Features:
- Renders decoded 1080i, 480p video signals
- 2-tuner PIP with split-screen display
- Progressive Cinema Scan (3:2 pulldown)
- Velocity-scan modulation improves images at screen edges, motion-adaptive 3D-Y/C digital comb filter eliminates dot crawl
- Advanced screen shield protects surface
Description:
The 16:9-ratio widescreen PT-51HX42 is optimized for high-definition and enhanced-definition TV programming in the 1080i or 480p signal formats and renders brilliant, seamless images from progressive-scan DVD players as well. (An external DTV set-top box is required to decode digital broadcasts.) This unit also offers Progressive Cinema Scan (3:2 pulldown). DVD mastering commonly introduces a 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 on your TV. Two-tuner picture-in-picture with split-screen display lets you view two programs at once by dividing the screen in half down the middle; select audio for either. PIP features include 8-bit PIP image processing (256 levels of gray from black to white in the inset picture), scalable PIP image size, and multiformat PIP display. Velocity-scan modulation improves the definition at picture edges, creating sharper images by slowing the CRT (cathode-ray tube) beam's horizontal scanning during demanding work--say, when rendering transitions from light to dark parts of an image--and speeding it up when scanning easily rendered sections, like broad dark areas. Other high-tech features include a fine-pitch screen (0.52mm), high-resolution (small dot-pitch) CRTs, a motion-adaptive 3D-Y/C digital comb filter (minimizes the "color rainbow effect" in closely spaced patterns), and Artificial Intelligence Picture Control (which continuously monitors signal conditions to maintain a high degree of contrast). BBE High-Definition Sound improves speech intelligibility and restores the dynamic range of compressed musical passages. The set can also simulate surround sound--even from a monaural source--by delaying the original, two-channel sound to create a "surround" effect. The Director Lighted Disc illuminated remote control can be programmed to control most current audio-video components.
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