Panasonic PT-50LC14 50" Widescreen HD-Ready Television

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Product DescriptionSharp continues its LCD leadership with the 57-inch LC-57D90U. With a 16: 9 aspect ratio unbeatable resolution of 1920 x 1080 and unrivaled vivid color purity it is a next-generation TV to carry you into the high-definition future.The LC-57D90U utilizes Sharps proprietary Advanced Super View/Black TFT Panel which provides high brightness (450 cd/m2) exceptional 1500: 1 Contrast Ratio and wide viewing angles. With a fully integrated HDTV tuner and CableCARD compatibility the LC-57D90U is a complete state-of-the-art Digital Cable Ready HDTV. This means you can "plug and play" with a CableCARD from your HDTV-capable Cable-TV system provider without requiring a separate cable set-top box.The LC-57D90U features a Five-Wavelength Backlight System to make colors exceptionally vibrant and provide deeper more vivid reds and greens. And new Multi-Pixel Technology allows you to enjoy a clear TV picture in vivid color from anywhere in the room with 176-degree x 176-degree viewing angles.The LC-57D90U features an elegant titanium design with detachable speakers to ensure the sound is as outstanding as the picture. In addition the included table stand easily removes for wall mounting applications.

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Panasonic's PT-50LC14 practically writes the book on home-theater excitement. This high-definition liquid-crystal projection TV offers a perfectly flat, 50-inch display in a widescreen (16:9) dimension that's perfect for viewing DVDs and DTV movies in their native aspect ratios. The set is equipped with a total of 13 separate inputs, including 4 component-video inputs, a HDMI digital video input for a direct-digital connection with a DTV set-top box, and 2 PC inputs capable of VGA, SVGA, or compressed XGA resolution (1 rear, 1 front). A handy PCMCIA/SD Memory Card slot lets you hook up your computer for viewing a digital photo slide show.

The set offers a native resolution of 1,280 x 720 alongside high, 400 cd/m2 brightness ensures vivid, exacting images from DVD players and other devices. What's more, Panasonic's Progressive Scan Doubler will upconvert standard interlaced (non-progressive) broadcast and auxiliary signals to flicker-free, 480p resolution.

The PT-50LC14 is considerably less bulky than most rear-projection televisions and consumes less energy. Further, LCD displays don't suffer from misconvergence or flicker, like their CRT counterparts. The Panasonic multimedia display incorporates thin-film transistor (TFT) technology, also known as active matrix, to improve color reproduction, eliminate ghosting, and boost response speed.

Two-tuner picture-in-picture with split-screen display lets you view 2 programs at once by dividing the screen in half down the middle. Each program is shown at full height, with one program on the left side and the other on the right.

Movie sources get their due with Panasonic's 3:2 pulldown reversal feature, Progressive Cinema Scan. This enhancement compensates for motion artifacts that sometimes result from the telecine process that's used to convert film's 24-frames-per-second to an NTSC-friendly 60 frames per second. Other picture-enhancing features include horizontal and vertical edge correction and a motion-adaptive 3D Y/C digital comb filter, which eliminates "hanging dots" and color rainbow effects in closely spaced patterns.

The set's 2-way stereo speakers are powered by 15 watts per channel, and BBE ViVA HD3D Sound makes sure every program sounds its fullest and liveliest.

HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is a lossless, uncompressed, all-digital audio/video interface to link the set with any audio/video source (such as a set-top box, DVD player, or AV receiver). HDMI supports standard-definition (SD), enhanced definition (ED), or high-definition (HD) video, plus multi-channel digital audio--all using a single cable. It transmits all ATSC HDTV standards and supports up to 8-channel digital audio, with bandwidth to spare to accommodate future enhancements and requirements.

What's in the Box
TV, remote control, remote batteries, and a user's manual.

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