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Pioneer's Revolutionary KURO Flat Panel Display Regarded by Popular Science as "Best of What's New"
Long Beach, CA 11/13/2007
With deep blacks, vivid colors and nearly three-dimensional picture quality, Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. is pleased to announce its Elite® KURO PRO-1150HD flat panel display has been recognized with a prestigious 2007 “Best of What’s New” Grand Award by Popular Science. Delivering an experience of seeing and hearing like never before, the PRO-1150HD is one of this year’s home entertainment product breakthroughs.
“Our 50” Elite KURO is pure technological ingenuity and we are proud to be the recipient of the “Best of What’s New” Grand Award from Popular Science,” said Paul Meyhoefer, vice president of display marketing and product planning for Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. “With KURO we set out to redefine consumer expectations for unparalleled picture performance. This award serves to reinforce Pioneer’s brand leadership and our continuous goal to innovate a unique home entertainment experience for enthusiasts.”
Setting aside the traditional conventions of flat panel manufacturing, engineers took an entirely new approach to the design and build of Pioneer’s new line of KURO televisions. Incorporating innovative technologies along with internal intelligence features, the Elite KURO provides a new found level of picture quality in high end home theater. Redesigned and developed from the ground up, the PRO-1150HD features a new panel, filter, application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and stereo speakers that are all engineered to work in complete harmony. The result is a television with penetrating blacks, intense colors and more detail that seems to transform pictures and add an emotional element that other flat panel displays cannot. Taking the entertainment experience one step further, the new television incorporates Pioneer’s exclusive Home Media Gallery™ home networking function. Users can easily connect the PRO-1150HD to an existing home network and stream movies, music and photos from a networked PC or any other DLNA-compliant device for immediate viewing in stunning HD quality.
“For 20 years, Popular Science’s “Best of What's New” awards honor the innovations that a make positive impact on life today and change our views of the future,” says Mark Jannot, Editor-in-Chief of Popular Science. “PopSci’s editors evaluate thousands of products each year to develop this thoughtful list, there’s no higher accolade Popular Science can give.”
With only 100 award winners selected each year, a proposed product or technology must represent a significant leap one of 10 key categories: Automotive, Aviation & Space, Computing, Engineering, Gadgets, Green Tech, Home Entertainment, Home Tech, Personal Health and Recreation.
Pioneer’s Home Entertainment and Business Solutions Group develops high definition home theater equipment for sports and entertainment junkies. Its award-winning flat panel televisions, Blu-ray Disc players, A/V receivers and speakers heighten the emotions created by great HD content. The company brands include Pioneer® and Elite®. When purchased from an authorized retailer, consumers receive a limited warranty for one year with Pioneer products and two years with Elite products. More details can be located at www.pioneerelectronics.com.
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