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5.0 stars
"A stunning full-featured HDTV"
Pros: Superb HDTV PQ and SQ with subwoofer out; ability to play and display Blu-Ray Discs in 1080P; excellent SD broadcast PQ
Cons: None so far
Summary: I actually purchased the Pioneer PDP4271HD from Best Buy (basically the same model with two remotes). I hooked up a Monitor Audio Radius 360 subwoofer to the subwoofer out on this TV. With the TV's own excellent speakers and the subwoofer the SQ is simply stunning (although I get no surround sound). The PQ on standard definition broadcasts is excellent and significantly better than the Sony XBR1 LCD that I previously owned. Perhaps most exciting, this TV is built for the future, as it will accept and display a 1080P signal from a Blu-Ray player hooked up to the TV with an HDMI cable (I have confirmed this with Pioneer customer service). It will not, however, ever be able to display a broadcast 1080P signal, but since there won't be any such signals for quite some time that's not a significant current issue and probably won't be for the next 2-3 years. Audition this HDTV. It is well worth the price.
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While I'm sure based on past reputation that your plasma is excellent, the fact is that it cannot display a true 1080p signal, because it does not have the resolution to do so. I forget the actual numbers, but to display 1080p, the set must have a resolution of approx 1980 by 1080, and your set's resolution is less than that. The Pioneer rep was probably referring to the fact that its HDMI input will accept a 1080p signal (true-many current HDMI inputs won't do this). But a set can't display lines that it does not have--much like an EDTV set will accept a high def signal, but can't display all of it.
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