Enter a world dedicated to the pursuit of pristine vision and flawless sound. Where everything you see is stunningly clear. Where everything you hear is unbelievably pure.
A world where images so lifelike, motion so fluid and detail so great are just par for the course. A world where streaming HD movies, music and digital photos from a networked PC to your TV are so effortless they become part of your everyday life, thanks to the Home Media Gallery feature. It's a universe of things never before possible. Where the unimaginable becomes commonplace. It's an experience so unbelievably different, so undeniably powerful and so completely extraordinary, it will change the way you look at TV forever.
Open your eyes and prepare your ears for a world that looks and sounds completely different from anything that has come before. Open your eyes to a world where high-definition movies, music, digital photos or online media all perform in ways you've never seen or heard before — on a glorious shrine to sight and sound. It's world that will change the way you see and hear TV forever. Setup Our basic setup procedure remains the same. As you can see from this initial category, the Picture Menu is full of a wide range of tools and options that can make the timid hesitant to venture in too deep.
Luckily, Pioneer offers a Before and After feature. When you are tweaking an adjustment, you can press the Blue button on the remote and the display will revert to the previous setting.
Press it once again and you return to the new adjustment. Of course, if you really do not wish to get your hands greasy fiddling around under the hood, I would suggest that you have the PROHD professionally installed and calibrated. I usually don't say that. And it's really no reflection on the difficulty of setting this TV up.
I found it no harder than others. For the DIYers out there, Pioneer supplies every wrench you will need to tune up this roadster to your eye's delight. And the manual does a fairly decent job of describing the controls. Performance First and fundamentally, black. I sometimes had a difficult time seeing where the screen ended and the black bezel began.
As I mentioned colors occasionally were too rich for my taste. But when the picture turned toward the Technicolor, I reached for the remote and dialed down the saturation to satisfy my more muted sensibilities. As you may know, I'm particularly skittish about skin tones.
And occasionally a wan waif's complexion looked like a a rosy cheeked English schoolboy's. With that said, I could spend paragraphs extolling the beauty of this plasma's image. And the common everyday experience was that I would see a scene and I would think, "That's the way high definition TV should look.
To add to my viewing pleasure, standard definition programs fared better on this HDTV than on many others I have seen. Pioneer seems to have made an extra effort to produce the best looking picture possible from SD content.
Don't get too excited, SD material will never look as good as HD programs. But I believe for most people, especially sitting over seven feet away, they will never be able to tell the difference. Therefore, I think it would be a splendid choice for a home theater. Actually, with its networking capabilities, the PROHD also could act as the display hub of a modern home entertainment system.
All you need to do is plug it into your network through its Ethernet port. The integrated Home Media Gallery software will search for the available networks and through the on-screen menu, you can pick one to attach to.
If you have media server software set up on your computer system, you can access audio, video, and photo files directly from the TV's menu using your remote. Now, in the manual, Pioneer talks about compatibility with Windows networks, which is what I have with Vista. For me, access and playback worked flawlessly. I did not have a chance to try it on a Mac or Linux based network. Of course, if you don't wish to futz with a network, you can still plug a USB storage device into the port on the panel on the side.
The Home Media Gallery will find the files and you can customize slideshows and even include music in the background. One added feature is that the program is not limited to reading just JPEG image files.
But if you are making this plasma the cornerstone of your home theater, then honor the quality of the image with a suitably matched high end audio system. This black beauty delivers the features and the quality that you would expect in an HDTV in this price range. I would be delighted to find a home for this plasma in my home theater. First, realize, that ratings are relative to when the review was written.
Second, we have given only a precious few 5 Star ratings, which we reserve for truly outstanding accomplishment. Performance: 5. Features: 5. The Home Media Gallery elevates it to a 5.
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