Get the most out of your high-definition plasma television purchase with the 55-inch Hitachi 55HDS52, which offers a wealth of advanced technological features that will ensure superior picture and audio performance for years to come. It offers a slim profile with an integrated speaker design that can be easily wall-mounted with optional hardware, or sit comfortably in any home entertainment set-up with the optional powered tabletop stand (which is controlled via the remote). This set has built-in analog/digital tuners (NTSC/ATSC) that will receive free over-the-air HDTV signals (ATSC). It's also Digital Cable Ready (via the CableCard slot), so you can enjoy digital cable without an additional box or remote using an optional CableCard (provided by your cable operator). Plasma technology has revolutionized television with an ultra-thin display composed of millions of tiny red, green and blue fluorescent lamps. Plasma televisions are also exceptional for producing high quality images of fast motion content, like sports programming. The higher pixel density of Hitachi plasma HDTV results in smooth film-like curves and a highly detailed image.
Proprietary Hitachi video processing technology ensures superior performance, whether you're viewing a DVD, an over the air broadcast or HDTV from cable or satellite. The VirtualHD 1080p II technology analyzes every frame as a digital still image. An advanced technique, dynamic histogram processing, digitally maps the incoming signal to optimize on-screen contrast, color and sharpness. The VirtualHD 1080p II processor performs this highly sophisticated process in real time, for improved depth, detail, and color performance.
With its latest 55-inch plasma TVs, Hitachi introduces a completely new and innovative technology to large-scale plasma television. The advanced engineering in Hitachi Wide Aperture technology dedicates more screen surface to the actual viewable picture area. Brighter pixels combined with a black matrix between them deliver a brilliant picture with deeper, truer colors and better contrast.
The 55HDS52 offers a 768p display (1366 x 768), which scales 720p HDTV signals to fit the display. (More than 94 percent of the 720 HD signal is scaled to the display; due to variances in program productions and transmissions not all of the 720 signal is suitable for display.) The 4 MB 3D Y/C digital comb filter constantly analyzes the three dimensions of picture height, picture width, and picture changes-over-time to dramatically reduce edge image artifacts while improving transition detail. The anti-reflective, high-contrast screen effectively absorbs ambient room light, reducing reflections and producing richer blacks, vibrant color and increased detail in shadows and highlights.
The "learning" AV Net system simplifies operation of your complete home theater with one convenient interface. Infrared-based emitters integrate with on-screen commands to control up to four components. You can control external components like DVD players, VCRs and AV receivers or use the sophisticated AV NET to learn new commands that might be developed in new products. The AV NET system can also function as an infrared repeater system to allow you to hide your components behind closed doors and still operate them. Other features include:
- Multiple screen modes: A wide range of options for viewing standard 4:3 programming on the 16:9 widescreen display (three HD, and six SD).
- USB photo viewer: View your digital photos on-screen in vivid accurate color.
- Quick-start HDTV and NTSC tuners: Immediate access to digital channels upon power up.
- Day and night memory with timer: Produces a bright picture for daytime and a home theater picture for nighttime.
- Four color temperatures
- Mute and soft mute
- V-Chip parental controls
- Closed caption decoder
- Sleep timer
- Multiple screen savers
This set is equipped with SRS Surround Sound and BBE Sound enhancement for a more immersive home theater experience, and it features an optical digital output for easy connection to home theater audio systems. The integrated speakers produce a total of 40 watts of power (20 watts per left/right channel). It includes the following connection options: - Composite AV (RCA): 3 in (1 side)
- S-Video: 3 in (1 side)
- Component Video: 2 in
- HDMI: 2 in
- Monitor: 1 S-Video and 1 composite out
- PC RGB: 1 in
- Subwoofer: 1 out
- USB: 1 (side)
- Digital optical: 1 out
Tech Talk
HDMI is a lossless, uncompressed, all-digital audio/video interface to link any audio/video source (such as a set-top box, DVD player, or AV receiver) with your TV--all over a single cable. HDMI supports standard, enhanced or high definition video, plus multi-channel digital audio on a single cable. It supports all ATSC formats--standard (SDTV), enhanced (EDTV), and high (HDTV).
Component video (also called Y/Pb/Pr) features a three-jack video input, which provides separate connections for luminance (Y), blue color difference (PB) and red color difference (PR). This results in increased bandwidth for color information, resulting in a more accurate picture with clearer color reproduction and less bleeding than you would get with S-Video or composite (RCA yellow video plug) connections. You will need a separate RCA left/right audio cable for sound.
What's in the Box
Plasma TV, remote control (with batteries), printed operating instructions
Product Description
Offers a wealth of advanced technological features that will ensure superior picture and audio performance for years to come. It features a slim profile with an integrated speaker design that can be easily wall-mounted with optional hardware, or sit comfortably in any home entertainment setup with the optional powered tabletop stand.
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