Typical price: £50,000
What is it: 103-inch plasma screen. No, seriously
What we think: Just a dream for most, but a cracking option for the home cinema jet set
Panasonic TH-103PF9 Review
Reviewed on: 23 October 2007
Weaknesses
The 103PF9's biggest positive, its sheer size, is also ironically its biggest negative -- partly because of the sheer unlikelihood of most households being able to accommodate it and partly because it makes the thing phenomenally tough to install. During our tests it took five men and a special crane to get the 220kg behemoth into position on its stand. And that was on the ground floor. If you've got any stairs to negotiate, or want to wall mount it, then heaven help you.
The £50,000 price is also clearly a major stumbling block. Few of us would ever be able to contemplate spending that sort of money on anything less than a house.
Other more prosaic problems with the 103PF9 include the fact that it doesn't come with any TV tuners built in. This is probably quite a predictable shortcoming, actually -- given its inevitable mercilessness with revealing any flaws in standard-definition sources, and the occasional tendency of orange or green tones to slightly over-dominate the colour palette.
Conclusion
If you need to ask how much the Panasonic TH-103PF9 costs, you can't afford it. But if you really are a lucky son of a gun with the spare cash and vast space needed to take on a 103PF9, then rest assured that it offers a really quite remarkable alternative to buying a projector.
Edited by Jason Jenkins
Additional editing by Jon Squire
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