Everyone knows that to get the ultimate home cinema experience you really need to get hold of a projector. But of course, the problems of installing a projector in a normal home – the need for perpetual darkness, long cable runs, a place to site the unit where it's not in the way, etc – make such a dream big-screen scenario impractical for the majority of us out there.
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Which is where flatscreens like Fujitsu's monumental P63XHA51AS come in, giving you a huge 63 inches of image whilst hanging on or sitting flush to your wall.
The P63XHA51AS goes out of its way to make as little impact on your décor as possible, thanks to a screen frame so thin you wonder how it can support the huge quantity of glass it surrounds. Not that we have any real concerns about the P63XHA51AS's build quality; on the contrary, it actually feels very robust.
Sound advice
Part of the reason for the screen's svelte looks is the fact that it comes with neither built-in nor bolt-on speakers; if you want Fujitsu's matching pair, you'll have to pay extra.
Another thing the P63XHA51AS notably lacks is a tuner. Like much of the Fujitsu range, the model is a monitor design, aimed as much at the corporate and custom-install trade as the home cinema enthusiast. For high-end installations, this tuner omission is of little consequence. Anyone spending $TBA on a screen will surely be running it with at least a Foxtel box, not to mention assorted miscellaneous sources.
Connections and features
While it may not have a tuner, the P63XHA51AS does manage a couple of Scarts, a VGA (RGBHV) PC jack, and the usual ‘HD Ready' requirements of component video and HDMI sockets. It's a pity, though, that we're only talking about both these HD options in the singular; surely such a potentially HD-friendly super-screen like this could have run to at least two HDMIs? Oh well. If you can afford $xxx for the screen you can probably also afford an external HDMI switchbox...
The P63XHA51AS's onscreen menus house few video-friendly features. The only things we could find worth even a passing mention were separate Drive and Signal contrast adjustments, and a handful of video presets. But, thankfully, working behind the scenes under the name of AVM II, is a proprietary technology cocktail that suggests that Fujitsu really does care very much about how the screen is going to look with video sources.
Advanced Video Movement, to give it its full title, is essentially a motion-adaptive deinterlacing and video processing system that works on a number of different aspects of the picture, delivering such improvements as jaggie-free contours; less MPEG block noise; less mosquito noise; and sharper, ghost-free edges.
