Optimum Mode? Sounds exactly like what my Samsung has...called Auto Power Saving Mode. It changes the light from the display based on the light in the room. Appears to be the same to me...
true, but auto power save mode sounds cheap, and elite sounds rich bastard money grabbingly expensive.
reminds me of when i was buying some speakers, the guy was touting how the amp he was using (£800 denon) could autocalculate the centre of the room with microphones and it was way better than my £200 yamaha, which I'm sure it was until i said 'oh yeah, I've got a microphone thing too, works really well, sounds amazing'. he wasn't impressed I'd broken his sales pitch on his assumption that anything under £400 he didn't sell clearly was inferior.
They are amazing sets, but definitely not worth the price they demand for them. And most consumers in the world feel the same way, considering Pioneer is like #6 in sales.
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Josh @ May 7th 2008 9:32AM
Optimum Mode? Sounds exactly like what my Samsung has...called Auto Power Saving Mode. It changes the light from the display based on the light in the room. Appears to be the same to me...
Loban @ May 7th 2008 12:00PM
Perhaps, but this is a Pioneer KURO. Please don't try to convince anyone that Samsung is even in the same class as a KURO.
fraz @ May 7th 2008 9:55AM
true, but auto power save mode sounds cheap, and elite sounds rich bastard money grabbingly expensive.
reminds me of when i was buying some speakers, the guy was touting how the amp he was using (£800 denon) could autocalculate the centre of the room with microphones and it was way better than my £200 yamaha, which I'm sure it was until i said 'oh yeah, I've got a microphone thing too, works really well, sounds amazing'. he wasn't impressed I'd broken his sales pitch on his assumption that anything under £400 he didn't sell clearly was inferior.
Joshua @ May 7th 2008 1:30PM
@Loban
Very good? Yes...
Better than Samsung and Panasonic? Yes...
Worth the money? No...
They are amazing sets, but definitely not worth the price they demand for them. And most consumers in the world feel the same way, considering Pioneer is like #6 in sales.