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Features
Remote Control
Input and Output Notes
Stand and Wall-Mount Requirements
Features
LaserVue Light Engine: Mitsubishi has created a new category of
television with laser technology, call "LaserVue". Laser beams provide the widest
range of rich, complex colors, along with most clarity and depth of field.
Mitsubishi harnessed lasers for each primary color (red, green, and blue),
eliminating the need for filters and their inherent compromises. The output of
these lasers remains consistent and true for the life of the product. Unlike
displays that use traditional illumination sources, the uniform and focused
nature of laser light means no complex path of optical components is required to
gather and align the light output. Instead, fiber optic cables channel the laser
outputs to the imager, resulting in a compact, simpler light engine that can be
located separately from the laser source. This, combined with the use of
advanced optics, results in an amazingly thin depth of about 12 inches for a
65-inch diagonal screen size.
Twice the Color: Laser light differs from ordinary light in some
remarkable and beneficial ways. Unlike broad-spectrum white light that
illuminates our world, laser light can be generated to reproduce only a very
narrow bandwidth of the visible spectrum; far more narrow than you would get
from using phosphors or by filtering white light to produce the red, green and
blue primaries. The result is much purer, brighter, primary colors from which to
generate all the remaining colors. This, in turn, translates to a wider range of
colors. LaserVue produces color twice that of an LCD and nearly twice that of a
plasma television. This allows LaserVue to fully reproduce bold colors such as
crimson red, deep purple and neon green.
Ultra-Energy Efficient: Thanks to the concentrated intensity of its
laser beams, LaserVue's picture rivals the brightness of a flat panel TV. Yet,
it consumes only about one-third the power of similarly sized LCD televisions,
and as little as one-quarter the energy of like-sized plasmas. Power consumption
for LaserVue has been measured at 135-watts as measured by a weighted UL
standard.
DLP Display System: The Mitsubishi LaserVue DLP HDTV
uses Texas Instruments Digital Light Processing technology to create its picture
on the screen.
Plush 1080p: The LaserVue TV uses Plush 1080p to convert
lower-resolution signals to 1080p for display. The TV can also accept 1080p
original signals and maintain them at 1080p through all processing until
displayed. All images are displayed at 1080p.
Integrated HDTV Tuner: The
widescreen Mitsubishi LaserVue DLP TV has an internal HDTV tuner able to receive both
over-the-air HDTV broadcasts (via an antenna) and non-encrypted digital
cable broadcasts, including non-encrypted HDTV cable programming.
Smooth 120Hz: Smooth 120Hz
is a unique Mitsubishi technology which displays a more fluid, natural, and
smoother fast moving images, free from motion blur. By removing motion blur,
fast motion scenes are smoother and more natural.
6-Color Processor: Mitsubishi's exclusive 6-Color Processor
produces brighter colors, a wider range of colors and whiter whites.
PerfectColor: PerfectColor is
an exclusive Mitsubishi feature that gives you the ability to adjust the
intensity of six separate colors (Magenta, Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue)
independently of each other and separately for every input. PerfectColor is a
full color matrix, much more powerful than a conventional color intensity control
with only red versus green color balance.
x.v.Color System: x.v.Color is the new standard in high
definition color. The television's x.v.Color Wide Color Palette enables up to
80% more color than standard HDTV for increased realism and vivid, natural
colors.
Deep Color Technology: Deep Color creates smooth transitions
between different shades and eliminates color bands and complements the
x.v.Color system's wide color pallet. Enabled by HDMI 1.3, Deep Color goes
beyond previous 8-bit HDTV.
Video Noise Reduction (4D): Mitsubishi's exclusive Video Noise Reduction system uses advanced algorithms
to better identify video noise from fine detail and correct the signal rather
that distort it. The advanced Video Noise Reduction system corrects the image
in four dimensions - horizontally, vertical, within each frame and across
multiple frames to provide and image that is crystal clear and very detailed.
You can set the video Noise Reduction system to 4 settings - High, Medium, Low,
or Off.
