Pioneer KRP-500A Kuro with separate Media Receiver

KURO means black in Japanese and black is at the very heart of the KURO concept. Blacker than ever, a KURO flat screen TV creates black tones of such depth and purity that every detail, every colour, every shade becomes brilliantly alive. 

Just 64mm thin and with a separate media receiver connected using a displayport cable, the KRP-500A is clean and contemporary in design; a centrepiece complementing almost any interior.

The KRP-500A delivers flicker-free images in razor-sharp 1080p resolution. View films coming from Blu-ray in the original 24 frames per second – precisely the same rate at which they were originally filmed and mastered. What you see (and hear) is true to the original. Continue reading “Pioneer KRP-500A Kuro with separate Media Receiver”

Displayport Cable becoming more popular

Despite being launched over 2 years ago displayport cables have struggled against the HDMI cable. Displayport has the advantage that there is no licensing required to use the connectors but manufacturers have been slow to adopt it. During recent months the displayport cable seems to have become more popular as manufacturers start to use the connection, big names such as Pioneer and Dell have started to ship products with display port connectivity.