Akai PT4299HD 42-Inch Widescreen HD-Ready Rear-Projection TV
- 42-inch HD-ready rear-projection TV
- Progressive-scan converter brings interlaced (480i) signals to progressive (480p) resolution
- 15 watts per channel stereo sound with BBE sound enhancement
- 3-line digital comb filter removes blurred edges between colors and reduces dot crawl
- Offers dual HD-capable component-video inputs and translucent onscreen display
Akai is a company with a long history of innovation and leadership in the fields of audio and video consumer electronics. For the past decades, Akai has been a major factor in the electronics industry. From its early days of dominant marketshare in the reel-to-reel recording industry, to modern day state of the art home entertainment systems, Akai continues to be a leader in the consumer electronics industry.PRODUCT FEATURES:Table top model;Progressive Scan Converter;1080i HDTV monitor performance with add-on HDTV tuner;3D Y/C Digital Comb Filter;30-watt BBE stereo audio system;Dual HDTV component video inputs;Translucent on-screen display (OSD) system. Turn your dreams of big-screen sports and lifelike movies into reality with Akai’s surprisingly affordable PT4299HD projection TV. This giant, 42-inch set offers a widescreen image perfectly formatted for the latest high-definition broadcasts and your favorite DVD movies. The screen accepts full 1080i HD images from DTV set-top receiver
List Price: $ 1,099.99
Price: $ 1,099.99
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LilOrphan67 “lilorphanannie”
September 8, 2011
Sleek, slim, great price!,
When the cable guy walked past our nearly decade old Magnavox 27 inch tv and nonchalantly announced its impending demise, it was time to venture into the brave new world of tv technology: crt, plasma dlp, lcd…hearing about all the new “idiot box” advances made me feel like I was on lsd. As if that weren’t bad enough, whatever we bought had to fit in the Arhaus armoire (last year’s tax purchase) that’s only 21 inches deep. Finally, we found the Akai. With its 42 inch screen, it’s a big upgrade from the old set, and a nice transition set while waiting for DLP, Plasma and LCD to get lower in price and iron-out the kinks. At $799 through HH Gregg and Circuit City during sales, it’s not gonna break the bank, either.
Pluses: fits where others don’t, tweaking the factory presets results in a picture quality that rivals its more expensive, big name counterparts, intuitive menus and remote, no glare. Basically a rebadged Samsung, without PIP.
Minuses: none of the traditional necessary inputs for HDTV. If you want to get HD, you’ll need a tuner or digital cable box with built-in tuner, no lenticular cover (the lens screen is particularly fragile and needs careful cleaning), should be on matching stand for best light distribution, sound quality requires a home theater set.
But if you’re happy with a larger screen that offers crisp, clear, bright and detailed images when using prog scan DVD players or watching channels like HBO that are truly digital, the Akai’s not a bad choice. Especially for the technophobic and budget-minded.
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|Boss band “Bob”
September 8, 2011
Great size & excellent HDTV & DVD picture for the price,
Looked at Plasmas & LCD’s -this Akai has much better contrast and blacks and half the price. It’s a rear projection CRT-no bulbs to change like DLP’s. If you have the room, it’s not bad looking either. Only 21″ deep and 89 lbs is not bad compared to large 200lb. direct view CRTs. TV should be at eye level or slightly above and 10 -15′ from viewer with low or no lights on for best picture. I put it on a sturdy coffee tabe. Akai was known in past for high quality audio components like reel to reel, may now be made by Samsung. Color saturation & balance was excellent out of box. 4 picture modes are available, I found Custom & Standard best to tweak picture with, I found cutting down on sharpness & contrast got a nicer, smoother picture. Hooked up to Charter HD cable box with monster DVI cables & DVD with component cables- gets excellent HDTV & DVD picture, from side angles as well. Hoping for more HD channels to become available as analog (non HD) picture quality is lousy when in DVI input mode as it has to be in “stretch mode” on cable box to fill the whole screen. These 480 or lower broadcasts show 4:3 black bars on side which worries me for burn in problems. I heard that the first 100 hrs of use are most critical to avoid burn in on RPCRTs. Using the TV as the tuner rather than cable box and using its “panorama” option fixes this better though and significantly improves an analog- source picture to “good.” Watching sports or anything else in HD is awesome though as monitor displays 1080 input from most of those. Picture seems to get even better as the TV warms up. Very good remote as well. It’s S-Video input is essential for decent VCR use. Kmart is clearing these out now for $810 and a very reasonable extra 2 yr protection plan for 50$. For about $900 total with taxes, combined with my surround sound system ( built in sound from TV is very good, by the way), I have a pretty decent theater in my basement!
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