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TODAY ONLY, A 42? Panasonic Plasma HDTV for $599. I have one of these in the bedroom (I think I pai?

By Glenn Reynolds

TODAY ONLY, A 42″ Panasonic Plasma HDTV for $599. I have one of these in the bedroom (I think I paid $999) and overall I think I like it better than the much more expensive JVC I have in the basement. It’s nearly as good on the HDTV channels, and it handles non-HDTV channels much better for some reason.

UPDATE: Reader Matthew Davidian writes:

We got the same model a month and a half ago from Amazon and we are extremely pleased with it.

You didn’t mention one of the best things about that model: it plays Netflix, Amazon VOD, You Tube, etc.) right out of the box, so you don’t need a separate Roku box. Although we still have a Western Digital TV Live Plus hooked up to ours to play back DVD’s from our library which we have ripped to a 2TB Western Digital network drive.

Between NetFlix and the Western Digital, our cable box has been feeling left out recently.

We paid $800 for it in December when it was on sale, at $600 it is a steal. I wish I had another room where I needed a TV so I could buy another one!

I must have the older model, then, or else I need to read the owner’s manual . . .

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 10, 2011 (boomark / email).