But not just any black. Perfect black.

And in the television world, black is everything. Black encompasses the entire spectrum of colour. The deepest black levels produce the purest colours and the sharpest details.

Achieving the blackest blacks imaginable and building a screen that produces the absolute best picture quality in the world was the inspiration and driving force behind our newest flat screen TV.

KURO lets you see literally every shade between black and white; the most vivid and flawless colours.The PDP-LX5090, one of our latest KURO TVs, is just 93mm thin and has an integrated digital terrestrial tuner.

In short, KURO is a television that will let you see and hear like never before

Features

• Diagonal Screen Size: 50-inch / 127 cm
• Screen Technology: Plasma
• ‘HD ready 1080p:’ Yes
• HD Digital Film Direct 24: Yes
• Resolution (horizontal x vertical): 1,920 x 1,080
• TV Tuner: Integrated Digital DVB-T and Analogue
• CI Slot: Yes
• Speakers: Optional high grade side and under-mounted speakers available
• Input Terminals: 3 x HDMI, 1 x Component, 1 x RCA AV, 3 x Euro-SCART, 1 x CI slot, 1 x PC input, 1 x USB port
• Output Terminals: 1 x Optical, 1 x RCA Audio, 1 x Headphone, 1 x Subwoofer Out
• Optimum Mode: Yes
• Home Gallery: Yes
• Multiscreen Options (PiP/PaP): Yes
• Electronic Program Guide: Yes
• Dimensions: (W x H x D) 1.233 x 723 x 93 mm
• Weight: 33,5 kg
• Power Consumption: 420 W / 0,3 W

Review By Hdtvtest

Just like previous Kuros, the Pioneer PDP-LX5090 plasma HDTV sports a clutter-free glossy black bezel which is adorned only by Pioneer’s logo along the bottom border, and some red/ blue (the intensity of which can be adjusted in the user menu) LED indicators at the bottom left corner. As is the case with all plasma televisions we’ve reviewed thus far, the reflective screen on the Pioneer PDP-LX5090 takes on a dark grey appearance in a bright room, strengthening the case for stringent ambient lighting control to prevent the potentially inky blacks from being excessively “diluted” by stray light.

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Review By Reghardware

The LX5090 may not be as advanced as that, but it still shows substantial improvement over last year’s already strikingly good model. Pioneer knows its stuff – this is the ninth generation of plasma from the company - the native resolution’s a full 1920 x 1080 - and a leap forward in picture quality.

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Review By Trustedreviews

In looking at other features of the LX6090, we have no choice but to concentrate first on the technological advances Pioneer has made during the time that’s elapsed between last year’s 8th plasma generation and the latest models. For it’s only in doing that that we can really convey a sense of the sort of technological stuff that goes into making Pioneer KURO TVs so different.

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Review By t3.com

The black levels, always a strong point on Pioneer plasmas, are better than ever. Watch a murky movie like Hostel 2 or Sunshine in a totally dark room and you can barely see any light escape from the black parts of the picture. No other plasma we’ve seen can match that bottomless depth, and LCD TVs are totally incapable of getting even close.

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Review By Stuff.tv

We know it isn’t easy to deliver an off-air picture this size, but the ‘LX5090 makes a solid stab, being largely free of noise and capable of colourful, detailed pictures. Those speakers shine too; having demonstrated organisation and body with films, they sound clear and balanced with TV broadcasts.

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Review By Pocket-lint

Connections-wise you should be well catered for. The KURO boasts three HDMI, three SCART, and a Component connection, plus VGA for a PC hook-up, as well as PC audio input, should you need it (as well as the aerial and common interface). On the side of the screen you’ll find additional connections AV as well as USB, for photo viewing, for example. As some of these inputs are shared, you have to switch over to the HDMI connections in the menu when you set-up your screen.

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Review By Hdtv-news

As an HDTV television, the PDP-LX5090 displays images brilliantly, specially with a Blu-Ray player. Not only does the splendid black level on the Pioneer PDP-LX5090 plasma television shower the viewers with an exquisite sense of depth and dimensionality, it also served as a pristine canvas which allowed wonderful rich colours inside a movie to pop off the screen.

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Review By johnlewis

1080p is the purest form of high definition that a television can display. This leads to a smoother, more film-like image, which will satisfy sports and movie lovers alike. With a 1080p signal, the information that makes up an image is displayed “progressively” or all at once, rather than in an “interlaced” fashion. Television stand needs to be purchased separately.

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