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Pioneer PDP-5020FD 50-Inch 1080p KURO Plasma HDTV
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Height: 28.50 inches
Width: 48.50 inches
Length: 3.70 inches
Weight: 74.50 pounds
Model: PDP-5020FD
Manufacturer: Pioneer
Color: Gloss Black
Display Size: 50 inches
Model SKU: B001AAPEDC
The best TV ever made
by Digital Puer
from Los Angeles, CA USA,
2010-03-14
I've had this TV since January 2009, and the picture clarity continues to amaze me. Colours are pristine, and the image is absolutely razer sharp. Watching a 1080 broadcast is like looking out a window. At the time I purchased it, I checked out every LCD at the local Best Buy, and none of them came even remotely close to the Kuro.
The only nitpick with this Kuro is that it makes a slight buzz that's audible from 7 feet away when there is no ambient noise. During the daytime, when there's traffic outside, I cannot hear the buzz, but at night with everything quiet, the buzz is fairly evident. I've been told that every plasma has this noise. To reduce it, I set the picture brightness to the middle value (out of three values).
Overall, still the best TV made. It is a true shame that Pioneer left the HDTV market.
Still the king even today
by Curtis Knight
,
2009-12-06
Still the best TV ever created the 9th gen Pioneer Kuro's still have not been topped even today. Don't settle for inferior LCD tech or a step down with Panasonic plasma's. Get the real deal...the King..Pioneer Kuro.
UNBELIEVABLY AWESOME TV
by Jeffrey N. Miller
,
2009-10-31
Words can't do justice as to how great this TV is...
We have now had this TV since March 2009. We were able to purchase the TV at a great deal from Best Buy for 2000.00.
The picture is amazing right out of the box. I have been using the optimum setting with the light sensor on for blu ray
viewing. The optimum setting provides a perfect picture and really provides a real pop to objects. The TV at this point
appears to be almost broken in (the blacks are becoming deeper).
I have been surprisingly impressed by the quality of a standard TV source. Proportions look very good and picture looks actually quite good.
Using a blu ray source the picture quality is unbelievable. The picture is life like with numerous shades of black.
Movies like Saturday Night Fever really pop out of the screen and sound from the speaker bar is also extremely good.
This TV is unbelievable! I have been extremely happy with this TV. It is everything I was looking for in a TV after looking for many months at
all other products on the market. To date, I still don't see any TV that matches the performance of this TV.
We are using this TV in our bedroom and use it mostly at night. We also have an LCD TV in the living room that
can't even compare to this TV an any way.
It is too bad Pioneer is exiting this business. They appear to have put a lot of engineering into this TV. One particular aspect is the black
background of the plasma panel itself. This appears to be a proprietary process of Pioneer that helps the TV achieve amazing black levels.
The TV is very well built. I expect to be happily using it for many years.
Has lived up to all its hype
by J. Robert Barbour
from NY, NY,
2009-09-15
I have now owned this plasma tv for about a year and it is still amazing to look at it. I have other LCD's in the house and they do not even come close to the quality of this TV. It is a shame that Pioneer is exiting this space, more of a shame that quality no longer matters to enough people to pay for the difference any more.
Pioneer Plasma will knock your socks off!
by andrewbaggins
from Washington,
2009-08-03
We wanted to replace our 40-inch Sony KV-40XBR700 picture tube HDTV. Unlike most LCD televisions, the Sony picture tube set has very natural color, a very wide viewing angle, and very good built-in speakers. Unfortunately, the old Sony weighs 304 lbs. (yes, really!) and it sticks out a long way into the room. So, where could we get a replacement that would retain the best features of the Sony? Accurate color? Wide viewing angle? Very good built-in speakers?
The answer was the Pioneer KURO PDP-5020FD 50-inch plasma. We've had it a little over 3 months and, in a word, it's OUTSTANDING. The Sony picture tube TV was very good but this Pioneer plasma is simply terrific in every way.
On the MOVIE setting, we played the THX setup thing on our Pirates of the Caribbean DVD (not BLU-RAY). Guess what? No adjustments were needed. We did this in a darkened room with just a small lamp on in the corner of the room.
We have large windows in the room so daytime viewing requires a higher contrast setting. Mostly we use Optimum setting with the room light sensor enabled, or just set it on Standard without the room light sensor. Looks great either way. Don't let anyone tell you that a plasma isn't bright enough.
Watched a golf tournament on the Sports setting. Wow - that was a dazzling experience! Can hardly wait for football season to start...
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HDTV reception is from Comcast cable. We record almost everything on the Comcast DVR (made by Motorola) so we can skip through the commercials. HD programs look very good indeed, and even standard-definition programs come across smooth and clear (with the rare exception of washed-out or jagged 30 year-old reruns!). Movies broadcast in HD are a real treat, too.
You won't find more natural-looking color than the Pioneer anywhere, and you can sit way off to the side and still see a crisp clear picture. This is way better than LCD sets.
Oh, I almost forgot. There is no motion blur whatsoever on this TV! Plasma TVs simply don't have that problem. So, fast moving sports action is limited only by the quality of the broadcast, not by the TV. (Some channels deliver blocky, pixelated effects on close-up fast action, possibly because of excessive compression. Have seen the effect on all types of TVs.)
We bought our Pioneer on a 2-day or 3-day sale at [...] That's the nearest thing to a "steal" that you could possibly hope for on a top quality model such as this!
Regarding hookup, the delivery guys were just two guys in a hurry to finish all their deliveries. They wanted to leave the unopened carton on our porch and drive away. We insisted they unbox the set and place it on our stand in the living room and wait while we turned it on to make sure it worked before they left.
For this review to be balanced we should say something negative about the TV. OK, here it is: Plasma TVs radiate a fair amount of heat from the screen. Right now we're having a local heat wave with temperatures exceeding 100 degrees each day. Adding extra heat from the Pioneer TV doesn't help our air-conditioning much!
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