Panasonic video boards

As standard the Panasonic D8 series of High Definition (and standard definition) plasma panels come with a 15 pin D-sub VGA style of input to allow connection with PCs or other devices that can output RGBHV component video.

A special feature of the Panasonic D8 series, however, is the use of Multi-function slots. These allow you to use a variety of Panasonic video terminal boards, available as options, which means that you can customise the unit to meet your specific needs.

The 42", 50" and 65" Panasonic D8 displays have 3 video slots; the 37" standard definition D8 has 2. For a guide to fitting video boards into earlier Panasonic D6 (commercial "system route" plasma) and W6 (consumer plasma) click for a PDF here.(100Kb)

Dual DVI video board - TY-FB11DD

This Dual DVI-D video board allows you to input 1080p digital sources into the Panasonic FullHD screens, such as the TH-42PF11EK, TH-50PF11EK and the TH65-PF10EK.

This is the standard video board in the Full HD screens. To connect HDMI sources use an HDMI to DVI adaptor. NB. You will lose the audio using this method.

HDMI video board - TY-FB10HMD

HDMI has become the connection of choice for High Definition TV. The Panasonic TY-FB10HMD board gives you two HDMI connections of up to 1080p resolution for screens in series 10 and 11. For earlier version Panasonic screens, you will need to convert the output from your HDMI source, eg Sky box, Virgin box, AppleTV or Blu-Ray Disc player to component video to input on the component video or VGA video inputs.

Equipment with DVI output can be connected to HDMI, by the use of an adaptor, because they use the same encoding.

Composite Video board - TY-42TM6BB

This lets you connect S-video and composite video equipment such as a VCR or video camera, directly to the plasma screen. The component and composite connections are BNC and require BNC plug to phono socket. adaptors if your AV interconnect is RCA phono. This board also supports left and right audio input (suitable if you have directly connected speakers).

IR through board - TY-FB9RT

By using the included IR emitters this board allows you to point the remote control for your source equipment at your Panasonic screen and have the IR relayed through the screen's IR receiver and out to tnree individual items of equipment.

Other terminal boards

There are a number of other specialist video boards eg RGB active through terminal board for multi-screen displays, broadcast quality Serial Digital Interface (SDI) and High Definition SDI (HDSDI) video boards, and composite and component video boards with BNC connections.

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