SharpEdge: The SharpEdge signal processing
system enhances horizontal and vertical edges for stunning picture precision.
SharpEdge senses the vertical boundary and amplifies it while minimizing
distortion. The end result is crisp and sharp edges.
DeepField Imager: The DeepField Imager feature constantly adjusts
brightness and contrast for optimum settings in all areas of the picture. It can
even optimize complex scenes containing both dark and bright areas. DeepField
Imager analyzes 135 sectors of the picture in real time, while determining the
optimum blend of contrast and brightness settings for the picture using advanced
algorithms. Based on its picture analysis it dynamically adjusts for areas that
are too high or low in contrast and/or too dark or bright and displays the best
balanced picture in every scene.
TV Display Formats: The TV offers the following TV display
formats:
- Standard: The TV's full-screen format, use for HDTV
signals, 4:3 images are stretched evenly to fill the screen, 2.35:1 aspect
DVDs have black bars at the top and bottom, but show the entire image
correctly.
- Wide Expand: Enlarges the picture, cropping some of the
image on both sides, useful to remove or reduce black side bars added to
narrow images that are converted to 16:9 signals for digital broadcast;
available for 1080i, 720p, digital SD 16:9, and digital HD signals only.
- Expand: Enlarges the picture to fill the screen,
cropping off some of the image at the top and bottom, useful for reducing
letter box bars on non-anamorphic DVDs; available for analog and digital SD
4:3 signals only.
- Zoom: Enlarges the picture, cropping some of the image
at the sides, top, and bottom, useful for removing or reducing black top and
bottom bars on 2.35:1 anamorphic DVDs; available for analog and digital SD
4:3 signals only.
- Stretch: Stretches a narrow 4:3 image across the screen
non-uniformly; there is less stretch in the center than at the sides,
allowing the image to fill the screen with less distortion than is seen in
the Standard format; available for analog and digital SD 4:3 signals only.
- Stretch Plus: Similar to the Stretch format, but to
minimize distortions the picture is expanded to crop off portion of the top
and bottom; available for analog and digital SD 4:3 signals only.
- Narrow: Displays narrow 4:3 images in their original
aspect and adds stationary black side bars to fill the screen; available for
analog and digital SD 4:3 signals only.
Picture Mode: Picture Mode
allows you to optimize the image for different lighting conditions. You can
choose from the following Picture Modes:
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Bright: Suited
for most daytime viewing and x.v.Color sources.
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Natural: Suited for most nighttime viewing and x.v.Color
sources.
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Brilliant: For use under
strong light.
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Game: Optimizes picture
and video processing for gaming consoles.
Picture Settings: In addition to the three Picture Modes,
the LaserVue TV offers the following custom picture settings:
- Contrast: Adjusts the white-to-black-level of the
picture.
- Brightness: Adjusts the overall brightness of the
picture.
- Color: Adjusts the overall color intensity.
- Tint: Adjusts the red-to-green ratio.
- Sharpness: Adjusts the picture detail and clarity.
- Color Temperature: adjusts how white is displayed on
the TV.
- Low: white images will have a warm cast, closest to
6500K
- High: white images have a cool cast, may provide
the most realistic picture under bright lighting
Film Mode: In Film Mode, the
TV automatically detects and applies film-decoding correction for images that
originated on 24-frame-per-seconds film cameras and were converted to
30-frame-per-second video for broadcast (3:2 pulldown conversion).
3D Ready: This feature lets you experience the new 3D
technology applied to many recent movies and video games via optional 3D glasses.
Audio Settings: The television features independent Bass,
Treble, and Balance settings.
Sound Mode: The television features the following Sound
Modes.
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Normal: No special audio effect from the TV speakers.
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Expand: Modifies audio from the TV speakers; for
monaural (non-stereo) programs it creates a simulated stereo effect; for
stereo programs its creates a simulated surround sound effect.
Level Sound: Level Sound
automatically equalizes the volume level when there are significant sound-level
differences between program segments, such as between regular programming and
commercials.
