Bought this to go with my new Panasonic Plasma TV. My local dealer quoted me £95 and a two month waiting list, so thank goodness for Amazon! Not sure why it is so expensive as other dongles are quite reasonable, but I was told the TV will only recognise the proper Panasonic one (not sure if that's true).I do not have Sky etc or Freesat, but I bought it so that I could surf the internet and stream things from my laptop, and most of all watch all the catch-up services on the TV, in all these I was rather dissapointed. The 'internet' you can access is in fact 'Viera Cast' which turns out to be a very limited set of 'channels' that you can view, many of which seemed to be German. The only one I really use is Youtube, there are no catch-up services (like BBCi-player), but hopefully they will follow at some point. The streaming from my laptop is also only photos and videos, not hugely useful, so I have ended up buying an HDMI cable to connect it properly and can at last watch all the catch-up services on the TV- it is annoying to have a cable trailing around though. The dongle itself is well made and fairly unobtrusive when plugged into the side of the TV and was easy to set up, but I had alot of trouble getting my windows7 laptop to stream to it and had to phone the Panasonic helpline(they also found it hard to sort and had to E-mail me a booklet of instructions)- so much for 'set up for windows7'!!
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