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Pioneer Kuro PDP-5080 50 inch HDTV Plasma

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Like most 50-inch plasma televisions, the Pioneer Kuro PDP-5080 HDTV has a screen resolution of 1,366 x 768 pixels. That’s not as many as competing (and usually more expensive) 1080p models. However, at the 50 inch screen size, the benefits of 1080p are dubious for most sources. While most plasmas do an adequate job of displaying blacks, the Pioneer Kuro PDP-5080 is exceptional! One flaw out of the box is its color accuracy. The Kuro’s accuracy is not the best, especially with greens. To achieve the best picture, an adjustment is definitely needed and can be easily tuned.

Design
The Pioneer Kuro PDP-5080, like most plasmas today, is very sleek in appearance. The shell is a glossy black with silver along the sides, bottom, and top of the set. From the front, only the black is visible. The Pioneer Kuro 50″ plasma includes a matching stand. It allows the speaker bar below the panel to be completely removed in case you want to use an external audio system exclusively.

Overall
This Pioneer 50-inch plasma TV displays a deeper shade of black with supreme shadow detail and a clean image with little noise. The Pioneer Kuro HDTV also has an anti-reflective screen which greatly reduces the glare of light. Although it isn’t 1080p, we don’t feel this is a problem for a set this size. We were hard pressed to find a difference between the picture from this set and one of the newer 1080p sets. Overall, we feel this is one of the best sets on the market, definitely worth purchasing.