easy to see.
600Hz Sub-field Drive
600Hz technology lets you view superb full-HD motion and still images with 1080 lines of resolution. For even greater clarity with motion images, Panasonic uses its own unique image-analysis technology. This technology converts the motion in each scene into data. And each frame is practically displayed for a shorter length of time than in previous systems, to reduce aftereffects

Deep Color
VIERA faithfully reproduces all the colors inherent in today's most advanced image sources, such as Blu-ray Discs and DVDs. Use an HDMI cable to connect VIERA to the playback device, and you'll enjoy the kind of rich, vibrant colors that make viewing such a pleasurable experience

International CES Innovations 2011 Design and Engineering Award in the Eco Design and Sustainable Technology product category.
Long Panel Life, Up to 100,000 Hours
One important way consumers can protect the environment is by choosing high-quality products and taking care of them so they last for a long time. A high-quality VIERA HDTV can help. Thanks to a newly designed phosphor process and rear panel process, our plasma panels last for up to 100,000 hours before the brightness decreases by half. That's more than 30 years of viewing 8 hours a day.
Mercury and Lead Free Plasma Display Panel
Panasonic is committed to making our products more friendly to the environment. In line with this commitment, all VIERA plasma display panels are free of both lead and mercury. This reduces impact on the environment years down the road when the TV is recycled or retired from use.
x.v.Color
VIERA models with x.v.Color compatibility reproduce all of the vibrant color in images recorded by wide x.v.Color gamut compatible camcorders. These rich, vivid images are a feast for the eyes.
EASY IPTV
Simply press the VIERA Tools button on the remote control to directly access a variety of Internet services. Enjoy online music and movies with ease.
DLNA / Wi-Fi Ready
Connect a DLNA-compatible VIERA and DLNA-compatible AV equipment to your home network, and you can watch movies, listen to music, and view photos from any room in the house. VIERA's Wi-Fi capability gives you even more layout flexibility. *Must have wireless USB adapter for Wi-Fi, such as DY-WL10
Key Specifications
Series: S30
Screen type: Plasma
Screen size: 41.6 inches
Native resolution: 1,920 x 1,080 pixels
Shades of Gradation:6,144 equivalent (WSXGA)
Moving Picture Resolution: 900 lines
HDTV display capability: 1080p, 1080i, 720p
EDTV display capability: 480p
Speakers: 2 full range, 20W total power,Surround Sound
Image viewer:Yes (AVCHD/MPEG2/JPEG/MP3 playback)
Aspect control: 4:3, Zoom, Full, Just, H-Fill
Optional wall-mounting bracket: TY-WK4P1RW
Multi-lingual menu: English/Spanish/French
Energy Star qualified: Yes
Connections
HDMI: 3 (1 side)
Component (Y, PB, PR): RCA x 1
Composite A/V: RCA x 1
USB: 2
LAN Port: 1
Dimensions
TV with stand: 26.6" x 40.2" x 12.6" (H x W x D); 49.6 pounds
TV without stand: 25.2" x 40.2" X 2.8" (H x W x D); 41.9 pounds
What size TV should you get?


Panasonic 2011 Plasma HDTV Comparison
Series:GT30ST30S30X3
Models:50", 55", 60", 65"42", 46", 50", 55", 60", 65"42", 46", 50", 60"42", 46", 50"
Full HD 1080p--
HD 720p------
3D Ready----
Motion Picture Resolution1080 Lines1080 Lines900 Lines720 Lines
THX Mode------
VIERA Connect----
EASY IPTV----
DLNA----
Wireless LANReadyReadyReadyReady
Ethernet
HDMI4322
Component (Y/Pb/Pr)1111
Composite A/V1111
Digital Audio OutputOpticalOpticalOpticalOptical
PC (DSub)1------
USB 2.0 Port3222
MP3 Playback
JPEG Playback
MPEG Video Playback


What's in the Box
Panasonic S30 series Plasma HDTV, removable stand, remote control (with batteries), operating instructions, quick start guide

Halves Pt 1 – In time

‘So, how long has it been?’ he asks. I think I see a small smirk skim across his lips, but then maybe I’m just looking for it.

