Pioneer Elite KURO PRO-150FD Plasma HDTV Review

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Discover a world where pristine vision and flawless sound are par for the course. Where every image is stunningly clear. Every sound crisp, clear and unbelievably pure. Discover the world of Pioneer Elite. Where images so lifelike, motion so fluid and detail so great come together in perfect synchronicity. A world where streaming HD movies, music and digital photos from a networked PC to your TV are so effortless they become part of your everyday life, thanks to the Home Media Gallery feature. It’s a universe of things never before possible. Where the unimaginable becomes commonplace. It’s an experience so unbelievably different, so undeniably powerful and so completely extraordinary, it will change the way you look at TV forever.

Experience high definition in the most detailed, purest form available today. With over 2 million pixels, the PRO-150FD displays a true 1080p resolution (1920 x 1080p), the highest resolution available today. Spend some time with this glorious television, and you will quickly see that this brilliant flat-panel television has the brains to fine-tune multiple picture and video settings to ensure colors and resolution stay true, no matter the source. Enjoying a larger than life cinematic experience also requires amazing sound. Now you can experience a plasma display television that delivers an unrivaled audio experience through a digital amplifier for improved clarity and side speakers that amplify and deliver full surround sound effect.

This is more than the next step in high-definition. It’s a quantum leap. A revelation. A completely new world with optional ISFccc calibration – enabling you to experience the benefits of additional picture settings for day and night and to have the picture professionally customized, making it possible to perfectly adjust the picture settings for whatever environment this television lives in. Engineered for the ultimate experience in sight and sound, the PRO-150FD delivers resolution designed to exceed perfection, assuring you an HD experience that surpasses the standards of flawlessness – no matter what you watch

Review By Hometheaterreview

The $7,500 Elite KURO PRO-150FD is the largest and most expensive model in Pioneer’s highly touted 2007 KURO plasma line. Compared with the standard Pioneer-branded KURO displays, the Elite line features more advanced image adjustments and features. This 60-inch plasma HDTV has a 1920 x 1080 resolution and boasts a generous connection panel includes four HDMI, two component video, and one PC input, as well as a CableCARD slot and dual RF inputs to access the internal ATSC, NTSC, and Clear-QAM tuners.

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Review By Howstuffworks

With its Elite KURO PRO-150FD, Pioneer proves that quality can’t be measured by size alone. Many companies have attempted to raise the bar with the introduction of higher-end flat-panel HDTVs, and while there are sets with ridiculous 103-inch screens, quality depends on more than mere dimensions. Simply put, the 60-inch PRO-150FD plasma HDTV delivers one of the best pictures we’ve seen in the plasma category to date.

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Review By Hdtv-news

The set is equipped with different choices of connectivity options. Its connection panel is located at its backside near the center. This includes four HDMI ports, a VGA input for PC use, one component video input, a CableCARD slot, and two RF inputs for cable and antenna reception. A second component video input as well as a USB port is front-accessible along the left-hand side of the panel. A USB port and Ethernet jack on the back of the TV allow for local and networked access of multimedia files using the KURO PRO-150’s integrated Home Media Gallery feature.

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Review By Pcmag

An anti-reflective screen provides native 1080p resolution (1,920 by 1,080 pixels progressively scanned) and accepts 1080p video input only through its HDMI ports. Widescreen VGA resolution support topped out at 1,360 by 768 pixels. Image overscan with 1080i/p video signals could thankfully be disabled revealing every pixel, but 720p video sources were cropped 3 percent, slightly sacrificing detail and clarity. I found that standard definition overscan measured 7 percent, an acceptable result but still borderline excessive. The Elite’s 1080p video support includes 24-Hz and 60-Hz formats, plus the TV’s Advanced PureCinema feature enables a 72-Hz refresh rate that eliminates a shaking artifact known as judder when displaying video sourced from 24-frame-per-second material (most films and digital cinema).

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Review By Hdtvmagazine

The TV did a good job with the compressed HD signal from satellite so we expected some impressive pictures with the HD DVD player. The newly purchased HD-A3 was pressed into action with the four HD DVD movies that we had on hand. We were happy to see that the picture was even better with HD DVDs. Ara’s favorite movie is now Transformers and the scorpion scene is now his new HD reference scene. The only regret we had during the test was that we could not watch a HD DVD movie at 24 frames a second since out HD-A3 does not support it. The TV does, so if you have a next gen player with 24 frames a second support you will be able to watch movies at the same rate as in the cinema which will give you smoother playback.

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Review By Hometheatermag

PureCinema automatically detects film-based sources and offers three options. Standard feeds the panel the usual 1080p/60 signal, complete with 3:2 pulldown on a film-based source. Smooth is said to produce “smoother and more vivid moving images.” It does, but I didn’t find the improvement to be particularly dramatic. Advance converts film-based program material to a display rate of 72 frames per second by eliminating 3:2 pulldown. The Standard setting is available only with interlaced inputs, and you cannot select Smooth or Advanced with a 1080p/60 source.

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Posted on December 31st, 2008
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