Features:
- 56-inch widescreen HDTV-ready television
- Cable-ready, plug-and-play HDTV convenience using POD (Point of deployment) card--no DTV set-top box required
- ATSC/QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulator) tuner works with cable signals and receives over-air DTV broadcasts as well
- Progressive Cinema Scan (3:2 pulldown) corrects for digital distortion in 24 fps movies
- Offers a variety of picture-in-picture and split-screen options
Description:
Panasonic's 56-inch widescreen PT-56TWD63 will likely be the first plug-and-play, cable-ready HDTV. The CRT set's 16:9 screen is the standard for both HDTV broadcasts and widescreen DVD movies, and it allows for a variety of picture-in-picture and split-screen options. Able to brilliantly display 480p, 480i, and high-definition 1080i signals, the set uses an ATSC/QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulator) tuner, which receives digital cable channels as well as off-the-air DTV broadcasts. It also features a POD (point of deployment) module slot, which accommodates a POD card supplied by your digital cable provider. This card takes the place of an external set-top box, eliminating the need for additional cabling and hookups. Movie sources get their due with Panasonic's 3:2 pulldown feature, Progressive Cinema Scan. This enhancement compensates for motion artifacts that sometimes result from the telecine process that converts film's 24-frames-per-second to an NTSC-friendly 60 frames per second. Other picture-enhancing features include horizontal and vertical edge correction and a motion-adaptive 3D Y/C digital comb filter, which eliminates "hanging dots" and color rainbow effects in closely spaced patterns.
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