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TH-65VX100U

Panasonic's 65VX100U Premiere Kuro-Killing Plasma Reviewed (Verdict: Best Flat Panel to Date)

Just yesterday we got our first taste of Panasonic's new TH-65VX100U plasma technology, which features specs that meet or exceed Pioneer's Kuro. Our initial impressions were extremely positive, but Gary at HD Guru managed to get his hands on an early production sample for a closer look, and he too was impressed. In fact, he called it the "new king of flat panels." More »

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5:52 PM on Fri Sep 5 2008
By Sean Fallon
11,460 views, 13 comments

Latest by Assassin_Kensei: Being Panasonic in Plasma is like being ATi in Video Cards your always second, but you try to out shine more »

cedia 2008

Panasonic 65VX100U Premiere Plasma Is a Kuro Killer?

Tonight in Denver, Panasonic revealed its newest plasma technology, the 65" custom-install-only VX100 monitor, whose specs meet or beat Pioneer's hallowed Kuro. That means 60,000:1 contrast ratio with 7,160 shades of gradation for visible detail in the darker shadows. At 65 inches, you will pay $10,000 a panel, but not to worry: Panasonic will roll out a 50 incher soon, which is sure to be (a teeny tiny tad) cheaper. We sat in a dark room and got to compare the VX100 with its predecessor, the 65PF. Though the results in the room were startlingly vivid, you can get a sense of what's going on here in our still shots:If you're really crazy about TV technology, jump for a second gallery of slides from the presentation—but, as they say on MythBusters, there's some "science content" ahead, so put the drink down and focus... More »

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8:52 PM on Thu Sep 4 2008
By Wilson Rothman
10,695 views, 21 comments

Latest by chadmak09: Panasonic will be building glass for pioneer to pioneer spec. thats it. thats all. Panasonic is not making kuro plasmas.So more »

cedia 2008

Sony's $2000 BDP-S5000ES Flagship Blu-ray Player: Stuck Between Pioneer and a PS3

Sony is trying to bargain with potential buyers of Pioneer's $2,200 BDP-09FD: For $200 less, you can get yourself the BDP-S5000ES. Meanwhile, it's equally intended to regain the love of all those home-theater enthusiasts who bee-lined it for the PS3 (rather than a dedicated BD player) because of its networking and speed. More »

7:00 PM on Wed Sep 3 2008
By Wilson Rothman
2,537 views, 14 comments

Latest by OneObuyan: @dagamer34: Actually, the high end Decks from Pioneer - Denon - Onkyo and a few others offer both [Upscaling & more »

home theater

Pioneer Sneaks Out $2200 Elite BDP-09FD; First Blu-ray Player That Crushes the PS3

Last May Pioneer told us that autumn would bring a "super duper" Blu-ray player—the most powerful Blu-ray player ever built. It makes up for the current crop, which are lower in price but are missing key features like BD-Live for internet-based content. Well, not a leaf has fallen off a tree, yet here it is already, the $2,200 Elite BDP-09FD. Feature-wise, the best Blu-ray player on the market has been the PS3—turns out, an extra $1,700 will buy you something that kills Sony's game console as far as Blu-ray and other media are concerned. More »

5:05 PM on Fri Aug 22 2008
By Wilson Rothman
21,474 views, 56 comments

Latest by Kartune: @kaizoku80: haha yeah man, you're soo right lol more »

tool chests

We Dare You To Find A More Badass Tool Chest

This isn't the tool box you'd likely see at your local garage right now. No, this is straight out of a gearhead's rock n' roll fantasy: A huge tool chest that also comes with an integrated Pioneer sound system and beer fridge. Top that off with self-illumination and built-in power strip and you've got almost everything you'd need. Except tools. At $1600 it's something you might actually start seeing in hobbyist garages soon. I know my stepdad's going to want one. [Kobalt tools via Uncrate]

10:30 PM on Fri Aug 1 2008
By Matt Hickey
5,557 views, 27 comments

Latest by N/A: Nothing says smart like countless thousands worth of tools on wheels!!! My grand dad lost a lifetime of tools that exact more »

hdtv

Wait to Buy! HDTVs About To Get Even Cheaper

Wait on buying your TV. Fresh off a round of price-cuts barely two months old, Mitsubishi, Sharp, Panasonic and Samsung will drop prices on their sets by as much as $400 in the coming weeks. More »

