Television Reviews

The new DellTM 4201C 42″ Plasma HDTV delivers spectacular High Definition picture quality with bright, vivid images and superb contrast. The W4201C is multi-media optimized with a wide aspect display providing 1024 vertical lines and 768 horizontal lines of resolution. High Definition is easy with Dell’s HD Built-in dual digital/analog tuner, and with advanced video processing from DNX TM by Pixelworks, the television experience is the quality you would expect from Dell!Features

DELL W4201C Plasma TV Review:

I’ve owned it for a couple of months now, and I’m very happy with it. Beats the heck out of the picture on my all of my friends LCDs, Plasmas and DLPs. The sound quality out of it is unbelieveable. I am pleasantly surprised at its rendering of SD (standard definition) channels. Looked much nicer than other plasmas I have seen. The price of this unit in Canada is at least 1200-1500 less than Panasonic HDTV’s, and close to those no-name brands you see at Costco and elsewhere, which look pretty bad when you see them on display. Blacks on this TV are quite black and not greenish as with some other brands. Colors are good, and the picture is bright enough for use in a sunlit room. Viewing HD and 1080i upconverted DVDs is simply AWESOME. I love the massive amount of inputs on the TV. The remote is a thing of beauty with very bright blue LED lights that match the onscreen slider control colors.

There is a problem if you use and HDMI/DVI cable (instead of an HDMI/HDMI cable, which works great) or an HDMI/DVI adapter .. you get a blank screen for about 2 seconds every 10 minutes or so. Its a bug … Dell can fix via firmware update in future, I hope. Also, the color temp reverts to blue if you change presets and go back to your custom preset. Also, the set doesnt save any RGB calibrations done to it, so a pro calibration is pointless, since the settings would revert back to factory settings. However, you can do your own calibrations via THX Optimizer/AVIA/DVE, which do help quite a bit. Still pro calibrations would make the picture even better.

Overall, a solid value. Not quite up to the elite Panasonic/Pioneer plasmas, but certainly much better than the bargain basement ones, and better than direct competitors like LG/Samsung. 

• AWESOME Sound quality 
• Excellent price
• Lots of Inputs.
• Good SD
• Excellent HD picture clarity

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