Pioneer intros sexy KURO plasma lineup

by Darren Murph posted Jul 17th 2007 at 11:46PM

Shortly after Samsung and Hitachi unveiled their swank HDTV lineups, along comes Pioneer with a sexy plasma lineup of its own to shake things up. The KURO displays are segmented into two divisions, one which includes the 42- and 50-inch standard KUROs, and the other packing "Elite" KUROs of the same sizes. The 42-inch versions sport a 1,024 x 768 resolution panel, four independent HDMI 1.3 inputs, a built-in CableCARD slot, advanced PureCinema with 3:3 pulldown, and more tweakable settings than you can shake a stick at. The 50-inch flavors up the ante with a 1,365 x 768 resolution, and the Elite versions add the Home Media Gallery, come ready for ISFccc calibration, and include a few more choices throughout the display setting menus. Pricing and availability information doesn't look to be available just yet, but judging solely by the specifications on these beauties, we'd say you better bring the purse (as in, the whole thing) if looking seriously at one of these.

[Thanks, J]

Filed under: Displays, Pioneer, Plasma

Tags: kuro, pdp, PDP-5080HD

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Britboyj27 @ Jul 18th 2007 12:23PM

Why are people still making 1024x768 Plasmas! That's NOT 16:9, you don't have square pixels! Stop it! 1366x768 or BUST (AT LEAST some 1280:720 love!)

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Thad Garrison @ Jul 18th 2007 9:04PM

Pricing is now available:
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pna/v3/pg/kuro/album/order/compare/0,,2076_310069733,00.html

PDP-5080HD: $3500.00
PDP-4280HD: $2700.00
PDP-6070HD: $5000.00

Pretty high for non-1080p. Though I hear the new technology looks amazing. I look forward to checking it out.

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HDpurist @ Aug 12th 2007 7:11PM

For premium price of these panels and no 1080p, why bother?? 720p native haha... hey Pioneer, get ya kuro tha fugg outta here!!!!

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