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Pioneer PDP 6020FD 60 Inch Class KURO Plasma HDTV

Enter the next generation of Pioneer KURO, where a picture is worth more than a thousand words. Awake your senses and discover there is more to this television than meets the eye. Deeper black levels that pave the way to breathtaking detail, added dimension and more vibrant color are just the beginning. Optimum Mode automatically analyzes and adjusts audio and video settings according to specific room light conditions and type of light and color. Program content is also monitored and finely adjusted so movies, sports and news are all faithfully reproduced. Smooth Film mode eliminates motion jitter in 3:2 Pulldown (60Hz) providing natural even playback of film content. Detachable bottom speaker with fully integrated digital amplifier for pristine clarity and accuracy of sound 4 Independent HDMI 1.3 inputs with HDMI-CEC control and the ability to accept 1080p 24/60Hz signal Room Light Sensor for automatic picture adjustment Standard 3 – 2 (60Hz) and Advanced PureCinema with 3 – 3 Pulldown (72Hz) for accurate playback of film content Fully Integrated ATSC and NTSC Tuner with Clear QAMSupported Formats – Video – WMV9, MPEG1, MPEG2-PS, MPEG2-TS, MPEG4 (SP/ASP), and MPEG4 (H.264/AVC) Audio – WMA9, MP3, Linear PCM (WAV), HE-AAC, and MPEG-4 AAC Photos – JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and BMP 4 Independent HDMI 1.3 (1 side, 3 rear) with PC support, 2 with analog audio, 1 Component, 3x Composite, 1 S-Video Antenna, USB (Mass Storage Class), LAN (10/100 Base-T –Ethernet), and PC input Optical Digital Audio (Dolby Digital/PCM), Audio LR, Subwoofer, SR, and Headphone output Dimensions – Width 57-11/16 x Height 34-1/2 x Depth 3-21/32 / 57-11/16 x 37-5/8 x 3-21/32 with speaker Weight – 112 pounds / 131 pounds 8 ounces with speaker and stand

User Ratings and Reviews

3 Stars Excellent TV… too Expense
Nice TV, a little heavy. You can buy an top on the line Samsung 55 super thin ledtv, very light everything you want in a TV and more. Also, 1/2 the price for this Pioneer. Which it’s cool and 5 in bigger. It’s ok, if you have $4300 to spend.

5 Stars Great HDTV’s But shipping is a rip off
I just bought 2 of these babies and love them ! Mine were shipped by J & R Music via a carrier called Absolute Freight Carriers (or something like that) I paid for expedited threshold delivery. Beware ! Items shipped by dealers (even though they are listed with Amazon.com) are not covered with Amazon shipping rates (ex “free shipping”) The day my order was placed an email followed stating further notification would follow when shipment was in route. It did and the dispatcher called me to arrange delivery appointment on thursday between 12 noon and 4 pm, he also wanted to be sure that i understood that this was a threshold delivery (placed inside the door only) and 2 men would make the delivery. I took off work anticipating the delivery only to be called at 10 minutes till 4 to be told that the driver was tied up south of me and would be very arriving very late or could we possibly postphone delivery until the next morning. I agreed so I was told to expect truck around 7:30 to 8:00 a.m. The van arrived here at 9:00 with only the driver. He was very polite and set out to wrestle these beauties into my house. Now mind you, the shipping wt. on each was over 150 lbs. He was atleast 60 yrs old and I have a herniated disc in my back. Thank gosh my 25 yr old son was here to help lift these packages out of the van onto the dolly. Oh, the driver assured me he could handle this but I kringed when I saw that he was going to slide these babies back and drop them about 30″ off the truck onto the dolly! I stopped him and made him wait until my son could get outside to assist him. Maybe nothing would have happened to the plasma tvs, but when I’ve paid over $8,500.00 plus for 2 of these units (freight included) I darn sure was not pleased to see that they were going to be handled like that. I told the driver that his dispatcher informed me that 2 men would be making the delivery. His reply was “ha, they send me out like this everyday without any help.” I feel ripped off for having to pay over $800.00 for this kind of freight service.

“A day late and a man short.”

5 Stars Super Image, beat expectations. Great customer care from Amazon.
What can I say that hasn’t been said? This TV beat my picky expectations by far! If your one to notice over hyped colors, bad shadow detail, poor blacks, washed out colors, hyped motion “anti-blurring” sets, you’ll love this TV.

This is my first HD TV but I have been looking to buy for 6 years. My wife bought me a Blu-ray player ( Oppo BDP-83 recommend ) so I made the leap…so glad I did.

I am very picky about picture quality. I shoot large format photographs, I tend to notice digital artifacts, bad skin tone, bad contrast, pixilation etc. This TV has no artificial look to it. It seems to spit out what it gets with out adding anything. Off air 1080i broadcasts are stunning. Blu-Ray is outstanding. It may not be the best TV for converting from SD, but even converting from the lowest of resolution it still show no artificial digital artifacts. Meaning, no hyped colors, no rainbow effects, off color shadows etc.

