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As well as their new Elite BDP-05FD and BDP-51FD Blu-ray players, Pioneer have also announced a fresh projector for their high-end KURO range. The Elite KURO Projector continues Pioneer’s track record of incredibly deep black levels, and supports full 1080p high-definition. It also has the latest LCoS 1080p processor.
Pioneer have revealed their latest two Blu-ray players, the Elite BDP-05FD and BDP-51FD. Both supporting BonusView extra disc content and 1080p True 24fps output, they have HDMI 1.3a ports, four Wolfson Professional Audio 12-bit digital-to-analog converters and the proprietary PureCinema Deinterlacer for upscaling standard definition DVDs. The Elite BDP-05FD also has gold-plated connections and capacitative [...]
Panasonic are set to launch its latest KURO high-end home entertainment component at a trade show in Munich, with the KRF-9000FD offering full 1080p resolution imagery. Thanks to LCoS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) technology the 9000FD manages an amazing 30,000:1 contrast ration, courtesy of JVC’s D-ILA reflective light crystal system. Full 1,920 x 1,080 native resolution [...]
Pioneer have released a number of high-end in-car entertainment systems for their AVIC-F range. The three models - AVIC-F700BT, AVIC-F900BT and Premier branded AVIC-F90BT - all feature XM and satellite radio compatibility, Bluetooth with conversational voice recognition that can be used to control navigation, voice control of a connected iPod and a 5.8-inch WVGA touchscreen. [...]
Last week we learned Pioneer will stop manufacturing the 42-inch line of Plasma flat TV and concentrate on 50-inch and larger only. This week the news from Far East is - they are ceasing the whole production of Plasma panels and will buy them from Panasonic instead.
No more value and budget size Plasma, It’s Kuro or we’ll get it from someone else. While many of us are still struggling to get the first value medium size flat screen, manufacturer like Pioneer is ceasing the production of a 42-inch plasma TV by end of March next year. They will continue to market [...]
The 140w x 10ch Ice-powered Pioneer AV receiver was announced back in last October with December release. The schedule was pushed to February due to specification changes in production level, now is looking at another postpone to late March.
Is a TV too thin when you can cut yourself on it? We’re not quite at that stage yet, but Pioneer are getting there with their Project KURO plasma TV: at just 9mm deep it’s the thinnest yet. They’ve also managed to achieve ‘extreme contrast’ - i.e. black sections of the screen emit no light [...]
The pricey line of Pioneer Elite Blu-Ray player, BDP-LX80, reported as US equivalent BDP-95FD, gets an update to version 3.2 at Japan. It improves subtitles usability as well as BD-Java menu. Current 95FD version at Pioneer US’s site is 3.15. It’s a 1.0 profile player so one could only hope continued support on the troublesome [...]
Sure, it works with CD’s too, but that’s about as analog as it gets. It will read, and work with, MP3’s off of both a computer and CD-R/RW discs.
If you are using it with a computer, it apparently navigates through your file system to find the files you want similar to an iPod. There are [...]
