UltimateAVmag makes "Best of the Year" picks

by Darren Murph, posted Dec 18th 2007 at 12:08AM

Considering the subjective nature of any "best of" list, it's always enjoyable to toss out results and watch onlookers pick apart the decisions. That being said, we're thrilled to have yet another list of winners at our disposal, this one crafted by the folks over at UltimateAVmag .com. The highlights include JVC's DLA-HD1 as projector of the year, Sony's 70-inch KDS-70XBR2 as RPTV of the year, Revel's $35K Ultima2 Studio2 System as speaker setup of the year and Onkyo's TX-SR875 as AV receiver of the year. In an interesting move, Sony's PlayStation 3 was chosen as disc player of the year due to its "speed and reliability," and Toshiba's HD-A30 took home budget product of the year honors. The standout victor in all of this was Pioneer's PDP-6010 KURO plasma, which isn't at all surprising considering the reviews. Granted, this isn't the first time a Pioneer PDP has grabbed the gold in similar competition, but this particular model snagged flat-panel of the year and product of the year medals on its way down the red carpet. For the complete rundown, be sure and tag the read link, and don't hesitate to throw in your two pennies below.

Filed under: Industry, Blu-ray, Displays, HD DVD, Other hardware, Players, Receivers, Speakers, JVC, Others, Pioneer, Sony

Tags: best, best of the year, BestOfTheYear, DLA-HD1, HD-A30, KDS-70XBR2, kuro, PDP-6010, playstation 3, Playstation3, ps3, rankings, ratings, sony, TX-SR875, Ultima2 Studio2 System, Ultima2Studio2System

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SimbaDogg @ Dec 18th 2007 1:25AM

sony best rptv and pioneer best plasma...big surprise there, but hot damn w/ the ps3...

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Truth Teller @ Dec 18th 2007 8:51AM

Wow, a 720p/1080i HD TV gets voted top dog.

Where are all the 1080p fanboys ion this one?

Cue a nice little stream of owners just set to make the most of those inexpensive 720p/1080i HD DVD players.

LMAO

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okeygrak @ Dec 18th 2007 9:01AM

LMAO! You're the clueless one who has no idea what the actual specs are on the TV. 1080p and 72HZ motion for true 1080p/24.

"Truth Teller". HAH

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okeygrak @ Dec 18th 2007 9:03AM

I vote that "Truth Teller" should be renamed to "Shit Spewer"

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Spiza @ Dec 18th 2007 9:48AM

The kuros are one of the few HDTVs that dinterlace 3:2 properly though.

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Jody @ Dec 18th 2007 10:23AM

@Truth Teller

It's the Kuro 50" PDP-5080HD that is 720p (well actually 768p). The 60 incher is 1080P.
Pioneer went for quality over pixels on the 50" model ("it's the black levels stupid"), but at 60" you just need the pixels.

Also, there isn't really such a thing as a 1080i flat panel display. All flat panels are inherently progressive scan and come mostly in 3 flavors: 1024 x 768, 1366 x 768, 1920 x 1080. I choose to feed my 768p set 1080i from my HD-DVD player to squeeze in those 48 extra lines, but 720p from the sat. box since most sports are broadcast at 720p and why have the signal scaled twice.

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Spiza @ Dec 18th 2007 10:55AM

There are 1080i TVs though. I know Hitachi made them. The res is 1024 x 1080.

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Siva @ Dec 18th 2007 11:40AM

You are probably thinking about CRT RPTV. They are analog in nature and truly interlaced. All digital pixel based displays are progressive in nature. This includes LCD, DLP, LCoS, Plasma

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chad @ Dec 18th 2007 12:03PM

@ Siva

No, he's correct. Some Hitachi displays use ALiS technology which allows them to achieve higher vertical resolutions on smaller panels with a smaller number of electrode strips. ALiS displays drive alternating rows of pixels at 60 Hz and in a way are similar to the old CRT based displays.

Check out Hitachi's website. They still produce displays which use ALiS technology and thus the best description for their native resolution is 1080i.

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Truth Teller @ Dec 18th 2007 12:26PM

Ooops. My (little) mistake.

I was (of course) referring to that other international award winning Kuro, the 50" which, as I rightly said, is indeed 720p/1080i.

.....and also like I said the Kuro 50" has regularly beaten many of the current 1080p HD TVs in fair and neutral comparisons.

(not that the 1080p spec-sheet obsessed fanboys care to admit it.)

BTW hilarious lame personal attacks there okeygrak; fine debate. Not.
Pathetic.

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rip @ Dec 18th 2007 2:10PM

It seems your original post states "Wow, a 720p/1080i HD TV gets voted top dog."

Hardly a "little" mistake. The 5080 and 6010 are two completely different sets. Different size, different resolution, different panels.

Besides, the 5080 is 768p. Not 720p

And saying that it is 720p/1080i makes no sense at all. Every HDTV can do 1080i, along with a few other resolutions. Do you also refer to 1080p sets as 1080p/1080i/720p/480p/480i?

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Truth Teller @ Dec 18th 2007 2:56PM

*quote*
Do you also refer to 1080p sets as 1080p/1080i/720p/480p/480i?

==========================================================================

Why not?

If they can do it then they are, are they not?

(although stretching lower res over the larger native res can look plain horrible on so many of the 1080p screens.)

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rip @ Dec 18th 2007 3:27PM

Why not? Because it is misleading.

Yes, they can do it. But that doesn't mean they are.

Sets are specified by their native resolution. And should be listed by that specification. Additionally, "supported" resolutions are also listed, separately.

Otherwise, every set would be advertised as 1080i or 1080p since most hdtv sets can scale those resolutions.

A 480 set can display a 1080 image with a scaler. However, it is still a 480 set, not 1080.

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okeygrak @ Dec 18th 2007 4:03PM

"Truth Teller" = "Shit Spewer"

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okeygrak @ Dec 18th 2007 4:06PM

Seriously. Click on his name and view his list of comments. It's the most comprehensive list of useless fanboy drivel I've ever seen.

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Truth Teller @ Dec 18th 2007 4:13PM

okeygrak

LMAO

Too sad.

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Truth Teller @ Dec 18th 2007 4:39PM

I'm not saying that one should not refer to the maximum resiolution abilities of a TV at all (that would be ridiculous).

But I am saying that I think it's fair point that it could & should be made clear that an HD TV can properly handle the lesser resolutions too.

Far too many 1080p TVs look utterly horrible when they try to show lower resolution SD TV.
That's important for many people cos SD TV will be around for a long time to come (not forgetting personal things like DVD/Video collections etc etc).

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Morgan @ Dec 20th 2007 4:40AM

I recently purchased a Pioneer 5080 and it is simply fantastic. Everything looks good on it even SD television. If you're going to go plasma the only choice is Pioneer in my eyes.

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JermTool @ Jan 6th 2008 9:36PM

Yeah Pioneer Kuro (not Elite) is easily the best plasma manufacturer that isn't $10,000 or higher. I have a Sony LCD but damn am I kicking myself for not waiting for the new Kuros.

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