Panasonic Viera large screen TV
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Yes, they do require more power, but It’s cheaper than buying a new tv of comparable quality.
Not necessarily.
That plasma TV is 385 watts, a comparable size LCD is around 70 to 90 watts.
Around 300 watts difference, if used for just over 3 hours a day that's 1kWh of electricity, or about 30p at current prices.
3 hours a day for a year is well over £100.
6 hours a day use is £200+ per year.
Over the next 5 years, that energy wasting plasma TV could easily cost over £1k more in electricity compared to a modern LCD.
Used to be... when plasma was king... my old one is still a good pic on HD.
All wall mountable TV's have a DIN layout of four bolt hole on the rear, in the form of a square. Size of the square depends on the size/weight of the screen. No bolt hole, it is not wall mountable.
They are good TV's, no one wants plasma now, but fed with HD sources they are great image quality.
They are very power hungry compared to LED, I had a 50 inch in GWO which I gave away a few years ago, rather than pay the power bill to run it as the main TV. They are OK as a spare, or for occasional use.
Sony is about the only consistently 'good' brand, but that's mostly because the company has dropped the cheaper TV lines and focused more on the midrange and top-end sets.
Panasonic makes excellent higher-end TVs using LG OLED panels. So does Sony and Philips. They all use LG OLED panels because LG is the only manufacturer of this type (I am excluding QD-OLED). If anything then, Panasonic, Sony and Philips all produce superior OLED TVs to LG despite using LG panels because all three brands have better video processing than LG.
Panasonic LED is a different case.
The company has been struggling in the budget- and mid-market for a number of years. About 18 months ago it decided to cut the loses and outsource its LED TV production to third party manufacturers. AFAIK, it's still Panasonic designed, and I presume overseen by Panasonic, but the company is no longer making its own sets.
Onida is a brand popular in India. From what I have read it started making TVs in India some time in the late 80s or early 90s. This would be when CRT tube TVs were in full swing. The brand became popular because of a clever advertising campaign. The products have been described as "a poor man's Sony", whatever that means.
Since the switch to LCD/LED I can't see much that distinguishes Onida from a Bush, Polaroid, Toshiba, or any other badged product. There's nothing I have seen so far in any specs to suggest that the Onida brand is better than any other budget LED TV.
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Well, it weighs about 30 kg
So, if you wish to mount it on a wall, you will need
a strong wall
solid fixings and
an appropriate mounting bracket.
The latter is likely to cost you more than you should have paid for a TV of that "vintage".