The color depth is also stunning. May be a bit strong on reds and greens but seems to be pleasing to the eye. As advertised the black levels and detail are where it’s all at. Making colors rich, deep, accurate and shadow detail solid. Blacks are inky black. For Plasma is does have a decent anti reflective coating. Reminds me of anti reflective coating on video lenses. Day time viewing is not a problem at all. TV speaker is better than the average TV speaker. I use 5.1 surround system for Blu-ray and HD TV but, for average TV viewing it’s decent.

LCD and LED sets are using fast motion reproduction ie…120hz, 240hz to help stop motion blur. To me this makes 24fps film look like video. 24fps is supposed to show motion blur at certain speeds, and trying to make everything look sharp makes the picture look unnatural. This set show no signs of this artificial “fix”. Blu-ray, broadcast 1080i shows (sports) look amazing. Smooth, fluid…the way they were meant to be seen. My first viewing of NFL HD was like anything I had ever seen.

I’m glad I waited for a TV like this. It’s one of those things you know you’ll want to keep for as long as possible because it performs so well.

Amazon was great at communicating shipping info. Personal e-mail to connect with me about who was shipping, contact info etc. TV was set up and turned on to make sure all was %100. I was a bit hesitant about ordering such a large item on line, but Amazon was on top of everything.

There is a similar Kuro by Pioneer that sells for $1,000 more. It has controls over every aspect of the video output. If your a Pro, super amateur enthusiast etc. with knowledge way beyond highlight, shadow, sharpness, color depth control… than you may like the “higher” model. Otherwise this set is pretty perfect right out of the box with out the bigger price tag.

(Don’t forget if you live near TV stations…50 miles or less, you can get free HD 1080i broadcasts.)((separate antenna required))

5 Stars Best display under $10,000
If picture quality is important to you, and you don’t want to spend significantly more, this is your display. It doesn’t get better than this at this price point. It’s got 4 HDMI inputs, you can hook a computer up to it, as well as the usual array of monitor options. Contrary to popular opinion, this TV can be calibrated through it’s service menu, using software from ControlCal, so it’s not worth the premium for the Elite. Enough has been written concerning the stellar picture quality, but an underappreciated feature of this display is its sound quality, especially using the SRS options. Obviously, you’ll want to run this through a dedicated surround system, but in a pinch, the supplied speakers are surprisingly good. I would also recommend running a burn in CD (check out AVS forum, settings for KURO 6020) for 150 hours, then doing the ControlCal service menu calibration (you can use the suggested settings from AVs forum). You will then have an uncompromised-in-any-way killer display that is state of the art!

5 Stars The End of an Era
So I’ve had the 6020FD for a few months. First off, the ‘top of the line’ Samsung LCD that maxes out at 55 inches is the UN55B8000. It currently (today) costs $3600. I purchased my Kuro for 3697 all in and is listed at 3700 today on Amazon. So that’s $100 difference. Half the price is a comment made by an idiot. It is half the wieght of the Kuro – certainly not half the price. The differnce in the 5 inches (55 to 60) is 19% larger area for the Kuro screen-wise. For me, I did not want anything smaller than 60 inches.

The picture of the Kuro is near perfect out of the box. Put it on Optimum and you are good to go. Digital looks pretty good and HD looks amazing. All visitors comment on the HD picture. 90% of what I watch is HD or blu-ray so it works for me. Right now I am watching a digital channel (Fox Soccer) and it looks very good – not perfect, but very good.

I have watched various movies from a PS3 on the Kuro – Iron Man was stunning, Star Trek II (daytime) looked perfect, even upconverted dvds look excellent.

Lighted conditions is where I was surprised – this TV works very well in lit conditions, anti-glare screen works very well – I have light bouncing off it now and there is 0 reflection on the screen.

It is very heavy – so I have not wall mounted it yet. That is going to be a project and I likely will have to hire a couple of insured installers to do the job. Keep that in mind.

Also, my wall mount did not fit – so make sure your wall mount fits the specified holes on the 6020.

There are screen splotches when it is off – no big deal – part of the plasma experience I suppose.

Do not touch the screen – you are only supposed to clean with the supplied cloth – does not perform miracles. So, try to keep the screen pristine.

I have used the movie mode settings found on internet, like from here and CNET – they work very well – so does simply putting it in optimum mode.

Optimum is great and is one of the truly awesome aspects of this model.

HD is almost 3 dimensional, almost. It is stunning from 1 inch to 12 feet away at any angle.

I have not used the included sound bar so can’t comment on sound.

Laptops look great on monitor – I have used VGA (Windows-based) and HDMI (macbook pro) – both looked very good – even watched a TV show off of netflix via the VGA – it was fine, not blu-ray, but good enough.

I cannot get split screen to work the way I would want it to.

TV is almost too easy to operate – Once I discovered how to power it on, the picture looked great and continues to.

If picture looks bad, make sure you are on HDMI option and not simply the cable feed (if you have a cable feed going to it for some reason like I do [trying to get split screen to work])

I would not use other modes other than optimum and movie, I do not see any reason to, but hey, that’s me.

P.S. – nobody who has seen the screen thinks it is ‘dim’ – this screen is quite bright. For those who own it and think it is dim – there are control settings you can manipulate to make it brighter – mine, however, is perfect and not dim at all – the whites in fact are very solid and not ’smokey’ in the slightest – something is wrong perhaps with your connection or input if any of your colors, white included, look ’smokey’ on this plasma.

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