Pioneer’s brand new range of black-chassied, Kuro-branded full-HD plasma televisions has already gained recognition in Europe only several months after its launch with the European Image and Sound Association (EISA) naming the 50-inch PDP-LX508D model ‘Europe’s best Full-HD plasma screen'.
The award, judged by 50 editors from a selection of highly-regarded European consumer electronics magazines, recognised Pioneer's "relentless and continuous innovation in flat panel technology," including its "massively improved" contrast ratio which offers deeper blacks and richer colours than its preceding models.
‘Project Kuro' – the marketing name given to Pioneer's range of new plasmas, a Blu-ray player, two DVD recorders with built-in digital tuners and a home theatre system designed and built for Blu-ray – will make its debut on our shores next month at a press launch in Sydney.
"Once again Pioneer has reaffirmed its mastery of plasma picture quality," said a representative from the EISA judging panel. "The ‘Full-HD' PDP-LX508D sets a new standard for that key benchmark of home cinema video performance: black level depth. To achieve this exceptional result, Pioneer has simultaneously improved the three fundamental display elements – panel, filter and electronics – while at the same time paying close attention to picture processing, including motion compensation subsystems.
"Plus, as befits such a home cinema workhorse, the PDP-LX508D is also capable of reproducing high definition movies in their original format of 24 frames per second, exactly as they would be seen in a movie theatre."
