Don’t just watch, don’t just listen, be transformed. be consumed. Be changed mind, body and soul by experiences so intense
they alter everything forever.
By colours so vibrant they twist the very fabric of your being. By sounds so pure they you don’t just hear them, you become them. By a world so real, so rich, so pure, so beyond anything you’ve ever experienced it surrounds your senses, takes hold of your emotions, shatters your expectations and nothing will ever be the same.
There’s a fascinating, enthralling world available to you.
A world where the highest expressions of sight and sound finally come together and awaken your senses — elevating them to a new level of consciousness. A world where emotions are built with feelings so deep that tears fall like lead, fear rages like wildfire, and passions swell like a rising flood.
And in this world, every experience you’ll ever have is like nothing you’ve ever known before. That’s because everything that exists in that world comes from an insatiable drive for perfection and an uncompromising attention to detail.
We should know — we built this world.
KURO, Adj. Black: Being of the achromatic colour of maximum darkness: Origin: Japanese.
When we set out to make a new display, our engineers sought to create the most immersive, experiential, emotionally powerful television experience possible. Period. Because we understand the passion
that goes into producing amazing images, sounds, emotions and art, and we share it.
So we started from scratch and dedicated ourselves to making
a truly revolutionary display that reproduces what the artist originally intended. And that meant, above all, achieving the blackest blacks imaginable.
Because when it comes to TV, black is everything. Black is the canvas. Black is the foundation. Black gives each colour greater definition, additional shades, more depth and the sharpest details. In red. In green.
In blue, and everywhere in between. A truly black black breathes life into
colour and forever changes the way you think about TV.
KURO Flat Panel Display
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And black, as you might expect, is at the very heart of what this television is all about.
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Pioneer’s New KURO Flat Screen TV
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Experience the True Black of KURO
Deeper Blacks for a More Vivid Picture
KURO, Japanese for "black," takes flat panel TVs to a new level of performance with the richest, deepest blacks yet achieved. This was made possible by the latest innovations in our plasma technology, together with the development of a new video processor. Why did we work so hard to reach these black levels? Because we know that only the deepest blacks can create the highest picture quality. Our new plasma display panels are "built for emotion" — offering you a new dimension of dramatic, realistic visual entertainment.
Advanced Plasma TV Technologies
Pioneer developed Crystal Emissive Layer technology to achieve deep black reproduction, and for our latest plasma panels, we’ve made it even better. We also refined the structure of the light emitting cells and employed a new electron source material to speed up the discharge rate in order to prevent spark discharge during black reproduction. As a result, we succeeded in reducing the minimum brightness to one-fifth of previous models. This enables the highest contrast ever achieved in the industry, so you can enjoy truly a vibrant and natural picture, even during dark scenes.
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KURO Improves Colour Performance
Deeper Blacks Mean More Vivid Colours
When blacks are deep and solid, colour reproduction also improves, with colours standing out sharply and brilliantly. Even at low brightness levels, the three primary colours of red, green, and blue are deeply and vividly produced, meaning that in night-time or shadowy scenes, colours will stand out beautifully without being assimilated into the darkness.
New Direct Colour Filter
The colour filter is also a key element determining picture quality. Pioneer’s proprietary high performance filter, the New Direct Colour Filter, effectively reduces reflections, ensuring solid blacks, optimum contrast and brilliant colours regardless of the light conditions—from bright sunlight to dark home theatre rooms. It also cuts annoying glare. All Pioneer PDP models use New Direct Colour Filters that provide enhanced chromatic purity for superior colour reproduction.
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Optimum Picture and Sound Quality, Automatically
New Optimum Mode
Pioneer’s exclusive New Optimum Mode automatically analyses the type of images being displayed and uses a Room Light Sensor to monitor the ambient brightness. The KRP-500A also accepts the optional KRP-SE01 colour sensor for monitoring the colour of thelighting.Basedontheinformationreceived,parametersettings areoptimisedsoyouenjoythebestpossible
picture no matter when you're watching or whether you’re watching movies, concerts, sports or other types of content. Even if the room brightness changes, you still get optimumpicturequality.
Adjusts for Best Sound Also
The New Optimum Mode not only optimises picture quality, it also adjusts for best sound quality to match the genre you are viewing.Basedon theresults of analysing thesourcecontent,it performs detailed sound adjustments using SRS, SRS FOCUS, SRS TruBass and SRS Definition. The result is sound that accentuates the excitement of the visual images. When watching a movie, you hear sound like you would hear in a movie theatre, and whenwatchingaconcert,youheardynamicandenergeticsound.
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The room light and room colour (temperature) changes throughout the day
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Network and E-mail Functions
By connecting the monitor to a PC via a LAN connection, you can fine-tune the picture quality on a web browser, and also transmit RS-232C commands. An E-mail function lets you send a variety of status information to an address you have set. You can send panel usage time, internal temperature, input signals, and problem notifications. It's a sophisticated way to monitor and control the picture quality of your monitor.
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120-Increment Image Tuning
These models offer a number of precise tuning functions generally found on professional monitors: 5-step gamma adjustment, and extra-fine 120-increment video adjustments including brightness and colour. You can perform these adjustments by switching the image at the push of a button to check the effects before and after tuning. You’ll enjoy the ability to delicately control colour nuances, image textures, and so on.
Fine-detail tuning of colour and contrast.
5-step gamma adjustment
120-step brightness/colour/tint adjustment
120-step adjustment of 6 parameters for RGB high and low
New, More Efficient OSD
The new Pioneer OSD lets you display more information with fewer operations. Designed to minimise the number of levels and make them more uniform, it lets you easily perform detailed adjustments, while quickly displaying menus and functions. You have a choice of 15 display languages.
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Ultra-clear Sound, Including Dialogue
Pioneer’s tradition of high sound quality, from deeply powerful bass to clear and sharp highs, is used to full advantage in t h e s e T V s . M o v i e dialogue, even when whispered, as well as the wide range of other delicate sounds, are always heard clearly. The power, tension, presence, and rhythmic f e e l o f m o v i e s a n d concerts are faithfully r e p r o d u c e d t o a d d greater excitement to the high resolution images.
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You can set and memorise parameters for optimum s o u n d q u a l i t y w i t h various picture modes, such as Movie mode and
Director mode. Each sound effect can be varied through four steps. You also get AVC (Auto Volume Control) that maintains the volume at a constant level even when the source volume varies (so you are not bothered by loud commercials).
Blends into Your Interior
Elegantly Thin at Only 64mm
KURO TVs enhance your interior not only with their beautiful images, but with their refined, elegant form. With a thickness of only 64mm, they are naturally lightweight as well. When hung on a wall, they can be mounted so they seem to be integrated with the wall surface, at a distance from the wall of only 89mm*. You will appreciate how they beautifully blend into your living space.
* KRP-600M when installed using KRP-WM01 wall mount unit.
Less Element Design
These KURO models embody Pioneer’s Less Element Design concept: absolutely minimising elements not needed for viewing. T h e y h a v e a l o g o w h i c h disappears if the surroundings become dark and which creates a
calm atmosphere in the viewing space, a frame made of luxurious material, and other unique KURO finishings. And by making the back panel simpler and flatter, the overall form is refined.
KURO Link
By connecting the KURO TV with a new LX A/V receiver and the LX Blu-ray Disc player, KURO LINK lets you operate the whole system’s basic functions, such as power on/off and playback through KURO’s remote control.
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