Pioneer ULTIMATE DIGITAL AUDIO/VIDEO ENTERTAINMENT User Manual page 19

Ultimate digital audio/video entertainment

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PURE Drive 2

VIVID AND REALISTIC COLOURS

With Pioneer's colour adjustment settings, you can easily adjust the colour to your own taste. White tones can be adjusted with the Colour Temperature setting. Colour

Management allows you to individually adjust a colour without affecting adjacent colours, for more vivid and true colour reproduction. Digital CTI (Colour Transient

Improvement) brings the edges of coloured images into sharp relief, so pictures are clear and distinct.

CLEAR AND NOISE-FREE IMAGES

Pioneer Plasma TVs offer you clear, noise-free images, thanks to several top-notch technologies. Digital

Noise Reduction minimises picture noise, reproducing images true to the original. MPEG Noise Reduction*

reduces mosquito noise typical for MPEG video images without losing detail, useful when viewing DVDs or

digital TV channels. When watching analogue TV, you can rely on Tuner Noise Reduction* to automatically

adapt the noise reduction level to the signal strength. The 3D Y/C separation filter* for PAL TV optimally

separates the brightness (Y) and colour (C) signals, so no colour artefacts occur. The total result is

drastically improved picture quality, without disturbing noise.

* Not available for PDP-615EX.

SMOOTH AND NATURAL COLOURS

NATURAL COLOUR TRANSITIONS

Pioneer's quest for image perfection has resulted in the i-CLEAR Drive technology. Pictures are analysed and then colour gradation and

brightness levels are automatically optimised on-screen. New multi-bit processing increases the range of gradation levels, so even more

colours can be reproduced. Darker picture areas are especially enhanced — with more gradation steps — so there's even more detail to discover.

Conventional Plasma:

Gradation steps are visible

SMOOTH PICTURE REPRODUCTION

Thanks to Pioneer's Dynamic HD Conversion, images are

sharp and clear. After scanning the 84 surrounding

pixels, each pixel is individually optimised. Pictures are smoother than they have

ever been before.

SHARP AND RICH-IN-CONTRAST PICTURES

With Pioneer Plasma TVs, there's no problem of dull or faded pictures. Because the Dynamic Range Expander is at work behind the scenes to enhance light and dark

areas. How? After making a dynamic analysis of the complete image, a collection of technologies continuously adjusts the picture according to its characteristics. You'll

notice a marked improvement in the contrast and a sharper presentation — with more details in dark picture areas.

SUPERIOR IMAGE PROCESSING

Exclusive to Pioneer, PURE Drive 2

on the plasma display. The sophisticated combination of picture improvement technologies works

together to enhance four image quality characteristics: vivid and real; clear and noise-free; smooth

and natural; and sharp and rich in contrast.

(PDP-506XDE, PDP-436XDE, PDP-506FDE, PDP-436FDE, PDP-615EX)

(PDP-506XDE, PDP-436XDE, PDP-506FDE, PDP-436FDE)

Pioneer Plasma with

i-CLEAR Drive:

Gradation is smoother

(PDP-506XDE, PDP-436XDE, PDP-506FDE, PDP-436FDE)