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  UniPhier®
  Precise Digital Video
  • PHL Reference Chroma Processor
  • P4HD
  • HDMI™ V.1.3 with Deep Color
  • 1080/24p Playback
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* This product information is available only for the European model.

UniPhier

Combining a PHL Reference Chroma Processor with advanced P4HD imaging technology, Panasonic's original digital consumer electronics integration platform, UniPhier® reproduces crisp, natural colors that are extremely faithful to the original movie. The beautiful images are complemented by an exceptionally pure, accurate sound achieved through Audio Re-master and other leading-edge sound technologies. UniPhier® reflects the advanced encoding and authoring technologies developed by Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory (PHL) in collaboration with film industry professionals. With UniPhier® at its heart, the DMP-BD50 provides a level of image and sound quality that meets Hollywood's stringent demands – so you experience movies just the way they were meant to be experienced.

* UniPhier is a trademark/a registered trade mark of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. in Japan and other countries.
  UniPhier




Precise Digital Video

PHL Reference Chroma Processor
The PHL Reference Chroma Processor up-samples (4:2:0 to 4:2:2) the color information in decoded video signals. Using unique Panasonic technology, this innovative circuit faithfully reproduces the fine details and nuances of Blu-ray video streams that have been recorded with high quality image compression system. It generates images with all the clarity and depth that BD-Video movies have to offer.  
P4HD (Pixel Precision Progressive Processing)
P4HD processes more than 15 billion pixels per second and applies the optimal processing to every pixel. So that it can render progressive images superbly, expresses motion smoothly, and draws crisp diagonal lines.

P4HD
Precise Pixel Generation
BD-Video supports a number of formats. For example, the highest-quality format (1920 x 1080 pixels) can be recorded at any of four different frame rates - 59.94i, 50i, 23.976p and 24p - and the compression format can be MPEG2, MPEG4 AVC or VC-1. The BD-Video player must detect these instantly and perform progressive conversion when necessary. Both for the de-interlacing and scaling, the DMP-BD50's super-high-speed P4HD generates each pixel correctly according to information obtained from up to 60 surrounding pixels. Applying progressive processing to huge amounts of data, it delivers images of striking beauty.

16-Level Motion Detection with Pixel-Based Motion Adaptive
For optimum progressive conversion, the processing must suit the motion of the image. The super-high-speed P4HD categorizes the image motion of each pixel into one of 16 levels, from stationary to super fast. For areas with stationary images, it applies the progressive processing best suited to still images. In other areas it applies processing that matches the degree of motion. The results are stunningly beautiful progressive images with minimum conversion errors.

Diagonal Processing
The ability to create smooth, sharp diagonal lines is a key in progressive conversion.
The P4HD quickly detects diagonals and applies correction to the pixels accordingly. In reproducing the kinds of geometric patterns often seen in architecture, for example, the DMP-BD50 provides exceptionally smooth, sharp diagonal lines whether the image is still or moving.

Detection of 3:2/2:2 Pull-Down Progressive Processing
The P4HD instantly determines whether a source is film or video and optimizes the processing accordingly. Applying 3:2/2:2 with movie software, it makes images look natural and true to life.

1080p* Up-Conversion
When playing a BD-Video or DVD disc, the P4HD up-converts content recorded in the 576i/p, or 720p format to 1080p with Precise Pixel Generation that generates each pixel from 60 surrounding pixels of information. You enjoy superb 1080p-level image quality.
* HDMI connection required.
HDMI™ V.1.3 with Deep Colour *

The DMP-BD50 is Deep Colour ready, which means they can reproduce images with 12-bit, 4,096-step gradation. You enjoy exceptionally rich, natural-looking colours, with smooth, detailed gradation and minimal colour banding.

* The TV must also be Deep Colour compatible. Other TVs will display 8-bit, 256-step grad




1080/24p Playback

The DMP-BD50 provides 1080/24p output (via HDMI) for Blu-ray titles and DVD titles*. It reproduces movie images from a Blu-ray Disc in their original 24p form, with no need for conversion. You see movies in the same format used in movie theaters.

* 1080/24p output for DVD titles is only available for discs in North America.

1080/24p Playback

 

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