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Enjoy huge, high-definition video in your own home theater with the 57-inch Hitachi 57F59 projection CRT HDTV, which delivers advanced optics to produce a superior picture in a thin and sleek modern cabinet. Nicely slim at just 23.3 inches deep, it features a sleek modern cabinet that will fit nicely into your room’s decor. You’ll enjoy 480p, 720p and 1080i high-definition viewing right out of the box thanks to the built-in digital ATSC tuner, which pulls HD signals right from the airwaves. You can also connect the set to an optional receiver or cable/satellite set-top box using either the HDMI or component connections. An analog NTSC tuner receives standard-definition (SD) programming.

Projection televisions produce images by using dedicated red, green and blue CRTs (cathode ray tubes), and it’s critical that these three separate images are aligned, or converged, properly at the screen. Hitachi’s Magic Focus Automatic Convergence digital system uses light patterns and sensors to automatically align the three images at an industry leading 8,192 points at the screen, and it can be activated with a simple press of a button on the front of the set.

This set features a video processor that converts all signals to match the set s 1080i display resolution, recreating the smooth curves and high fidelity image of the original source while reducing noise to a minimum. A High-Brightness Lens System magnifies the image for precise focus and detail in widescreen home-theater proportions. The exceptional brightness and focus is the result of a high-precision phosphor formulation and patented liquid coupling design.

The 3D Y/C digital comb filter constantly analyzes the three dimensions of picture height, picture width, and picture changes-over-time to dramatically reduce edge image artifacts while improving transition detail. The velocity scan modulation function improves black to white image transitions for sharper detail and enhanced picture definition in high brightness operating conditions.

Other video features include three HD aspect modes, six SD aspect modes, split screen/picture-in-picture capability, black and edge enhancement, and three color temperature settings. Convenience features include a sleep timer, closed caption decoding, tri-lingual on-screen display (English, French, Spanish), and V-Chip parental controls.

This set has a powerful 24-watt, two-way speaker system (12 watts per channel) that can produce simulated surround sound via the two speakers. It also includes an optical digital audio output for connecting to a home theater system for true 5.1-channel (or higher) surround sound. It includes the following video and audio connections:

• Composite AV (RCA): 5 in (1 front)
• S-Video: 3 in (1 front)
• Component Video: 2 in
• HDMI: 1 in
• RF: 1 in
• Digital audio output: 1 optical

Tech Talk
HDMI is a lossless, uncompressed, all-digital audio/video interface to link any audio/video source (such as a set-top box, DVD player, or AV receiver) with your TV–all over a single cable. It provides up to a 5 GB per second bandwidth for transmitting pure digital video and audio signals with no degradation in the transfer. It can carry up to eight discrete audio channels, making it compatible with 7.1-channel surround sound systems. Signals are encrypted with HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) to prevent recording. HDMI is fully backward-compatible with most DVI connections .

Component video (also called Y/Pb/Pr) features a three-jack video input, which provides separate connections for luminance (Y), blue color difference (PB) and red color difference (PR). This results in increased bandwidth for color information, resulting in a more accurate picture with clearer color reproduction and less bleeding than you would get with S-Video or composite (RCA yellow video plug) connections. You will need a separate RCA left/right audio cable for sound.

What’s in the Box
CRT projection HDTV, remote control (with batteries), printed operating instructions
Customer Review: HDMI is problematic
The Hitachi 57″ set has a great picture and all the bells and whistles. But the HDMI input has shown some glitches. Using HDMI to connect my Motorola cable box to the set works fine most of the time. But sometimes the picture will suddenly change color saturation, or it will go all green or all blue. Once in a while it will go all bright white and then the set will turn itself off! I don’t see these problems with the component video inputs. I know that HDMI still has some interoperability issues, so I can’t say for sure if the problems are in the set or the cable box or both. Buy Now

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This beautifully designed SP55D stand features glass shelves to enhance the high end design of your 55DMX01W/D DLP Projection TV! Though designed forthe Hitachi 55DMX01W/D DLP Projection TV it should also accommodate other TVs up to 55 inches. Its sleek profile is sure to add a sense of style to any room in your house! Buy Now

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Customer Review: Pricey but good
After a year of shopping, my wife & I decided to experience this puppy. Granted that all plasma t.v.s look great, this one on the show floor looked a tad better, so we sprang for the extra bucks after first getting a sale price, then a 10% discount ontop of an additional 10% discount. It was merely a horribly expensive unit instead of obscenely expensive that way.

At home, we had an installer scheduled to come out and mount it on the wall, but we couldn’t wait and went ahead and did the installation on the pedastle, which is a two person job and takes about 3 hours, with the constant fear of dropping something on the screen. We didn’t break anything, but I don’t recommend self installation unless you have nerves of steel.

