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4.5 stars
"Stellar Picture"
Pros: Best contrast ever, 4 HDMI inputs all v.1.3
Cons: No X.V Color support, and no 120hz side scanning
Summary: Let me first start by saying, WOW! What a GORGEOUS picture. As picture quality goes, there truely is no better anywhere. Best contrast on any plasma or LCD (no brainer there) that has been seen to date. And of course, Pioneer always brags about the amount of gradation in color in their picture, well it is absolutely apparent in this set. Pioneer offers a new Optimum video setting on these TVs which is an ever changing adjustment in the picture so that every image is a beautiful as the next. Very similar to the way the Advanced Iris settings work in the Sony SXRD projection systems. My ONLY concerns are as follows: There is no X.V. Color support. As major BluRay advocates like Sony and Mitsubishi have demonstrated, X.V. Color Gamut technology is going to be the future of BluRay and for Pioneer not to include that capability in any of their new sets or their new BluRay Disc Players is more than disappointing to myself. And in a time where almost all major TV manufacturers are introducing the 120hz side scanning for smoother motion, Pioneer has introduced the 60hz side scanning...? Well, before they had 72hz (also called 3:3 pulldown, which they still have). I havent yet seen anything with this feature, but Sony and Panasonic sure are high on it. All in all, Pioneer, even with their disappointments this year, continue to lead the pack as far as quality of picture go. If you are looking for a picture that is head and shoulders above the rest, welcome to Pioneer.
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Please tell us where or which online store you purchased this TV set. Thank you in advance.
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I AM INTERESTED IN THE PIONER ELITE 1080P PRO-150FD 60 INCH. THEY ARE STARTING TO DELIVER NOW.
LOOKING FOR MORE INFO ON THEY AND COMPAIRING TO 60 TV 1080I
JERRY -
Glad to hear you are impressed with the Pioneer - looks to be a great TV...just wish I could afford it!
One thing you mentioned about the 120 Hz refresh rate and other company's (like Sony) boasting about it. You don't need 120 Hz in a plasma. The reason Sony etc are boasting it is becuase it is being used to help battle motion blur in LCD TVs - plasmas don't have motion blur issues because their individual phosphors (i.e. pixels) decay at a rate which is much faster than LCD - i.e. when you see 8ms (or 6ms or 4ms) response time in an LCD display(which is the contributor to motion blur), almost all plasmas come in way under this number (most under 1ms I believe). You won't see any plasma manufacturers quote response time becuase it's a moot point in plasmas, therefore no need to move to a 120 Hz refresh rate to battle it. 60Hz is plenty fast for smooth motion video. I'd far rather have the 72 Hx refresh rate you get with this plasma, becuase this give the set the ability to accept a 24Hz input signal from an film based source (i.e. HD Movie) and display it without having to do a bunch of funky things internally to multiply it up to 60Hz (called 3:2 cadence). 3:2 Cadence introduces something called "judder" which is a slight jerking motion in a smoth moving object (you'll notice this in the big ship that passes across the screen in the at the beginning of the orginial star wars movie.) All film based sources are recorded at 24Hz, therefore all are affect by this is the display is 60Hz only (or 120Hz). Instead, a 72 Hz set it just multiplies 24 by 3, and displays the picture, resulting in smother motion without judder.
On a side note, the 120 Hz refresh rate most manufacturers are boasting appears to be making little or no difference in motion blur anyways (according to the compaison reviews I've read).
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Pioneer Kuro PDP-5080 HD:
$2,698.00 - $2,899.00
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