ChannelView: ChannelView
shows memorized channels on the antenna input. It displays digital channel names
and program information as sent by broadcasters or your local cable service
providers (may be incomplete). No program information is displayed for analog
channels.
Channel Naming: You can assign a custom name (up to 6 characters long)
to memorized channels.
Favorites: The television features 6 favorite channel banks to store
groups of your favorite channels.
Closed Captioning: The
television features both analog and digital closed captioning.
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Analog Captions: For
analog channels, broadcasters can send either standard closed captions or
text service. Standard closed captions follow the dialogue of the characters
on screen and display in a small section of the screen. Text-service closed
captions often contain information such as weather or news not related to
the current programs and cover a large portion of the screen.
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Digital Captions: For
digital channels, broadcasters can send up to six different caption
selections or can send analog captions that are the same as those sent by
the analog station. Each TV station may broadcast only on or two types of
captions or none at all. The TV cannot decode closed captions received on
component or HDMI inputs. Digital channels allow you to select front type,
size, color, background and opacity of the closed caption characters.
Parental Lock: The
Parental Lock menu give you control over four different types of parental
controls. You must create and use a custom pass code to open this menu to enable
or disable the lock options. The four parental controls available are as follows.
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Ratings: V-Chip
technology lets you restrict access to programming based on program-rating
signals sent by the broadcaster or by movie ratings.
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Channel: Lock specific channels so that a pass-code is required to
view them.
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Lock By Time: Lock By
Time allows you to block all use of the TV during specified hours of the day
or night.
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Front Panel Lock: Front
Panel Lock lets you disable controls on the front panel to prevent
inadvertent changes to TV settings.
USB Photo Port: You can view digital JPEG photo files
(FAT/FAT32) on the TV using the USB Photo port located on side of the
television. You can connect your digital camera, USB thumb-drive or USB card
reader. The TV's Type-A USB port supports still images recorded on digital
cameras using the Exchangeable Image File Format, version 2.1 (EXIF 2.1)
standard for digital still cameras and Design Rules for Camera File Systems
version 1.0 (DCF 1.0). You can view your still images in a single photo,
slideshow or thumbnail fashion. A single photo can be rotated clockwise in
90-degrees increments. The thumbnail mode allows you to view 10 still images at
once. The slideshow mode's interval and frequency can be adjusted to your
preference.
Note: The TV can read JPEG files as created by a
digital camera. If you edit a picture file on a computer and resave the
image, the TV may be unable to read the resaved image file.
PC Compatible: The television
can be used as a computer monitor and connected to your PC via one of the TV's HDMI inputs using an HDMI cable, DVI-to-HDMI cable, or an HDMI cable with
an HDMI-to-DVI adapter. You will also need to connect the DVI/PC Stereo RCA
Audio input of the TV to your computer for sound. You can adjust the horizontal
and vertical position of the computer image. The television supports the
following PC video formats: VGA, W-VGA, SVGA, W-SVGA, XGA, SXGA, WXGA, PC 720p,
and PC 1080p.
TV Timer: The TV Timer
feature allows you to set a day and time for the TV to turn on
automatically and the device and channel to display when it switches on. If the
TV is already on at the requested time, the TV still automatically tunes to the
channel you designated in the Timer menu. You can select a Daily timer,
Mon-Friday timer or individual days of the week.
Sleep Timer: The TV's Sleep
Timer can be set to 30, 60, 90, or 120 minutes.
Energy Mode: The Energy Mode option lets you select the TV's level of
power consumption while the TV is turned off. You can choose between Low Power
or Fast Power On. The Low Power setting uses less energy, but the TV takes
longer to power up.
Internal Fans: Internal cooling fans maintain proper operating
temperatures inside the TV. It is normal to hear the fans when you first turn on
the TV and during quiet scenes while viewing the TV.
Remote Control
Illuminated Multi-Brand
Remote: The television comes supplied with a multi-brand IR remote control. The remote is pre-coded to
operate Mitsubishi and other manufacturer's components such as Cable Boxes, DTV
Receivers, Satellite Receivers, VCRs, DVR, Blu-ray players, DVD
Players/Recorders, A/V Receivers, Audio Amplifiers, and CD players. The remote
also features blue-back lit buttons that remain illuminated for 5 seconds when
you press a button on the remote.
