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Planar PD470: here's Planar's stonking debut LCD

With the words ‘possibly the single most subtle and satisfying LCD TV picture performance that money can buy’, John Archer concludes an overwhelmingly positive first review of the Planar PD470 in What Video & HDTV magazine. Awarding a Best Buy badge, he proclaims the ‘sensational purity’ of its pictures: HD images ‘look utterly pristine, with no grain, no noise and no processing glitches.’ Even more remarkable is how the 470’s Cortez processing engine ‘rebuilds’ standard def images ‘to fit the screen’s full HD panel better than, quite possibly, any other processing engine we’ve seen to date.’ Motion handling is ‘spectacularly good’, colours ‘spectacularly vivid’, producing ‘arguably the most believable skin tones on LCD’, and the black level ‘puts the cinema into home cinema’. Test results show that a post-calibration CIE chart is as close to perfect as you could hope and RGB levels read an ideal 100/100/100%.

John Archer, What Video & HDTV issue 328 : 2-DEC-2007

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