Hitachi P50T01 - Expert Reviews

Review summary: Natural colour tones, subtle details to dark backdrops and excellent connectivity are the stand out features with the Hitachi P50T01U 50-inch plasma screen. In addition, the TV is well priced and the details in every last tiny texture are fine when viewin

Pros: Good price; very natural colour tones; connectivity is very good; features galore

Cons: Dithering noise when showing movement; not the best black level response; no 1080p/24 support

Verdict: Hitachi was once one of the leading lights of the budget plasma TV world. But while the P50T01U remains attractive enough on the price front, its performance is let down by one or two old-school problems that other manufacturers seem to have solved

Review summary: The 50-inch P50T01U from Hitachi is a deeply appealing looker

Pros: Well detailed pictures, Very natural tones

Cons: Poor menus, Disappointing black levels, Motion blurring

Verdict: There are user-options galore in the P50T01U's onscreen menus, from stalwarts like MPEG noise reduction to such esoteric fodder as line and colour transient improvements. Aggravatingly, though, it takes ages to access some of them thanks to the onscreen m

Review summary: The 50-inch P50T01U from Hitachi is a deeply appealing looker. A matt black bezel gives it a slightly less flash, but more authoritative, look than most rivals, with a dash of panache coming from an artfully tapered silver outer trim

Pros: Well detailed pictures, Very natural tones

Cons: Poor menus, Disappointing black levels, Motion blurring

Verdict: Plenty of inches for your buck, but the picture quality leaves a little to be desired

Review summary: The price for this 50in plasma looks too good to be true...

Verdict: With its extravagant feature count, glamour-puss looks, reams of connections and really quite astonishingly low ?1120 price, we really, really wanted to like Hitachi?s P50T01U. But while it?s probably just about worth considering if you?re really obsessed