Hands-on with the Pioneer 9mm-thick Kuro plasma

Engadget had the chance to get up close and personal with the recently-announced 9mm-thick Kuro plasma concept at CES, with Paul Meyhoefer, VP of Marketing and Product Planning, and Tony Ueda, Worldwide Manager of Display Technology, demoing at the Pioneer booth the night before the show floor opens. Pioneer gave the grand tour of two new technology concepts, with "advanced design" and "extreme contrast" displays. Pioneer has always claimed to target the high-end home theater enthusiast, and this 50-inch Kuro concept plasma shows that off in spades, being 9mm (0.35 inches) thick at the glass and only 24mm (0.94 inches) thick at its widest point. As seen in our gallery below, there is not even a hint of input ports or other distractions from its 40 pounds of sexy svelteness. We held up a BlackBerry Curve 8320 next to the plasma's glass, and dwarfed it with a whopping 15.5mm (0.6 inches) of depth.

Hands-on with the Pioneer 9mm-thick Kuro plasma

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 7th 2008 2:35AM]

It would have been super great to have gotten a video of the presentation and especially the audience's reactions.

Did they gasp or shout their approval? Don't leave us in suspense - how did they react upon first seeing this vision of lovliness.

[palehorse Posted Jan 10th 2008 3:52PM]

I'll take 2

[danhawk911 Posted Jan 13th 2008 7:37PM]

any news if the tuner box i built in?

[palehorse Posted Jan 13th 2008 8:23PM]

I believe the Kuro Elites are still using the separate media box... but I could be wrong. At 24mm thick in the widest section, I highly doubt they included everything in this set. In all likelihood, it has one connector to the media box, and one power chord.

But again, I could be wrong!