Features:
- Full 1080i/480p high-definition resolution (when used with a DTV set-top box)
- Progressive-scan doubler enhances images from DTV and progressive-scan DVD players
- Motion-adaptive digital comb filter reduces blurring, dot crawl
- Horizontal and vertical edge correction sharpens the image at the picture's extremes
- Progressive Cinema Scan (3:2 pulldown) corrects DVD movies for artifact-free 24 fps accuracy
Description:
Loaded with features, Panasonic's widescreen PT-47WX52 is a projection monitor for the high-definition age. Its blend of high-resolution quality and custom convenience features makes it an attractive option for any advanced or forward-looking home theater. Progressive Cinema Scan (3:2 pulldown) provides faithful reproduction of film-based materials. Movies on film are converted to NTSC interlaced video (480i) for television by a process called telecine conversion, in which the 24 frame-per-second film is converted to video at 60 fields per second. Generally, when 480i video is converted to progressive scan (480p), the artifacts from the telecine process remain. Panasonic's Progressive Cinema Scan circuitry converts 480i video to 480p while restoring the original frames of the film for a faithful movie reproduction. Two-tuner picture-in-picture (PIP) with split-screen display lets you view two programs at once by dividing the screen in half down the middle. Each program is shown at full height, with one program on the left side and the other on the right. Scalable PIP image size lets you choose the size of the picture-in-picture window from as small as .062 to as large as 25 percent of the main picture. The motion-adaptive 3D-Y/C digital comb filter displays bright colors and action scenes with incredible clarity by minimizing the "color rainbow effect" in closely spaced patterns, compensating for the motion that occurs between fields. As a result, bright colors and fast action scenes are displayed with striking clarity. With Digital Velocity Modulated Scan, advanced circuitry along the neck of the CRT senses transitions from black to white in the video signal. The black and white portions of the signal are sped up and slowed down, respectively, resulting in sharp black-to-white transitions. This feature can be turned on or off. BBE High-Definition Sound improves speech intelligibility and restores the dynamic range of musical passages to help provide a more natural sound. Simulated stereo sound--even from a monaural source--delays the original, two-channel sound to create a "surround" effect. Artificial Intelligence Sound Control manages the sound level to prevent wide variations in volume among different TV channels and types of programming. The unit provides 15 watts per channel to each of its two speakers.
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