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4:55 PM on Mon Jul 14 2008
By Benny Goldman
97,855 views, 42 comments

blu-ray recorders

Pioneer Going Blu-ray For Set-Top Recorders

Blu-ray set-top players are expected to be hot sellers this upcoming holiday season, but you might want to hold off until early next year when Pioneer and Sharp team up to bring Blu-ray recorders to living rooms in America. The partnership is hardly surprising—Sharp is part owner of Pioneer—and the recorders will launch in Japan this year and be shipped overseas next, with Europe and America likely being the first markets to get them. No word if they'll use those awesome new ultra-high-capacity disks we mentioned earlier, but not likely for this consumer-focused line. [Reuters]

10:00 PM on Tue Jul 8 2008
By Matt Hickey
1,539 views, 10 comments

Latest by N/A: That looks like an old DV-333, which was probably one of the best DVD players out in many years. I'd more »

best tv ever

Pioneer Gen 2 Kuro Elite PRO-111FD Plasma Reviewed: New King of TVs, If You Got the Ransom

Last week we saw Panasonic's latest 50-inch TH-50PZ850U posing a serious challenge to the long-enshrined King of All TVs, the Pioneer Kuro plasma. But now our buddy Gary at HD Guru put the all-new second-gen Kuro 50-incher, the Kuro Elite PRO-111FD, up against the potential throne-usurping Panasonic 850. The verdict? As we predicted, the Kuro is once again "best TV ever," says Gary. More »

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1:45 PM on Mon Jul 7 2008
By John Mahoney
12,406 views, 25 comments

Latest by N/A: @ThisCharmingMan: Yeah, there's this new technology called "pixel-shifting".... rotates the pixels on a constant basis to prevent burn in. Gotta love more »

blu-ray

Pioneer Pushes Blu-ray Discs to 16 Layers, 400GB Capacity

Just last month we were reporting 42GB research DVD technology, but Panasonic's scientists have blown that figure out of the water with a 400GB optical disc. The trick's been done by making a 16-layer deep Blu-ray disc, and a player with sufficiently clever optics that it can pick up the light scattered by all those layers. The player is also compatible with standard Blu-ray, and for now it's limited to playback only, designed to demonstrate the technology. But apparently in the future you'll be able to burn 400GB Blu-ray discs, which is mind boggling. [Impress]

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5:18 AM on Mon Jul 7 2008
By Kit Eaton
6,582 views, 51 comments

Latest by N/A: this makes having disk backups realistic again! more »

plasma

Panasonic THX Display Certified Viera TH-50PZ800U New King of Plasmas (for Now)

After months of reigning as the best TVs on the planet, Pioneer's Kuro is finally challenged for the throne by Panasonic's THX Display-certified Viera TH-50PZ800U. It's the THX mode that gives it the edge, with its superior color accuracy and uniformity making it "one of the best-performing plasmas" Cnet has tested, even though the blacks (while very good) still aren't at Kuro level. And of course, this isn't compared to the new super-thin, super-black Kuros rolling out later this year. So enjoy the crown while you've got it, Panny. [Cnet]

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8:10 PM on Wed May 28 2008
By matt buchanan
7,422 views, 13 comments

Latest by N/A: Pioneer are going to buy all their screen from Panasonic!Panasonic can use the Kuro technology in return! more »

home entertainment

Pioneer Kuro 2008 First Impressions: New Thin Plasma and Projector Beat All

Today we took a look at the Kuro 2G plasma compared to the 1G and others. We also had a look at the JVC-made projector that Pioneer is branding Kuro Elite. The hype—if not the price—seems totally worth it. But instead of trying to tell you how much I enjoyed the display of in-yer-face contrast comparison, take a look at the pics I snapped. I marked some with shutter speeds, so you can get a better sense of what we saw. More images of the thinnest Elite plasma monitor and a look at the projector after the jump. More »

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12:29 PM on Wed May 7 2008
By Wilson Rothman
23,593 views, 29 comments

Latest by gus738: wilson the first picture what what model is that ? more »

home entertainment

Pioneer Elite SC-07 and SC-05 Flagship Receivers (Plus the VSX-03TXH and VSX-01TXH)

Pioneer's got new Elite 7.1 receivers, the high end SC-07 and SC-05, and the lesser VSX-03TXH and VSX-01TXH. The SC-07 has a Burr Brown Sampling Rate Converter (SRC) to upscale audio to 192 kHz 24-bit res, and dual HDMI outputs for multiroom output. The SC-07 and SC-05 also work with Pioneer's new Blu-ray player to activate the "Precision Quartz Locking System (PQLS) that synchronizes data between the Blu-ray Disc player and the receiver, providing listeners with the ultimate precision in CD playback." I kid you not, Pioneer is working on making CDs the yesterday technology of tomorrow! All four receivers do new lossless formats ("DTS-HD Master Audio, DTS-HD High Resolution, Dolby® TrueHD and Dolby® Digital Plus" ) and room tuning.

