Features:
- 50-inch diagonal screen with 1,365 x 768 resolution and PC input; TV is 48.5 x 29.4 x 3.5 inches (W x H x D)
- Outstanding 590:1 contrast ratio, very high (560 cd/m2) brightness, 10 watts per channel (speakers not included)
- Picture-in-picture (PIP) with 4 user-selectable windows
- NTSC TV/CATV tuner (181 channels, cable-ready) includes closed-caption decoding, favorite-channel programming
- 3:2 pulldown detection removes redundant 30-frames-per-second information to display a film-frame-accurate 24 fps picture
Description:
When a home theater calls for not only convenience and simplicity but quality and a huge screen, it's calling for the Helios HPTV-5000A 50-inch gas-plasma television. Within its brushed-aluminum cabinet, the slender (3.46-inch deep) set houses everything you need to start enjoying widescreen home entertainment only moments after unpacking it. Just plug it into a cable outlet and it's ready to put image-improving MotionDSC digital processing and progressive line scaling into service atop features like four-window PIP (picture-in-picture) and favorite-channel programming. With the HPTV-5000A, you're also getting a full-featured HDTV monitor, of course: through its internal scaler, the set accepts true HD signals, including 480p, 720p, and 1080i. With a DTV set-top box, you can feed high-definition images directly into the set's high-definition component-video, S-video, or PC-ready VGA component-video inputs. The HPTV-5000A performs 3:2 pulldown detection, a handy feature for watching progressive-scan movie programs in their native 24-frame format. Digital video mastering introduces a common distortion when adjusting 24 frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video; 3:2 pulldown digitally corrects this distortion, removing the redundant information to display a film-frame-accurate picture. For sound, the HPTV-5000A handles MTS stereo decoding and generates 10 watts per channel. Please be aware, however, that speakers for the television are optional, and--if you already have music or home-theater speakers--the set's stereo minijack analog jack can be configured for fixed-level output, making it suitable for a direct connection with your stereo preamplifier or integrated amp. The set's impressive 590:1 contrast ratio and high 560 cd/m2 brightness level makes it a great choice for any high-end video application. Other features include 1,365 x 768 resolution, adaptive motion de-interlacing, a digital 3D comb filter, selectable color temperature settings (standard 6,500K, 9,300K, and a user-selectable mode), automatic frequency detection, input phase clock adjustment, and front-panel lock (via RS-232C).
| 
