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42" PLASMA DISPLAY

CHAPTER 1

About Your PDP
Congratulations on your purchase of the 42" Plasma Display Panel (PDP). Your new PDP incorporates
the latest plasma technology, along with a variety of options for connecting an input source and an
easy-to-use on screen display (OSD) to help you in fine-tuning your viewing experience. The PDP with
an attached optional tuner module supports the latest digital TV standards, including high-definition
digital TV (HDTV), while, multilayer on-screen menus give you control and access to the various PDP
features. The PDP is also designed to be versatile to meet your viewing needs and fit neatly into any
room. It can be mounted on a wall or a stand.
Key features:
• World-wide multistandard video support for NTSC, PAL, or SECAM systems
• High-performance panel with 10-bit output format
• Inverse 3:2 NTSC/2:2 PAL pulldown for a smoother, superior picture
• Picture In Picture (PIP) support
• Easy PIP swap and PIP placement, with built in de-interlace
• Multilayer on-screen display menus
• Progressive and interlaced component video inputs: 480i, 480p, 720p, and 1080i
• Auto detection of input format with programmable input window
• Auto clock-phase adjustment
• Auto input timing mode detection
• V-Chip function for parental control of content
• Closed Caption function

Picture Effects

Plasma displays provide you with an excellent viewing experience, providing images of high quality and
high resolution. The picture remains bright and vibrant under all types of lighting conditions; the image
is smooth and even because there are no visible scan lines.
The PDP not only supports the latest digital technologies, it also offers the means to view the type of
high-quality images that only HDTV and DVD can provide. The color is rich and realistic, with a
spectrum of literally millions of color variations, far beyond what a conventional TV or even an LCD can
offer. Your 42-inch plasma display takes the plasma technology a step further with pixel enhancement
and color space converters. The digital comb filter eliminates blurred edges, so that the picture remains in
sharp focus at all times.
Wide viewing angles let you watch comfortably from anywhere in the room, and the wide 16:9 aspect
ratio takes full advantage of the large screen, especially for viewing HDTV, which also uses the same
aspect ratio. And because many TV programs continue to broadcast in the narrower 4:3 aspect ratio, the
PDP also includes aspect ratio conversion to automatically convert to a 16:9 aspect ratio.
Picture features:
• 3D Motion de-interlace, 3D comb filter (NTSC), 3D noise reduction
• Processing and reduction of 3D jagged edges
• Auto Film Mode detection with inverse 3:2 NTSC/2:2 PAL pull down
• Color Transient Improvement (CTI)/Luma Transient Improvement (LTI)
• Proprietary pixel enhancement technology
• 4:3 image display on 16:9 output and aspect ratio conversion
• Frame rate up/down conversion
• Built-in programmable color space converters to enhance color performance