A plasma display panel is essentially just a giant computer monitor, which needs sources connected to it in order to display a picture. The E-Box provides a convenient way to manage your many home-entertainment audio and video sources. Among the features it extends to your display is two-tuner, split-window PIP (picture-in-picture) so you can watch two programs simultaneously, or watch one while recording the other to a PVR, DVD, or videocassette.

Line doubling with Digital Natural Motion (480p/1080i) brings interlaced sources like VCRs and non-progressive-scanning DVD players into the digital realm. Active Control Plus+ is a unique, intelligent, and proactive control system that continuously measures and analyzes the incoming signal 60 times per second to automatically and continually adjust picture settings for optimal quality. Just as importantly, Active Control Plus+ also uses a sensor to adjust for ambient room light, so as the room gets brighter, so will your picture.

When black bars are present on screen (either on the sides or the top and bottom), a feature called APAC (Automatic Phosphor Aging Compensation) imperceptibly moves the picture up and down or back and forth to help prevent the dreaded screen burn-in. Think of APAC as a screen saver for your plasma monitor. The E-Box also gives you seven viewing modes to provide broad choices in how you watch your programming. The format modes are: 4:3, Movie Expand 14:9, Movie Expand 16:9, Movie Expand 16:9 with subtitling, Super Wide, Widescreen, and Auto Format.

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