Panasonic TC26LX70 26-inch LCD HDTV

Panasonic’s TC26LX70 26-inch LCD HDTV delivers exceptional performance in high style. With its built-in NTSC/ATSC tuner, users can now watch both analog and digital programming at the widescreen display panel’s (16:9) 1366 x 768 pixel (720p) native resolution. This is perfect for HDTV content.

In addition, the sound is as good as its pictures. There’s a built-in 10-watt x 2 full-range stereo audio system with virtual surround sound, plus an optical digital audio output that’s ready to plug into your multichannel home theater system.

Two HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) inputs allow for transfer of both digital multichannel audio and high-definition video content over a single cable. But maybe most amazing of all is that these fantastic features come in a package that’s less than five inches thick.

Every time you turn on the TC26LX70, Panasonic’s advanced Intelligent Scene Controller goes to work to assure you a brilliant picture. Two technologies - backlight control and gamma correction - adjust backlight brightness and contrast so that each scene has fantastic contrast and detail. Flowers look vivid and natural, and landscapes are remarkably bright and true to life. In scenes with dark images, the TC26LX70 reproduces crisp, deep black tones without over-emphasizing the bright tones.

The result is outstanding detail, depth, and realism in areas like the backgrounds behind movie subtitles, and the brightest objects in dark scenes. And the Motion-Adaptive 3D-Y/C Digital Comb Filter is another technology that assures picture-perfect images. It displays bright colors and fast-moving scenes with incredible clarity by minimizing the color rainbow effect in closely spaced patterns, compensating for the motion that occurs between fields.

Now you can enjoy the superb pictures and sounds of high quality home theater equipment without all the messy, unsightly cables. HDMI is a new standard digital connection between A/V devices, offering exceptional video and audio quality with a single, quick-disconnect cable. It supports multichannel digital audio and component video color spacing for true rendering of high definition video, as well as control signals between components.

HDMI supports the HDCP (High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection) standard, allowing transmission of copy-protected digital content to your display. By using Panasonic EZ Sync HDAVI-Control compatible digital home theater components, you can turn on the power for your entire home theater with the touch of a single remote control button, and begin playback immediately. Operating your Panasonic DVD recorder is easy, too. You can use the same remote control you use with your home theater.

Digital Cinema Reality technology helps alleviate the difference in frame rates between film and television. Film is shot at 24 frames per second, and almost every movie disc you buy is encoded at that speed. But television programming runs at 30 frames per second. You can’t divide 24 by 30 evenly, so video engineers fill in the gaps. Known as 3:2 pulldown, this conversion process spreads the 24 frames into 30 by placing one frame on the screen three times and the next one after that two times, repeating this pattern for film-like smoothness on video.

In these days of overlapping and interactive technology, it probably wouldn’t surprise anyone to find a toaster that could download and imprint the top news stories on your bread, or a hair dryer that can also control the volume on your television. The TC26LX70 is all about convenient connections too, which is why it offers not only HDMI and component video inputs; but also S-Video and composite video inputs, as well as analog and optical digital audio outputs.

Panasonic’s LCD panel for the TC26LX70 increases brightness, allowing the use of a thicker, higher purity color filter. This dramatically increases the color reproduction range, resulting in strikingly vivid colors with greater depth. The color temperature has also been raised by optimizing the characteristics of the fluorescent lamp, producing purer whites. With this high uniform brightness LCD panel, Panasonic achieves a picture brightness of 500 cd/m2.

A new panel fabrication technique reduces light leakage during black display, improving dynamic contrast ratios up to 7000:1. Sub Pixel Control takes advantage of the vertical LCD screen geometry where a pixel is made up of three subpixels - individual red, green, and blue stripes - controlling the subpixels rather than whole pixels.

The TC26LX70 LCD panel achieve an impressive pixel response time of 8 milliseconds, assuring excellent detail and smooth motion during rapid image transitions. Finally, the measurable 178-degree viewing angle is provided by In Plane Switching (IPS). The LCD molecules are aligned parallel to the screen, letting viewers enjoy an extraordinary picture from the left, right, above, or below. Colors are clear and vivid even when the screen is viewed from a sharp angle. With Panasonic, it’s easy for everyone in the room to enjoy the show.

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