Samsung Series 7 PN50A760 Specifications

Display: 50″ Wide Plasma Display Panel (PDP)
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Pixel Format: 1920 x 1080
Contrast Ratio: 1,000,000:1 (Dynamic)
Brightness: 1300 cd/m2
Video Processing: DNIe Pro (18-bit Natural True Color)
Tuner: NTSC / ATSC / Clear QAM
Other: Ultra Filter Bright, InfoLink
Connectivity: USB 2.0 (WiseLink Pro: MP3, JPEG, XviD, MPEG4), DLNA, HDMI 1.3 with CEC (4), Component (2), Composite (2), S-Video, VGA, RS-323C, Ethernet (for InfoLink, DLNA only)
Availability: August 2008
Price: US$2799.99

1,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio. That should be enough to tell you that Samsung‘s PN50A760 50″ plasma TV (and its two larger sib­lings the PN58A760 and PN63A760 that make up Series 7) are seri­ous about per­for­mance. There are few oth­ers in all of TV-dom to fea­ture a con­trast ratio that high. The PN50A760 is also quite bright at 1300 cd/m2. With this kind of bright­ness, you’re most likely able to enjoy the 50″ plasma even dur­ing the day. Speaking of which, the PN50A760 can be cal­i­brated for day and night view­ing. Professionally that is. Also aid­ing the 50″ plasma dur­ing the day is the company’s Ultra Filter Bright anti-glare tech­nol­ogy that brings down reflec­tions in bright ambi­ent envi­ron­ments to make it a bit more enjoy­able to watch. There are a ton of other fea­tures, after the jump.

The DNIe Pro is an advanced ver­sion of Samsung’s DNIe video pro­cess­ing tech­nol­ogy that makes use of its 18-bit Natural True Color. 8-bit gen­er­ates 16 mil­lion col­ors so 18-bit would gen­er­ate some­where in the many bil­lions, more than enough for accu­rate col­ors. Plug in a USB stick with pic­tures, music and video and the WiseLink tech­nol­ogy auto­mat­i­cally allows you to view them. Smart. Of course, like all new Samsung TVs, the PN50A760 sports the Touch of Color design. With a fea­ture called InfoLink you can get RSS feeds which is pow­ered by USA Today that gives you news, weather and stock information.

Full press release announced July 23, 9:00AM EDT:

Samsung’s Series 7 Plasma HDTVs Expand the Horizons of Luxurious Home Theater Design and Multimedia Capability

Enhanced Connectivity and Superior Picture Performance Deliver a Premium Experience

RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Samsung Electronics, the mar­ket leader in HDTV design and inno­va­tion, con­tin­ues to deliver the ulti­mate form of “func­tional art” to con­sumers with the Series 7 Plasma HDTV fea­tur­ing Samsung’s ToC™ (Touch of Color™) designed bezel. Born from the crafts­man­ship behind del­i­cately blown glass to the bal­anced beauty of a sun­set, the ToC design fea­tures a hint of red color blended into a piano black bezel. In addi­tion to boast­ing a cutting-edge design, the Series 7 Plasma HDTVs deliver a supe­rior Full HD1080p pic­ture with up to a 1,000,000:1 dynamic con­trast ratio for crisp detail and vibrant col­ors, all sup­ported by Samsung’s Ultra FilterBright™ tech­nol­ogy. For the home the­ater con­nois­seur, the Series 7 offers the option to cal­i­brate the TV for both day-time and night-time view­ing to ensure opti­mal pic­ture qual­ity in any setting.

“With the Series 7 plasma HDTV, Samsung looks to ele­vate con­sumers’ home the­aters with a pre­mier design and an encom­pass­ing view­ing expe­ri­ence,” said Steve Panosian direc­tor of Visual Display Marketing at Samsung Electronics America. “By com­bin­ing supe­rior con­nec­tiv­ity and net­work­ing options with the lat­est audio-visual tech­nolo­gies, the Series 7 Plasma is cer­tain to fur­ther refine most any home the­ater setup.”