‘A year, a year this Thursday actually’ my answer is as offhand as I can manage, calmly shrugging off 12 months, a year: the year that things changed.

‘Man’ he replies ‘that must be serious, must really like her?’

‘Yeh, she’s cool, nice you know? We get on’

It sounds like somebody else speaking. These plodding words are mine, the feelings they are describing; the bundle of memories that they are dancing around is far more. I make it sound like just another relationship, just another boy and girl shacking up and shutting down. But then, that’s exactly what it is, just another boy and just another girl. Just another gentle connection between two lives, a turn of the head, a catch of the breath and all the nerves and mistakes that follow. But for all that magic, are we not just another facsimile? We have our own quirks and deviations, but a facsimile nonetheless. But no, sadly, this one was different.

This time the discoveries did not have the gentle glow of comfort or the pulse of lust around them. We had our song, we found our rhythm and we claimed our special places but for all that, the world never got easier. It never became any happier or safer. Not for us. We were different.

‘So, is it love then?’ he asks with a laugh in his voice. His laugh grates but I know he has felt the pain of all those tangled memories and plans being wrestled from his grasp. He laughs because he doesn’t want to know.

‘That would be telling’ I say ‘I told you, she’s nice, we get on, have a laugh…’

‘Sex is good…’ he interrupts. I say nothing; my smile does it all.

He wants to press for more information but its too early, the daylight is still daubing bored shadows on the pub floor. The decor, all dark leather and tat is geared for the night, not this sloppy gloaming. Us being here, this place, it all feels out of step with the workaday tide that is lapping against the windows. It’s been a while since I swayed with those currents. It’s been a while since I did anything.

We sit in silence for a while. Memories and nostalgia, sometimes shared, sometimes unsaid carry us through the spaces that would be awkward with anyone else. Still, I used to find this a lot easier. I used to find most things a lot easier. I never had to struggle with the clutter and form that is my life, never had that guilty feeling that I was sinking below the waterline when I really should be swimming for shore.

We take our time and share our stories. Polite tales of work and gaudy tales of home are conjured up as we relax into the night. The evening has passed, night now swaddles us in a familiar, homely gloom and as the drinks flow, the stories become more personal, the words find their meaning. Even now though, even with this freedom to speak, I will not, cannot talk about this year. Here with someone who knows who I was, knows what I could be, I still cannot tell the tale of what happened to that boy I left behind, that life I can no longer live. I find myself trapped behind a smile, pulling just enough of the strings to keep the laughter going and the words flowing.

So instead we trade thoughts on films and books, swap musical tips and football banter. From time to time we pick on the flaws of our friends, drawing them to the surface and then letting them drift back down again before the words become too harsh. We talk, and we chat but I never say a word.

Eventually I am asked again about her.

‘So what made you change your mind? What happened to the great bachelor boy? The guy who was done with relationship and free to rule the world?’

He remembers. He remembers the empty calendars and endless nights. He remembers those girls, how many at one time? Four? Where did I get the energy and why? He remembers swagger and smile. He remembers a city where I roamed empty handed looking for a toy or an adventure, but never anything more. At least that is what he remembers.

The truth is always harsher; the lives of others carry a glamour that reality would never allow. Behind it all was the corrosive hum of a nightmare that was peeling away at the corners of both my family and myself. Of course, my answer to his question gives none of this away, as ever, I hide it from him, or hide from it?

‘Well, you know’ I say ‘girl meets boy, girl is cool, blah, blah, blah’

‘Must have been quite something, you seemed pretty happy then?’

