Panasonic Viera TH-P50VT20A / TH-P54VT20A / TH-P58VT20A / TH-P65VT20A Questions & Answers

Hi Lynne I. Its best to give our customer service team a call on 132600 and they will assist you further with your enquiry.

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Hi, it just needs to be adjusted to receive tv signal. Plug antenna in and do autotune. If you don’t get any HD channels, there is a setting in the menu to adjust. See how you go with auto tune first. Chromecast plugs into the hdmi port. It will work just fine if you have configured the chrome cast. It will also work with wii, Nintendo, PlayStation plugged into hdmi port. I’m watching my 2010 model as I write this. Mafs haha

Could be from a faulty HDMI cable, faulty backlights or interference from connected external devices.

Something similar happened to me and it turned out to be a faulty motherboard. Had it replaced for about $200 a few years ago. Good luck

Hi Paul, best to give our customer service team a call on 132600 and they will trouble shot and see if they can do anything from their end.

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Thank you.

classic T con/control board fault.

Could be the motherboard. Ring around, there’s spares for less than $200. Try to fix it because it’s a real good tv with solid manufacturing, much better than some of the cheap low quality ones they’re making now.

Sounds like the fan inside the unit needs to be cleaned from dust

thanks a lot, will try the way.

Yes Digital channels should work with Antenna and Set top box.I have same tv and I get my digital channels through the antenna with no set top box as I use my Sony Playstation.

Yes, the tv has an inbuilt high definition decoder and is able to receive all free to air channels in your city.

Thanks guys. Will look further into it.

It has YouTube inbuilt. Netflix wasn’t invented back when tv was made, so no. But simple way is just to buy the google Chromecast for about $50, plug it into the tv and you have something better than most smart tvs.

Thank you Steve for your help got a Chromecast it worked a dream.

Connect your camera with a Hdmi Cable in any hdmi point on Tv and once you connect it change tv to hdmi of the number you connect to.So press Av button on remote and the selections will come up.

You will have to go into Tv Settings and Tuning Channels.Do a scan of all channels and the channels will be found.

Yes, go into settings and find the scan channels option. Click on it and it should do everything automatically. Make sure your a antenna is plugged into the tv and wall. Good luck

Hi, unfortunately this model TV is not able to display the new channels as they are MPEG4. If we can be of assistance, please contact our customer service team on 132600.

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Hi Jim, while this had a HD tuner, this product does not play MPEG4 channels which is why you are finding you can't tune in all of the newer channels. For further details please refer to our FAQ external link 

Cool, that does help. I’ve haven’t been watching HD on this tv for quite a while. Seems strange that there is a secret mp4 activation menu requiring user selection. This should happen automatically. Anyway, it’s white an old tv now, but still works and looks great. Thanks Panasonic

Thanks Steve I agree, mp4 should activate automatically, Happy that I've got those channels now Thanks also to Panasonic for replying. much appreciated

No idea, as I bought mine Dec'13

hi Andrew,

I am not sure why this happened. Whenever there are upgrades to HD and new channels, my TV prompts me to auto-tune.

Try manual tuning if it's available on your TV

Hi Gorakh. I just a few moments ago I turned on the Panasonic Plasma television and it automatically come up with a question allowing me to do a complete channel frequency search. Amazingly it found all the SBS channels as well as the others plus a few radio stations as well.

Yesterday I attempted to do a software upgrade using the LAN cable through the Ethernet inlet located on the rear of the television. This might have helped but I'm not sure.

Miraculously the television has found all the stations.

I really appreciate your feed back.

Thank you.

As of April 2016 I've managed to get all the new channels like 7flicks etc by pressing MENU, select SETUP, DIGITAL TV TUNING MENU then ADD MPEG4 ACV CHANNELS. Press ok on that and then turn the tv off at the main power switch at the side of the unit. Turn it back on, it will do another auto channel search and you should have all the new channels. Thankyou Google!

I've had this tv for right on 6 years and its been used for thousands of hours playing games and movies. Very happy with the unit and the fact that the option was embedded into the tv to allow for future broadcast formats like mpeg4

This worked for me too .. thanks :-)

Hi, Yes, It is HD TV. When you plug in for the first time, you will be prompted to tune-in. Alternatively, you can go to settings and choose to tune-in Every time new channel is detected (which is once in blue moon), you will be prompted to tune-in by just pressing "OK" button.

thx

Gorakh

Yes when I got the TV about 3 years I tuned it in now going to settings its will only give up the channels that are already tuned in what am I missing :-)

marcia

Hi, Sorry I'm not sure about that.Panasonic may know. Regards.