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9:00 AM on Wed May 7 2008
By Brian Lam
10,176 views, 22 comments

Latest by graham1010: What would you do with 9 s-video ports? Looks great though. more »

blu-ray

Pioneer Confirms BDP-51FD and Elite BDP-05FD Profile 1.1 Blu-ray Players; "Super-Duper" BD-Live Player Coming This Fall

When the other Blu-ray heavies Sony, Panasonic and Samsung are in various stages of introducing Ethernet-equipped BD-Live players (aka BD Profile 2.0), Pioneer comes out with two players, the $600 BDP-51FD and the $800 Elite BDP-05FD, that meet just the 1.1 spec, for picture-in-picture BonusView content. We heard about it via a reliable leak, but now we've got models, pricing and another interesting confirmation: Pioneer's Blu-ray marketing manager Chris Walker tells us that the company will launch a BD-Live player, in fact, a "super-duper flagship-status piece," this fall. More »

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9:00 AM on Wed May 7 2008
By Wilson Rothman
6,649 views, 7 comments

Latest by heroineworshipper: Guess that means the Sony player won't support Spec Revision 2 either. more »

home entertainment

Pioneer's 2008 Kuro Line: Thinner Blacker Plasmas and an LCOS Projector But No LCDs

Today Pioneer is revealing its official 2008 Kuro TV lineup for the US. As we expected from European announcements, it includes second-generation Kuro plasmas—thinner, with five-times-deeper black levels than the first critically acclaimed Kuro plasma—and a Kuro-branded LCOS projector originally developed by JVC. What's missing here are the smaller-sized Kuro LCDs that Pioneer is offering European flat-panel shoppers. Here's the full product rundown, plus the reason for the missing LCD piece of the puzzle: More »

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9:00 AM on Wed May 7 2008
By Wilson Rothman
10,347 views, 22 comments

Latest by OMG! Ponies!: Yay televisions! Perfect timing for launching them too, what with this recession. more »

giz explains

Giz Explains: Plasma TV Basics

In this week's Giz Explains—if you haven't noticed, it's a weekly series that breaks down a sticky piece of tech into something more digestible for people whose bellies aren't quite made of nerd steel—we're looking at plasma TVs. Plasma. It just sounds sci-fi. More »

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2:00 PM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By matt buchanan
31,423 views, 46 comments

Latest by Bitstuff: What altitude does a plasma need to be for it to explode? By explode I mean for the itsy bitsy more »

kuro

Confirmed: Panasonic and Pioneer Teaming Up for Plasma Panels

When Pioneer announced it was going to stop making its own plasma panels and outsource them to another company, informed speculation was that they were buddying up with Panasonic. A press conference earlier today confirmed that's the case, and Kuro will use the same Neo PDP panels that are going into Panasonic's Viera plasma sets. More »

11:31 AM on Thu Apr 24 2008
By matt buchanan
2,442 views, 4 comments

Latest by deadatbirth: i thought this was already confirmed when they made the original announcement. more »

pioneer

AVIC-F High-End Navigation Systems from Pioneer Rocks Voice Control

Talking to your gadgets is the first sign of madness, but people who insist on doing it should look at Pioneer's AVIC-F systems. The three models, the AVIC-F700BT, AVIC-F900BT and the AVIC F90BT all have a type of voice control developed by Pioneer alongside VoiceBox Technologies, which filters out the "um" and "ah" in everyday conversations to decipher your commands. More »

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9:45 AM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By AddyDugdale
7,884 views, 7 comments

Latest by hnkelley: @geekinky: And it better provide one heck of a hummer at that! more »

blu-ray

Pioneer's 2008 Blu-ray Player Line Leaked

A source tells us that in May, Pioneer will announce two new Blu-ray players, including the Elite BDP-05FD you see above. Surprisingly, they won't be Profile 2.0, just 1.1 (so PIP but no Ethernet), but they will have some other talents: More »

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1:40 PM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By Wilson Rothman
6,735 views, 16 comments

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