{"id":5956,"date":"2013-07-01T11:30:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T01:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=5956"},"modified":"2013-06-30T18:02:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T08:02:13","slug":"panasonic-viera-th-p55vt60a-plasma-3d-television-unboxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/panasonic-viera-th-p55vt60a-plasma-3d-television-unboxing\/","title":{"rendered":"Panasonic Viera TH-P55VT60A Plasma 3D Television Unboxing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I decided it was time to upgrade from the <a title=\"Panasonic Viera TH-P50VT20A Plasma 3DTV Review | Boydo's Tech Talk\" href=\"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/panasonic-viera-th-p50vt20a-plasma-3dtv-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">Panasonic VT20A plasma television which I reviewed here<\/a>\u00a0and recently it arrived. However, I had to wait until last weekend to unbox it given that the process does end up taking up a lot of room and needed some help in filming it (I didn&#8217;t think a &#8220;Blair Witch Project&#8221; type of result would have worked).<\/p>\n<p>Originally, I had my heart set non the ZT60 but after finding out that it wasn&#8217;t going to be available in Australia (very sad panda) I fell back to the VT60A.\u00a0I opted for the entry level 55-inch model of the VT60A which is a small upgrade from the 50-inch VT20A.<\/p>\n<p>So why did I think it was time to upgrade?<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, it came down to the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 11.988636016845703px;\">with the approach of OLED displays I thought it was a good opportunity to get the latest in plasma televisions to see us through the infancy of OLED in the mass market,<\/span><\/li>\n<li>I was intrigued to try out the vastly improved connectivity options including those involving smartphones and tablets in the form of Swipe and Share 2.0 and DLNA,<\/li>\n<li>improved app performance, voice recognition, home screen capabilities and a built in webcam (handy when I fancy conversing with my wife when she is overseas),<\/li>\n<li>bigger televisions are awesome \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s the unboxing video for your viewing pleasure.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"760\" height=\"452\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UMb7aBLh5Lk\" frameborder=\"0\" type=\"text\/html\"><\/iframe>\n<p>if you&#8217;ve got questions for me to include in the preview video leave a comment below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I decided it was time to upgrade from the Panasonic VT20A plasma television which I reviewed here\u00a0and recently it arrived. However, I had to wait until last weekend to unbox it given that the process does end up taking up a lot of room and needed some help in filming it (I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/panasonic-viera-th-p55vt60a-plasma-3d-television-unboxing\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,328,385,1067,18],"tags":[2254,487,1039,1068,2357,2321,2047,884,1069,2080,2331],"class_list":["post-5956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d","category-display","category-imaging","category-plasma","category-technology","tag-3d","tag-dlna","tag-oled","tag-panasonic","tag-plasma","tag-television","tag-th-p55vt60a","tag-unboxing","tag-viera","tag-vt20a","tag-youtube","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Panasonic-Insider-Logo.png?fit=250%2C250&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}