Panasonic PT-47WX42 42-Inch 16:9 HDTV-Ready Projection TV

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See how much better home entertainment can be with a 47M-^RM-^R widescreen HDTV monitor. It features 3:2 Film Correction for movies that look their best, and a 3D-Y/C digital comb filter for a crisp, clean picture. ItM-^Rs HD-ready, so you can add an HDTV receiver and experience the excitement of high-definition broadcasts. Numerous inputs offer flexibility in home theater design, and the 2-tuner picture-in-picture lets you view multiple screens in a variety of formats, including a split-screen display.

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The PT-47WX42's wide, fine-pitch screen (0.52mm) is loaded with features to make DVD and HDTV viewing as simple and as pristine as possible. The set's HDTV/EDTV display capability (1080i, 480p) lets you view high-definition or enhanced-definition TV programming from an external DTV set-top box with an ATSC receiver (not included; an external over-the-air antenna may be required). Progressive Cinema Scan (3:2 pulldown) provides faithful reproduction of film-based materials. DVD mastering introduces a common distortion when adjusting 24-frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video. Progressive Cinema Scan digitally corrects this distortion, removing the redundant information to display a film-frame-accurate picture.

Two-tuner picture-in-picture with split-screen display lets you view two programs at once by dividing the screen down the middle. Each program is shown at full height, with one program on the left side and the other on the right. Motion-Adaptive 3D-Y/C digital comb filter displays bright colors and action scenes with incredible clarity by minimizing the "color rainbow effect" in closely spaced patterns, compensating for the motion that occurs between fields. Included 10-bit, 60 MHz analog-to-digital image processing boosts conventional grayscale from 256 to 1024, to deliver four times as many shades of black and white. Digital velocity-modulated scanning is advanced circuitry along the neck of the CRT that senses transitions from black to white in the video signal. The black and white portions of the signal are sped up and slowed down, respectively, resulting in sharp black-to-white transitions. For a more film-like picture when watching movies, you may want to selectively turn off this circuitry.

Other features include horizontal and vertical edge correction, Artificial Intelligence Picture Control (continuously monitors signal conditions to maintain high contrast), Artificial Intelligence Sound Control (prevents variances in sound level), Video Noise Reduction (compares individual pixels of two consecutive fields, then removes noise), color temperature control, BBE High-Definition Sound (improves speech intelligibility and restores musical dynamic range), and simulated stereo sound (which works with stereo and monaural programs), and an illuminated remote control called the Director, which can be programmed to control many current video and audio devices.

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