Image quality is simply fantastic on the Pioneer Elite 60” PureVision Plasma. I have tested many TVs and have several HDTV sets in my home and nothing compares to the color reproduction and accuracy the Pioneer Elite 60” PureVision Plasma provides. The colors displayed on the Pioneer Elite 60” PureVision Plasma are so rich and deep that other TV sets pale in comparison. To get these superb color reproduction characteristics Pioneer used an exclusive first surface PRO color filter that reduces the light reflection on the screen and enhances contrast and color reproduction. If you buy the Pioneer Elite 60” PureVision Plasma from an Elite dealer you can also have the set custom calibrated by trained technicians for day and night time watching.
Pioneer also uses improved red and blue phosphors that give the Pioneer Elite 60” PureVision Plasma brighter and purer colors able to reproduce a wider color space. Turn on a HD program that has brightly colored outdoor spaces and you will feel like you are actually there. Pioneer also added some tech to deepen black levels with a crystal emissive layer, which also increases brightness of images on screen. This technology works so well that even my wife noticed right away that this was by far the brightest picture we have seen on TVs that come through our home.
Gray scale rendering is often on of the problem areas in plasma and LCD TV sets. This problem usually rears its head in the form of blocky pixilated areas on screen when the image is dark and has many gray tones. This is most evident on movie scenes where the actor is surrounded by dark with only a small light area. Think Lost when they are walking through the dark jungle with only one torch to light the scene. The sections of screen where the torch light wane tend to get blocky and lose resolution on many sets. This was a bit of an issue on the Pioneer Elite 60” PureVision Plasma, but ever so much better than the vast majority of sets I have reviewed.
Pioneer’s Advanced Pure Cinema uses a 3:3 pull down so film-based materials on DVD, video tape and standard TV look more smooth and natural like they do in the theater. Movie watching on the Pioneer Elite 60” PureVision Plasma with a quality upscaling DVD player like the Denon S-301 I use for testing is awesome. I watched the movie “The Guardian” on this set and upscaled to 1080i with the bass booming the crashing waves while watching on the Pioneer Elite 60” PureVision Plasma was the best movie watching experience I have had in my home to date. The native display resolution for the Pioneer Elite 60” PureVision Plasma is 1365 x 768 with a 16:9 screen aspect ratio. The set is capable of displaying every TV resolution available from 480i up to full 1080p.
Removable Speakers
Pioneer also includes a set of removable speakers with the Pioneer Elite 60” PureVision Plasma as well. These speakers look very nice and add about twelve inches of width to the TV overall. Sound quality is decent with these speakers thanks to the SRS/WOW/FOCUS surround sound capability the set has. I used the speakers to get an idea of how well they performed and they do a good job. That said I don’t see most users of a HDTV of this caliber using these speakers, the Pioneer Elite 60” PureVision Plasma is destined to be connected to a strong home theater setup and the detachable speakers are most likely going to sit in a closet somewhere. They do a decent job of reproducing sounds, though they were a bit bass lean for my tastes.
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