After haggling with the cable company, we added HDTV service and after about 5 days managed to review the unit in the following modes:

1. analog cable t.v.
The image quality is good, probably superior to regular NTSC quality. Key advantage is you can toggle the 5 or so image scale modes to make it fit just right. There is a progressive distortion mode that while stretching the image to fit the 16:9 from the NTSC standard, does it so well that there is no obvious distortion except for the rare case where you see what should be a circle in one of the corners. The image size is such that you really can’t take in the whole screen at once so it’s a rarely if ever noticed distortion and visually quite good considering the low quality of analog broadcast
2. digital cable t.v.
Probably not a great idea. You have two modes on the Hitachi and 3 modes on the cable box to scale the image, and they seem to fight eachother resulting in a less than stellar picture. I actually prefer analog for quality when all settings are done. I would suspect the same issues with Satellite, but I’m not ready to add that to my gadget list to be sure.
Special note for folks who have “movie on demand” fantasies. NONE of the “movies on demand” are HDTV format. Maybe next year. I’m disappointed, but with my cable company, not Hitachi.
3. digital 1080i cable t.v.
Granted, this device is not a 1080i display, it’s 1,280 by 780, but however it down-converts the signal, it’s an amazingly clear picture. The only concern you might have is looking at the imperfections on people’s faces that are normally invisible. I mean, how many of you will find your attention distracted by looking at the details of the hairs growing from a mole on the interviewer’s face. Sometimes, detail it too much of a good thing, but by all that’s holy, it’s remarkable detail and quality. My suspicion is that satellite folks will love this mode too. HOWEVER, there are very few HDTV channels right now, and I’d say, like all t.v. wasteland material, maybe 1 or 2 has something interesting.
4. svideo DVD
A high quality display that looks fine, but you’ll discover that frame sizes vary depending upon DVD producer’s whim and you may find yourself toggling among 6 different display modes trying to find one that won’t burn-in and that looks good too. I don’t have the HDTV composite version of a DVD player so I can’t comment on that and I blew my toy budget for the next 3 years so it’ll be a while before I know how wonderful that feature is.
5. RCA jack vhs video
This is the worst image quality mode, due to the source. however the analog variable image scaling works well, and the picture is better than when displayed on the baby 30 inch sony 3:4 that this replaced.
6. RGB output from a PC
Jury is out here. I’ve hooked 3 different PCs into this and know for sure that your milage will vary. Depending on which version of Windows you have, whose display driver you have, etc, etc, you will either get a stunning image of your desktop, or a stunning distorted image of your desktop. Be warned a 1280 X 780 display is obviously not the top display mode debugged by video card driver makers. It’s not that you won’t get it to work, but you may find that your actual display size is, well, funny. Hitachi has a nice “auto size” mode that at least gets the desktop to fill the screen, irrespective of what the video card driver wants to do. You can browse easily, clearly, and start shopping at once for a wireless keyboard and mouse. We did.
7. Universal remote vs. Universal remote
There were actually three settups done for us. The one my wife & I did, the one the official installer did, and the one the cable boy did. Each of us knows how a system should be wired, and how the universal remote should be programmed. At the end of the day, I had THREE universal remotes, sony, cable company, and hitachi. Each programmed by the mad mind of the perfect configurator. At the end of the day, the universal remote that works best is the Hitachi, which surprised me. The cable guy insisted that it would never work with the cable box. I discovered that it works better with the cable box than the universal remote that came with the cable box. That doesn’t mean you will have ONE universal remote. Mixed vendors = mixed results. I can now get by with TWO universal remotes, provided I keep a third nearby. Driving 5 different vendor’s devices with 2.5 remotes ain’t bad.
8. Burn in
Hitachi says, never keep the side bars (normal HTDV display) on for more than 15% of the time, lest thou shalt melt the phosphor and destroy your display. I looked at the persistance image after turning the device off (in the dark), and my guess is that 15% is the maximum. I plan on keeping it down to as close to zero as possible. If you plan on using this with a PC, make sure your screen saver is really on, and really doing a dynamic or BLACK display unless you want to see START on the bottom of your display for eternity. (apologies to MAC users) Buy Now

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Customer Review: very unhappy
I have this tv and the picture quality is great. One exception.
in two and a half years I had to change the crt’s twice. I had “screen burn”. Hitachi does not back them up at all. I never played vidio games or put up pictures from a camera. I was told the instant you turn the set onyou start the procces no matter how long you leave the set on. Just normal watching constitue misue and Hitachi would not cover the repair. Why would I spend this kind of money to watch tv and it be concidered misuse. Thats what I bought the tv for watching.
Customer Review: seeing is believing
this tv has the best picture of any projection tv i have ever seen, and give many a tube tv a run for the show as well. i have seen alot of them, as i deliver for a tv and appliance store. the price i paid for this item is unbelievable as well. so needless to say i am a very happy hatachi watcher. dvd quality is out of this world, i have pioneer 600 watt surround sound w/5 disc changer hooked up through red blue green on both units. just switched from cable (clear picture aint so clear) to direct tv the picture from direct is much much better. when not using the pioneer, the sound still sounds good from the hitachi. even though i got a tremendous deal it is well worth the regular price. Buy Now

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