With the demise of Pioneer's Kuro range, Panasonic's leviathan TX-P65V10 is aiming to be the last word in affordable 60in+ home entertainment.
Although it faces some stiff competition in this sector of the flat screen market, the TX-P65V10 has the advantage of some of Panasonic's latest technological wizardry.
Panasonic have categorized their high end V10 plasma flat screens for 2009 as 'NeoPDP TVs'. The technology seeks to improve the efficiency of three different components of screen performance - gas discharge and cell design, electronic circuit technologies and materials and processes.
The 'electronic circuit technologies element of NeoPDP introduces 600Hz Sub-field Drive system, which increases the rate at which plasma pixels refresh. Designed to improve motion tracking, it is worth noting that the figure is not directly comparable to an LCD refresh rate. A video signal is actually a series of still images or frames, which appear so quickly that they trick the eye into believing we are watching a moving image (100Hz = 100 frames per second). Panasonic's 600Hz sub-field technology adds an extra step to the process, to display (or 'flash') the individual image elements (dots) on a plasma panel 600 times per second (600Hz). Panasonic are then using mathematical algorithms to 'interpolate' this extra data. The number of frames displayed per second in the case of Sub-Field technology has not actually increased to 600.
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