NetCommand For HDMI Devices: The TV's remote can operate
some functions of compatible HDMI devices able to receive commands through the
HDMI cable without any setup. For example, compatible A/V receiver's connected
via HDMI will power on with the Television's remote control and automatically
switch inputs to the correct audio input when you select an audio/video device
in the TV's Input Selection menu. NetCommand also allows the TV's remote control
to operate Play, Pause, Stop, Record, Search and Menu functions of compatible
VCRs, DVD players and DVRs via HDMI connection.
NetCommand IR: The NetCommand IR feature provides
on-screen control of analog-connected products such as your AV receiver, DVD
player, satellite receiver and/or VCR. To set it up, you simply "tell" the TV
what products are connected and "teach it" their IR (infrared) commands. The
TV's remote will then take control through the TV's NetCommand system,
eliminating the clutter of all those other remote controls. It's capable of
learning most IR remote control codes from standard home theater product, rather
than relying on a pre-programmed library of codes. The TV comes supplied with a
9' IR emitter cable that features 4 IR blasters for 4 controllable audio/video
components and a male mini-jack connector that plugs into the back of the
television. Netcommand's IR blasters can also be used to control scheduled
recordings of other connected audio/video devices.
Input and
Output Notes
Easy
Connect: The TV's Easy
Connect feature automatically recognizes when you plug in an input and prompts
you to assign a name to it. The TV ignores any unused inputs, so the result is an
uncluttered Input Selection menu where you can easily find and select connected
devices by name.
High Definition Video
Inputs: The TV offers High Definition
HDMI (1080p) and Component Video (1080i) inputs.
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Component Video: Three component video inputs
(1 side/2 rear) that support analog
transfer of 480i, 480p, 720p and 1080i video signals (composite video can
also be connected to the Video/Y jack of the component input on the
side-panel and the component video 1 input on the rear-panel).
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HDMI: Four rear-panel HDMI version 1.3 inputs that accept digital 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i,
and 1080p (including 24 Hz) video signals plus PCM digital stereo signals, the HDMI inputs can also accept a variety of PC
signals and resolutions. The rear-panel HDMI inputs have a shared left and
right RCA audio connection. With an HDMI-to-DVI cable, you can connect the
TV to a DVI-equipped A/V component. When connecting to a DVI-equipped
component, the RCA audio inputs are used and separate RCA audio cable must
be connected.
Digital Audio Output: The TV
features a coaxial digital output for transfer of a Dolby Digital or PCM stereo signals to
your home theater receiver. Audio from analog broadcasts and sources is
converted to PCM by the TV.
Analog Audio Output: The TV features a stereo RCA output to send
analog audio to and analog A/V surround sound receiver or stereo system. The
audio right (red) jack can also be used for headphones that accept standard
line-level audio signals.
USB Port: A USB photo port is located on the side-panel
of the television for viewing JPEG images from your connected digital camera or
USB thumb drive. A USB cable is not supplied.
Dual Antenna Inputs: The television features two 75-ohm
F-connector RF antenna/cable inputs that can each receive digital and analog
over-the-air channels from a VHF/UHF antenna or non-encrypted digital and analog
cable channels.
RS-232C: Use the rear-panel RS-232C port to receive
control signal from compatible home-theater control devices.
Stand and Wall-Mount
Requirements
Pedestal Stand: The Mitsubishi LaserVue DLP features an integrated
pedestal stand so you can place the television conveniently on a stand or shelf.
Mitsubishi offers a custom stand (LFB-65, sold separately) for this television.
Wall Mount: The Mitsubishi L65-A90 's integrated pedestal stand can be
removed so you can wall mount the television using a custom wall-mount kit
(LWM-65, sold separately) from Mitsubishi.
Note: You cannot wall-mount this television using other
manufacturer's wall-mount brackets.