Pioneer PDP-5020FD 50-Inch 1080p KURO Plasma HDTV

The first look at the newest and final generation of the Kuro Plasma HDTV by Pioneer caused pandemonium at the 2006 CEATEC in Japan; the last of its kind to be manufactured exclusively from Pioneer.

Apropos for its name, Kuro is synonymous with darkest black in the Japanese language. The deep black that Kuro embodies is a black that commands the full spectrum of colours to pop simultaneously into brilliantly detailed flares. It is a black so seemingly liquid that one might envision dipping their fingertips through the glass, immersing it into such a vibrant reality that even strikes Mother Nature's heart with jealousy.

What a sin to refer to this fifty-inch, two million pixel miracle of media advancement as merely a television. Simply a vision of innovative technologies including singular cables, with HDMI-CEC control, that provides uninterrupted streams of auditory and visual perfection. Whatever the medium - Blu-Ray, DVD, etcetera - the four HDMI inputs guarantee incomparable audio/video quality.

Just some of the numerous features encompassed in this digital innovation allow for picture-in-picture, picture-side-picture, and still-photo galleries. Standard with USB and PC ports, computers are revolutionized into multimedia magic.

The extensive menu is equipped with seven options designed for maximum visual effect per genre; including Sports, Dynamic, and Movie modes. Pioneer even created and coined ‘Advanced Pure Cinema' to eradicate that trembling motion that lesser HD televisions possess, referred to as ‘jitter'.

Complete with a removable speaker base containing the top of the line in digital audio precision, the Pioneer PDP-5020FD 50″ KURO 1080p Plasma is surely a surreal feast for the visual and auditory senses.