Features:
- NTSC tuner/router for use with Philips 50FD9955, 42FD9934, 42FD9954, and 32FD9954 plasma TVs
- 4 composite-, 2 component-, and 3 S-video inputs, including 1 high-definition component-video for use with a DTV receiver
- Feeds audio and video to and receives commands from your plasma monitor via shielded VGA cables (supplied)
- Performs 2-tuner, split-screen PIP processing so you can watch 2 programs simultaneously
- Enhances images with Digital Natural Motion (480p/1080i) line doubling, Active Control Plus+, and ambient light sensor
Description:
Simplify your setup, ease your operation, and enhance the picture quality of your Philips plasma TV with the handy E-Box NTSC receiver and router (model FTR9964). Made for plug-and-play use with Philips 50FD9955, 42FD9934, 42FD9954, and 32FD9954 plasma TVs, the E-Box offers a host of audio/video inputs and outputs (far more than your plasma display can fit in its slender chassis) and a wealth of picture-enhancing technologies to boot. A plasma display panel is essentially just a giant computer monitor, which needs sources connected to it in order to display a picture. The E-Box provides a convenient way to manage your many home-entertainment audio and video sources. Among the features it extends to your display is two-tuner, split-window PIP (picture-in-picture) so you can watch two programs simultaneously, or watch one while recording the other to a PVR, DVD, or videocassette. Line doubling with Digital Natural Motion (480p/1080i) brings interlaced sources like VCRs and non-progressive-scanning DVD players into the digital realm. Active Control Plus+ is a unique, intelligent, and proactive control system that continuously measures and analyzes the incoming signal 60 times per second to automatically and continually adjust picture settings for optimal quality. Just as importantly, Active Control Plus+ also uses a sensor to adjust for ambient room light, so as the room gets brighter, so will your picture. When black bars are present on screen (either on the sides or the top and bottom), a feature called APAC (Automatic Phosphor Aging Compensation) imperceptibly moves the picture up and down or back and forth to help prevent the dreaded screen burn-in. Think of APAC as a screen saver for your plasma monitor. The E-Box also gives you seven viewing modes to provide broad choices in how you watch your programming. The format modes are: 4:3, Movie Expand 14:9, Movie Expand 16:9, Movie Expand 16:9 with subtitling, Super Wide, Widescreen, and Auto Format. The unit's many inputs include everything from standard and high-definition component-video (for use with an external HDTV receiver) to an RF antenna input for NTSC reception or even a feed from an older VCR or cable box. A center-channel audio input can be matrixed into the stereo signal feeding your plasma monitor, and a front-panel headphone output affords private listening. You can install the E-Box up to 33 feet away from your plasma display. A specially designed VGA-type cable (15-pin, shielded and included) connects the E-Box to the plasma unit. The picture, sound, and infrared control of the E-Box is achieved through the IR port on the plasma panel using the remote control(s) that came with your plasma monitor, freeing you at once and always from line-of-sight concerns over the E-Box placement. What's in the Box
E-Box receiver, two VGA cables (two- and five-meter, including a gold cinch), antenna cable, and a user's manual.
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