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Pioneer PRO920HD Plasma TV

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The Pioneer ELITE PRO920HD plasma TV reaches new heights in display technology and style, bringing intelligent engineering and classic design to your home theatre. The dramatic good looks of the ELITE plasmas will blend perfectly into any home décor, while exclusive Pioneer Plasma TV technology delivers simply the finest video display available today. All connections to the ELITE plasma series go through a separate (but included) Media Receiver, which maintains totally digital transmission for the highest signal quality and purest picture. The Media Receiver features dual NTSC TV tuners for P-I-P functionality, and provides all the inputs you need—now and in the future—including high-bandwidth component-video inputs and the new state-of-the-art HDMI digital interface.

Plasma Display Specifications
Screen Size	43" diagonal
Screen Aspect	16:9
Contrast Ratio	[not published]
Brightness	1100cd/m2
Pixel Pitch	[not published]
hSync	15.625 - 45.0 kHz
vSync	45.0 - 84.997 Hz
Color System	NTSC
Data Signals	VGA, SVGA, XGA, WXGA
TV Scan Lines	480i, 480p, 720p, 768p, 1080i
Input Terminals
Composite Video	4 (RCA)
S-Video	3 (4-pin mini DIN)
Component Video	3 (RCA x 3)
VGA RGB Signal	1 (15-pin mini d-Sub)
HDMI Interface	2
Serial Control (RS232C)	1 (9-pin mini d-Sub)
Output Terminals
Composite Video	1 (RCA)
S-Video	1 (4-pin mini DIN)
Digital Audio	1 (OPTI)
Plasma Monitor Accessories
Audio Amplifier	13W x 2
Speakers	Built In Speakers
Mounting Options	Table Stand Included
Also Included: Plasma Panel, Media Receiver, Speakers, Elite Swivel Stand, Smart Remote And 3 Meter Digital Connection 3 Way Speakers w/ Soft Dome Tweeter Can be Mounted Flush with The Panel Or Recessed
Dimensions and General Specs.
Power Supply	100-120V @ 50-60Hz
Power Consumption	[not published]
Dimensions	44-1/8" x 25-11/16" x 3-7/8"
Weight	67.25 lbs.
FCC Class	FCC Class B, Home Use

Pioneer PRO920HD Plasma TV

All connections to the ELITE plasma series go through a separate (but included) Media Receiver, which maintains totally digital transmission for the highest signal quality and purest picture. The Media Receiver features dual NTSC TV tuners for P-I-P functionality, and provides all the inputs you need—now and in the future—including high-bandwidth component-video inputs and the new state-of-the-art HDMI digital interface.

Pioneer Plasma Technology

First Surface Pure Color Filter - Brilliant, Lifelike Color
For the most accurate picture, Pioneer Plasma TV turns to the newly developed First Surface Pure Color Filter an industry first for plasma TVs. This technology creates blacker blacks, brilliant lifelike colors, great contrast levels, accurate color reproduction and true to life colors. The First Surface Pure Color Filter is optically adhered to the plasma glass, eliminating any air gap between the plasma glass and the filter found in other plasma televisions. By eliminating that air gap, Pioneer has further minimized light refraction making the picture even purer. The filter also uses a mesh infrastructure that acts like a mask for the light output, further enhancing its sharpness and black levels in almost any room environment.

Deep Encased Cell Structure - For Higher Brightness
The brightness in Pioneer PureVision plasma TVs is the result of the company's Deep Encased Cell Structure, which produces a greater light emission to achieve 60 percent higher brightness level than previous plasmas. This is achieved by making each cell deeper to increase the phosphor area, and by encasing each cell with horizontal ribs to prevent light leakage from neighboring cells.

HDTV Resolution
With a screen resolution of 1280 x 768, the PRO920HD is a true native XGA display, with a 768p widescreen picture. The Pioneer plasma TV screen is perfectly flat and flicker free, with no horizontal or vertical viewing limitations. Pioneer has also upped the ante by providing an industry first natural resize screen mode, digitally enhancing content that is 4:3 in nature, giving images less jagged edges and a more refined look.

ISF Color Calibration - For a Perfect Picture Anywhere
The nature of a phosphor-based technology like plasma is such that it looks great straight out of its box. However many custom installers and integrators prefer to adjust the television for a particular viewing area or a particular customers' taste. To enable this, Pioneer worked with the Imaging Science Foundation to implement ISF C3™ Calibration mode, which allows a certified calibrator to do advanced color calibration with never before achieved simplicity and reliability.

Advanced Continuous Emission III (ACE III)
This key Pioneer Plasma PureVision technology enables color and contrast that create larger-than-life images. Grayscale is improved with ACE III, which distinguishes 1,792 grayscale steps for each of the pixel colors to help keep the blacks truly black and provide finer gradations within the dark areas. Compared to 256 grayscale steps found in many other displays, Pioneer Plasma TV offers a tremendous advantage in making dimly lit scenes sharp and clear.

PureCinema Progressive Scan
Smooth reproduction of film-based content comes to fruition with Pioneer's Advanced PureCinema™ II, allowing for faithful and accurate reproduction of film content with the most natural images. Pioneer is the first to introduce 3:3 film detection at 72Hz, enabling this enhanced film reproduction.

Convenience Features

Pioneer Plasma TV leads the pack in user-friendly functionality with an improved graphical user interface with highly intuitive and attractive graphics, and a sophisticated remote control unit that makes operation a breeze. Low power consumption and noise levels complete the package of ultimate user convenience.

Digital Cable-Ready Tuner

For ease of use, Pioneer has incorporated a digital cable-ready tuner (DCR) into the television's media receiver offering a combination of ATSC tuner or CableCARD as well as dual NTSC tuners. This makes the televisions compatible with high-definition terrestrial broadcast transmissions as well as standard NTSC broadcasts. The media receiver also allows the consumer to input an array of sources including satellite, cable, DVD, VCR and computer signals up to wide XGA. The media receiver is digitally linked to the panel for optimal performance. It also offers multiple HDMI connections for a pure digital connection to external sources.

Pioneer ELITE plasmas offer a unique and unrivaled HDTV experience with the brightest, sharpest, most accurate picture quality available, state-of-the-art digital connection options, and built-in NTSC (standard television) and ATSC (HDTV) tuners complete with Cable Card technology.

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