‘She was, what more can I say? I can’t explain it and yes, I did ask myself the same questions but, sometimes someone comes along and you you’d be stupid not to see where it goes’

‘Fair enough’

His curiosity seems sated for now but deep down, my reply rankles. It’s too shallow to explain why I left those flat summer days of being single and gave my trust away so quickly. Maybe I am with someone because I can’t function without the pleasing glow of having a nice girl on my arm. M

[7:28am]

2008 - Day 8

Yes ladies and gentlemen this is another HDR sunset/sunrise from Ocean Isle, I've taken three of them in the last month and I know there getting old but combined I've had something like 40 favorites on them. But, this will probably be the last one that I do for at least a year because at this point I'm taking pictures for a book and not entirely for me. But who knows, If I get bored I'm sure I'll do it again.

Anyway, I got up this morning way too early, I think there should be a rule somewhere that you can't wake up until after 6, 5:45 comes way too early for normal people to be able to function. There was a huge rush this morning to get out of the house, it didn't really help that I got yelled at for leaving a few bits of trash on the floor. I also had to run out to the car, grab my 18-70mm and my camera, run upstairs take the 18 pictures that it took to get this picture and the other one that I discarded, then pack all of my other things into my bag and run out into the cold wind. Of course in this rush I forgot the laptop, my watch, and the memory card connection piece that would have alowed me to give Noah the pictures that he wanted.

But, I got in the car without realizing all of the things that I'd forgotten, and was unable to sleep during the hour that It took to get to school, because the seat back was straight up because of all of the crap that I had to take with me to school. It's a little crazy really, when you think about it, to have to take my D200 and all of the extraneous crap that went along with that in one bag, my 30 pound bookbag, My 2 notebooks that wouldnt fit in my bookabag and my Canon XH A1 + Tripod and metal case to school. Luckily not every day though.

Once I got to school, dropped all of the extrainious bits off in mrs. Faulks class and came into Mrs. Cullipher's classroom I experience a surge of happiness because Cullipher hadn't gotten there yet and I was 10 minutes late. That could only mean one thing. She wasn't coming! But of course as fate would have it, as soon as I sat down to enjoy the contented feeling of having nothing to do, she through the door!

But who said life was fair?

Before I go on though I'll say that I have nothing against Mrs. Cullipher, she's a great teacher and it's too bad that she's leaving at the end of the month but I think that no matter how good a teacher is and no matter how much you like somebody, you just need a break every once in a while. Working non-stop for weeks and weeks straight is enough to drive one absolutly insane.

But again, she showed up and we read Macbeth for a while. The story is getting alot better and there's alot more suspense now because we're moving to the end of the story but I'm still lost in the dialouge. It's deffinatly not something that I could read by myself, If cullipher wasn't there explaining almost every line then I would have failed every test and quiz. I'm just really glad that we're going to finish it soon.

English ended and we went into Gergles Government class where we spent about half an hour discussing the primaries that had, and were going to take place. It makes for an intresting class because he's a democrat and I'm a republican and I speak up alot in class so we get into it a little. I only wish that I had somebody my age that I could talk like that with, intelligent conversation is not something that is found very easily at Waccamaw Academy. There are others though, like Sarah and Noah. But that's about it. Besides the teachers of course.

I just hope that Hillary Clinton dosen't win the presidncy because America does not need to become a socialist nation. I'm sorry but I like to think that the money that I make will stay my money and I wont have to shell out roughly 60% of my income to fund programs for people that are too lazy to get off their asses and go to work. But please don't get me started on that subject, I'll only tick people off more. Although I think I've already done that judging by what Stefano wrote in the "Who are you voting for" thread in the Teenage Photographers group. And I quote...

"Fuck you, you facist pig!"

Such nice words, arnt they? God I hate people who have no idea what there talking about yet try to pretend they do. But again, that's a looonnnng story.

Anyway, Third period was boring, although I did have noah's computer to mess around with so that made things a little better but not much I did have alot of fudge to give out though which made people become strangly friendly around me.

In math we had a really tough test on finding the radius and center of a circle. I came to the realization about three problem into it that I had no idea what I was doing so, after wracking my brain for some sort of an answer as to how to do it I finally decided that I was going to ignore the way she told us to do it and find another way. It actually worked out really well that I though of that becaues I answered all of the prob