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Jan 8, 2011 Luvveroflife     Purchased this tv from Best Buy 3/2006. We loved it INITIALLY!! Everything was...

May 27, 2008 Jimmy S.     We had this television for 2 1/2 years and enjoyed it a lot. Great picture altho...

May 6, 2008 seinar     Great tv, great picture. The only slight problem I would even consider a problem...

Jan 8, 2008 John J     Bought this Zenith Jan. 2006. Seemed like a great 50" plasma for the price.When ...

Jan 8, 2008 John J     Bought this Zenith Jan. 2006. Seemed like a great 50" plasma for the price.When ...

Nov 16, 2007 kodiak     This pdp is junk 22 month and pop its dead.. 3500.00 wasted and no extende wara...

Aug 25, 2007 Robert     We purchased the 50 inch plasma Zenith television 1/06 for $3000. It made the i...

Jul 6, 2007 dk     Worst television purchase ever!!!...

Jun 21, 2007 angie     I purchased this TV in late January 2006. I have great picture quality with DIS...

Jun 11, 2007 MC     Purchased Zenith Z50PX2D in Jan 06. This past weekend it made 2 loud popping no...

Jun 4, 2007 Jcor     The picture is sharper than some more expensive models I looked at. I designed a...

Dec 31, 2006 kelley     Purchased our Z50PX2D 50" plasma from a major electronics chain as a "scratch an...

My Experience: Purchased this tv from Best Buy 3/2006. We loved it INITIALLY!! Everything was great(except price and weight). Thankfully I had purchased BB's extended 4 yr. warranty (which is really an additional 3 years plus mfg. warranty for 4 yrs. One would think mfg. warranty is free for first year, so you are really getting 5 yrs. total, WRONG!!). On 7/31/2009 we got that POP everyone describes. NOTHING, no picture, sound, NADA! Thankfully for our ext. warranty. 4 boards had to be ordered and replaced for a cost close to $1000. My ext. warranty expired on 3/2010. Yesterday, 1/7/2011 we got the apparently inevitable 2 POPS. Had sound, could change channels but no picture. Called BB and a QEEK SQUAD tech said he probably wouldn't repair it as we could probably get a newer 50 inch plasma for close to what we'd pay for repairs.

Problems: Never really had any issues with this tv, except for the POPS. Paying over $3000 for this tv, I had hoped to get ATLEAST 10 years from it. The ext. warranty cost approx. $400, so the first repair was covered and worth the price of the warranty. But now, who knows what the repairs might cost. An additional $1000? Be cautious when buying tvs, check out the fine print if you get an ext. warranty, and DO NOT buy this particular model (even if you buy it used)