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That's exactly what I was trying to say in my previous post. Thanks for the backup.

Hello.

Thanks Panasonic guys, you are giving me a lot of great information to go by!

Let me ask you about these light up LCD display.

Is there a way to adjust it so it’s not too bright.

I'm worried that it might become annoying if you are watching a movie and have the lights off or if you’re trying to sleep and the phone is right next to your bed.

Do you know if it has Least Call Routing with the ability to insert/modify digital and access trunks? I'm thinking about maybe putting a vonage VOIP trunk as an additional trunk in the system and routing all long distance calls to it.

Can you tell me about this BV feature? Its a built-in voicemail as part of the system? How does this compare to a regular voicemail system or an answering machine on an analog trunk? Can it be used to take voice mail from calls or strictly for internal messages? I've never seen a BV feature before. Do you have any experience with this?

Also, the KX-TA824 are not true digital phones rather a type of hybrid-analog phone but with all the features of a regular digital phone? Is the fact thats is an analog give you any disadvantage? I mean are the calls slightly better with the digital vs analog?

The KX-TDA are IP-hybrid phone right? Are you saying these are worth taking a look over the KX-TA824?

Thanks.

A properly setup Panasonic 824 with the Backlit LCD and Backlit keypad phones, 1 or 2 7895 cordless phones, ( again setup properly, these phone have 12 buttons so you see lines and have function keys like Page and Voice Mail Transfer, CID etc.) BV or TVS voice mail would be like an Atomic Bomb going off on top of all the other systems. Espicially if you use CID routing. All Daughters known callers go only to her phone or page only her, Grandma,s callers ring her phone, business callers ring or page for dads home office, screen via paging or phone ( i have a call for Cindy from Jeramy, either over the page or when phone picked up, special greeting for special friends by CID,doesn't mater what line they call on, Windows program for literate home owner, modem built in for non literate homeowner, video doorphone that connects to phone system with multiple monitors including TV, IP Cam can also connect to doorphone etc,etc,etc.
KABOOM!!!! All the others are dust in the wind baby.
They miss some licks on the business side sometime but they have residentil locked down
tight! :toast:

Go with a 848 or TDA 50 with same phones or better
and the Celluar wireless phones, Hydrogen bomb time! :toast:

I never noticed the panasonic displays lighting up enough to wake someone up. Then again, I have 4 1a2 phones with line buttons that light up occasionally at night, they must be brighter than an LCD display?

The displays do have an intensity setting (all models). Some use a switch, others use the jog dial that acts like a dimmer switch. They are not too bright at all. Personally, I think the backlighting on them is perfect.

I'm taking a look at the Panasonic KX-TA824 system.

I'm a little confused about a few things that maybe you can help answer.

1. Intercom Path limited to 4 paths vs other models which this is unlimited? Does this mean that only 4 phones can be using the intercom at the same time?

2. What exactly is the process in making an intercom call when you have each room assign to a DSS button.

Do you just press the button and you automatically have a 2-way speaker connection with the room (after a confirmation tone), assuming you automatically have the Auto-ANS On for all extensions at all times.

3. Is the Auto-ANS being on simple a button that you press on the keyset or is it something you program into the system?

4. When the Auto-ANS is on, do you have a blinking light, or button that lights up showing that Auto-ANS is on? Or can Auto-ANS be on quietly in the background?


I know these sounds like simple questions but when you will be using a phone system everyday for 20 years mostly as an intercom system, you want to make sure it works the way you think it does and everyone is happy with it.

Thanks.

1. Yes 4 sets of 2 people talking to each other via the intercom.

2. You can press the Intercom button, dial the Ext. or you can press the DSS button. Both ways will give same result.

3. Simply press the button on the phone

4. Stays on solid.

1. TAW and TDA is non blocking on intercom (unlimited)
2. Press Speaker Press Button, if Auto Answer is on at called phone, two way handsfree established, otherwise ringback tone heard, press star and one way voice call established.

3. Auto Answer is a button on the phone and is controlled by end user.

4.Auto answer led is on when AA active.

Taw 848 or TDA are the best systems because of cell abilty and external power supply. (easy to replace) The Cell phones 7680 & 7690 are light years ahead of other cordless phones.

You can also program a Page button, this will one-way page all idle multibutton phones.
You can program a ring group button that will ring all phones in the house or groups of phones.
If you want cheap Outlook screenpops, use modem
on a slt port for CID info to Outlook or other PIMS.
Easy to keep in touch with remote call forwarding, just call in enter number for system to send calls to, or have this option pre set in your mailbox callers press 1 digit to go to your cell or other number. This can be silent of public option.

The black Panasonic phones, are they still the glaringly shinny surface or have they changed to the speckled kind of surface like the Toshiba that some people call black but Toshiba calls charcoal and is almost identical to the color Samsung calls dark gray? New phones are going to outlast a lot of the houses if the earthquake hits and they should look nice when they are installed in the new home built after the earthquake. They wouldn't survive a flood probably, hard to find them downstream, but if they are under a table during the earthquake they should survive.

What about the Panasonic battery powered portable desk phones that will use a twelve volt car battery and only has to be charged once a year? The only problem is that they might interfer with the wireless IP conection that the new refrigerators, washers and dryers use. Isn't it great to click on your laptop while toweling off and see the clothes tumbling in the dryer or check to see how much milk is left on the top shelf?

The doorbox is the best feature with the two way color screen and screaming audio. When the door to door preachers come around, I point the camera at a little tv playing a porno tape and once they ring the doorbell, the screen comes on and they run like hell.

Anyway, I'm still waiting for the KXTD-99SHP that they said would be out third quarter 2003. Imagine a phone that would have sheep jumping over the fence in the large screen display and a BAAH, BAAH ringing instead of that nasty mechanical tweeter noise. Every farmer will be a Panasonic prospect.

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