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The Hitachi 55PD9700, at 55 inches, it’s one of the biggest HD ready sets you can buy. It uses an ultra-efficient E-ALIS <(Alternate Lighting of Surfaces) plasma panel, which delivers high-brightness and high-intensity images, with a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. The TV also uses Hitachi's Picture Master HD chipset, which now incorporates colour detection, enabling the TV to identify and analyse individual colours, to deliver much more accurate colour adjustment, including pure red, which is, traditionally, the hardest colour for a plasma TV to reproduce accurately. At the TV's heart is a fast, 1080p processor, which has the power and processing speed to sample every pixel, rather than a random selection. That mainly benefits high definition broadcasts, but standard definition content is also improved through upscaling. Read more

Klegg’s Plasma HDTV line Klegg KP 6300 which includes 42, 50, 55, and 63 inch models. These aluminum chassis and framed TVs display remarkable clarity and definition thanks to Klegg Electronics True Cinemaâ„¢ video processing and new anti-glistening technology for an enhanced visual experience. Using high quality TFT panels, Klegg has engineered an anti-glistening liquid crystal layer to enhance transparency, contrast and picture definition while reducing light beam dispersions and reflection. Klegg’s line of Plasma HDTVs is available immediately from select authorized dealers.

Klegg’s Plasma HDTV’s are engineered with the highest quality Plasma panels and include an ATSC/NTSC TV tuner for over-air High Definition reception and HDMIDVI and VGA compatibility. Discrete IR- codes for universal remote programming and discrete RS-232C codes make Klegg Plasma’s perfect for custom and commercial installation applications. Klegg’s signature aluminum bezels and chassis provide ample heat dissipation to keep LCD panels cooler while providing a durable, luxurious look.
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The 55-inch Hitachi 55HDX62 UltraVision CineForm Director’s Series Plasma HDTV ($6,999.99 list) offers a stylish design and plenty of quality touches, but this premium television failed to deliver a premium picture. The 55HDX62 allowed common image artifacts to taint standard-definition video, and its performance as a high-definition plasma display was comparable with that of a good panel from a year and a half ago. Hitachi televisions are among the best in the world, and the 55HDX62’s showing suggests a modernized successor is overdue.

It’s difficult to recommend a plasma display that costs as much as the 55HDX62 when it offers little improvement over older panels. The 55HDX62 also Read more

LG Electronics has announced its 50PC1DR HDTV plasma TV, which boasts a built-in 160 GB DVR that allows users to pause, rewind, and replay live TV. It also provides continuous automatic recording in one-hour intervals.

The black and silver finished plasma features LG’s XD Engine technology that includes six distinct processes that help to improve brightness, contrast, and detail, thus minimizing bleeding of colours. It delivers 10,000:1 contrast; and has a double HDMI connection.

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The 42HDS69’s native resolution of 1,080i through a pixel configuration of 1,024 x 1,080, and has viewing enhancements like the anti-reflective screen and ALiS pixel barrier minimization technology, and features three each of component three HDMI inputs - two on the back on and one on the side, along with an optical audio out and CableCard support.

The plasma will retail for about $2499 and will be available very soon.

* Diagonal size
* 42 in

* Image aspect ratio
* 16:9

* HDTV compatible
* Yes
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Hitachi’s new HDTVs include a 1080 plasma screens lines and four slim 120Hz LCD televisions.

Hitachi has taken the wraps off three new series of 42-inch and 55-inch plasma HDTVs plus four new LCD television offerings which, as they ship this year, at least make your HDTV options more plentiful and complicated.

Plasma HDTVS

Hitachi’s new plasma televisions will be available in both 42-inch and 55-inch configurations, and Hitachi says the 42-inch models—the 42HDS69, the 42HDT79, and 42HDX99 —will be the first plasma screen to bring 1080i resolution to that size.

The 42-inch and 55-inch UltraVision models will feature Hitachi’s PictureMaster III processor, giving the 42HDS69 ($2,499) a 1024 by 1080 resolution and the 55HDS69 ($4,299) a 1365 by 768 resolution. Both sizes will features three HDMI and three component inputs, a six-speaker 36-watt audio system, and are designed to look like they were hewn from a single slab of aluminum. They’re expected to ship in June 2006—well, Hitachi says “this month,” but really, it’s almost June, right?

The UltraVision CineForm 42-inch and 55-inch models have all the features of the HDS69 series (above), with the addition of an onscreen TV Guide programming guide, an adjustable color decoder, two IR outputs (and an IR pass-through), and a USB photo input. The list price for the 42HDT79 will be $2,999, the 55-inch 55HDT79 will be $4,799; both units are expected to be available in July 2006. Read more