Panasonic 37" 1080p TV

macman

OP, you asked for an opinion on a Panasonic Freesat TV, but in your later post you mentioned that your parents just wanted Freeview. These are 2 separate things and you can't get Freeview on a Freesat TV.
Freeview is received through an aerial, Freesat is received through a satellite dish.

katies_mum

Opps, am I confusing you all as well as myself. Mum and dad have a box so they can watch other channels.. the box is broken. So they want a telly that will give them these channels from their ariel without buying another box. Does that make sense - but I don`t know what its called. Sorry!

macman

katies_mum wrote: »

Opps, am I confusing you all as well as myself. Mum and dad have a box so they can watch other channels.. the box is broken. So they want a telly that will give them these channels from their ariel without buying another box. Does that make sense - but I don`t know what its called. Sorry!

A box and an aerial equals Freeview. So what they want is a TV with integrated Freeview tuner. A TV with integrated Freesat will only work with a satellite dish to pick up the Freesat service.

AirCooledHeaven

Finally found this deal:

http://eoss.next.co.uk/search?p=Q&ts=sale-v2&w=*&cnt=30&nxti=0&nxtv=000&isort=title+rev&sale=vs15on&images=on&af=cat%3Aelectricals+sub%3Atelevisionsandaudio&div=electricals&group=televisionsandaudio&size=&price=

But previous poster is correct, IF this TV does not have freeview built in, you would need a satellite dish to make use of the built in freesat

aliEnRIK

I thought the Panasonic Freesat tvs ALSO had freeview built in?

macman

aliEnRIK wrote: »

I thought the Panasonic Freesat tvs ALSO had freeview built in?

You could be right, Panasonic website says tuners Freesat +DVB-T.

aliEnRIK

On the flip side ~ if someone definitely doesnt want freesat at all then id suggest one of their freeview ONLY ones as the freesat models are not quite as good picture wise

macman

And a Freesat tuner normally adds a premium of around £150. I'm highly suspicious as to why this model is being discounted by almost 50%. The Viera Freesats have only been out about 4-5 months I think.
It would help if Next actually ID'd the model number properly.

AirCooledHeaven

macman wrote: »

And a Freesat tuner normally adds a premium of around £150. I'm highly suspicious as to why this model is being discounted by almost 50%. The Viera Freesats have only been out about 4-5 months I think.
It would help if Next actually ID'd the model number properly.

It's part of the next 50% off sale, starting saturday apparently, that's why you can't buy it from the website yet I imagine

katies_mum

Thank you all for the advice. Mum and Dad are going to have a look around today (but have promised not to buy one .... just looking!!) think they are not going to try for the Next one as would prefer to see what they are buying (and if they don`t like it when opened it can``t go back).