| What is the top performing Plasma? |
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| Written by Kevin Miller | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sunday, 07 December 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
As of this writing the Pioneer Elite Kuro plasma panels are hands down the best plasmas money can buy from a picture quality/performance perspective. Models include the Pro-111FD, Pro-151FD, Pro-101FD, and Pro-141FD. The Pro-101 and Pro-141 are monitors only with some additional features, and some additional setup parameters over the regular Elite Pro-111 and Pro-151.
These panels have the best black level performance, measuring as low as .001 with a Minolta CS110 Light Meter, which is the limit of the instrument (HDTV Shootout Video). Overall color fidelity is also superior to any other flat panel on the market whether plasma or LCD. Color decoding is accurate, gamma is smooth and accurate, the grayscale is reasonably close (still minus blue and plus red) out of the box compared to other panels, and the primary and secondary colors are quite close to the ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) specifications when you follow the recommended settings from TweakTV.
Of course, professional calibration will put the icing on the cake with these panels by fine tuning all of these parameters to near perfection. Pioneer Elite panels were also the first to incorporate ISF ccc. ISF ccc software implementation gives the professional calibrator the ability to create two new A/V selections or Picture Modes, ISF Day and ISF Night, for every input being used on the TV. These modes are then locked so that no one can change the calibrated settings. This has some distinct advantages. The most obvious is the locking feature so that young children, or anyone for that matter, cannot inadvertently change the calibrated settings. Also, since ISF ccc implements additional new Picture Modes, this means you can still use all the other A/V selections, like Pure and Standard for example, with your own settings, and always revert back to a locked calibrated mode whenever you wish.
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