Sorry that I couldn't complete as accidentally pressed send button while traveling back home.
Finally booked Philips 40 PFL4650 @30k without any exchange & got 5 years comprehensive brand warranty from *www.kohinoortv.com/ Malad store.
LED TV 40PFL4650/V7 | Philips
Almost had finalized to get Panasonic 42C410 42 inch IPS superbright plus with 3 yrs warranty on 11th October.
TH-42C410D LED LCD TV - Panasonic India
In fact on 14th would have booked from paytm in 10k cashback offer but my PSU bank rejected the transaction as they do not honour debit card transactions above 25k. Later the same day offer ended on that model & had to wait till yesterday i.e. 28th October.
In between while checking out for some other better offers offline we got to compare Philips & Panasonic side by side in 2-3 showrooms. Panasonic's brighness was superb but it failed to reproduce colours & skin tones to our liking & moreover it lacked format support(saved my immediate investment for BlueRay Player). The UI of panasonic felt dead slow compared to Philips 2015 series. Colours were overtly saturated & somewhat unreal for my preference.
SD channels felt bit more fuzzy to my eyes when compared to Philips models.
It also lacked headphones out.
Considering all these points I took my call yesterday i.e. 28th October & after hard bargain settled in for Philips 40 PFL4650 by paying 1k advance.
Its not that Panasonic 42C410 is bad but did not felt VFM @42k actual price even though I would have got it for @32k net pricing after 10k cashback in paytm wallet. I was not comfortable waiting for Cashback & keeping it blocked in paytm wallet. So instead I preferred to book some other household appliances from the same store.
Thanks to all my friends & fellow members [MENTION=85950]Gollum[/MENTION] [MENTION=125133]Minion[/MENTION], [MENTION=120775]GhorMaanas[/MENTION] & others who help me & had patience to answer to my queries in forum thread as well as private messages.
Thanks again.