Touch of Color™

Reflecting Samsung’s mantra for design cre­ativ­ity, the Series 7 leaves the tra­di­tional look of HDTV design and employs the aes­thet­i­cally pleas­ing ToC bezel. Samsung is the first man­u­fac­turer in the HDTV indus­try to use dual-injection mold­ing tech­nol­ogy which infuses color to the bezel rather than using spray paint. By con­trol­ling the den­sity of the color injec­tion, the result­ing bezel shows a nat­ural gra­da­tion from red to black color for a dis­tinct yet ele­gant appearance.

Superior Picture Performance

The Full HD 1080p Series 7 fea­tures a dynamic con­trast ratio of up to 1,000,000:1 for deeper blacks and purer whites onscreen. Samsung’s Ultra Filter Bright anti-glare tech­nol­ogy keeps the pic­ture clear and bright even in well-lit envi­ron­ments, while the next-generation DNIe™ Pro video pro­cess­ing and 18-bit Natural True Color ensure the sub­tle details are not sacrificed.

Day / Night Calibration Modes

For con­sumers look­ing for the ulti­mate home the­ater expe­ri­ence, the Samsung Series 7 Plasma HDTV fea­tures a pro­fes­sional day-time and night-time cal­i­bra­tion mode for opti­mized view­ing. The two spe­cial cus­tomiza­tion and enhance­ment modes can only be accessed once a pro­fes­sional cal­i­bra­tor makes the nec­es­sary adjust­ments and saves the pic­ture set­tings made to match the ambi­ent light­ing in the room. Then the con­sumer can instantly select the saved pic­ture set­tings, and expe­ri­ence the best pos­si­ble HDTV view­ing at any time of the day.

InfoLink™

The Series 7 Plasma HDTV fea­tures the one-button, on-demand InfoLink™ RSS ser­vice. Powered by con­tent from USA Today, InfoLink instantly dis­plays news, weather and stock infor­ma­tion onscreen via adjustable over­lays. As the ulti­mate form of lux­ury and con­ve­nience for the always-connected con­sumer, InfoLink allows users to view stock quotes from their per­sonal port­fo­lio and local weather infor­ma­tion. There is no need to change the chan­nel to get a five-day fore­cast of the weather or instant access to stock quotes and news once con­nected to a home net­work with Internet access.

Superior Connectivity

The Series 7 Plasma offers a host of con­nec­tion options to enjoy a grow­ing library of dig­i­tal con­tent. Simply plug a mem­ory drive or dig­i­tal cam­era in the side-mounted USB 2.0 port and WiseLink™ Pro turns the tele­vi­sion into a juke­box or photo album. The TV rec­og­nizes not only MP3 and JPEG files but also XviD and MPEG4 files to enjoy video play­back. In addi­tion, it comes with a Digital Content Management fea­ture that allows the user to sort images based on usual para­me­ters like time and even more uncom­mon ones like color and com­po­si­tion. Additionally, the Series 7 Plasmas are com­pat­i­ble with DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) for easy con­nec­tion to and con­tent shar­ing with other DLNA-CERTIFIED™ prod­ucts, such as a computer.

Recognizing that more con­sumers use their HDTV as the cor­ner­stone of their home enter­tain­ment cen­ters, Samsung also added enhanced con­nec­tiv­ity to the Series 7 Plasma. Consumers can con­nect to, access, and man­age more of the lat­est HD devices than ever before with a total of four HDMI 1.3 inputs (three at the rear, one on the side). Beyond their abil­ity to han­dle the lat­est color and HD audio pro­cess­ing, all four con­nec­tions include CEC net­work­ing, allow­ing con­trol of mul­ti­ple com­po­nents using only the TV’s remote control.

The Samsung Series 7 Plasma HDTVs will be avail­able in August in 50-inch, 58-inch and 63-inch screen sizes (model num­bers: PN50A760, PN58A760 and PN63A760).

Wireless LinkStick Accessory

For added con­ve­nience, the Samsung Wireless LinkStick allows con­sumers to access the InfoLink fea­ture on their Series 7 Plasma HDTV wire­lessly. While a con­nec­tion to the Internet via an appro­pri­ate modem and wire­less router is still required, con­sumers will no longer need to run an Ethernet cable directly to their HDTV. The Wireless LinkStick (WIS-08BGX/XAA) is avail­able now with an esti­mated sell­ing price of $34.99.

Source: BusinessWire via Engadget

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