Pioneer Corp had already announced their ‘pulling out’ from plasma display industry in the very beginning of this year. Many were surprised for the withdrawal of Pioneer from the plasma television market, as Pioneer was reigning the plasma industry as an undisputed king! With Pioneer’s quit, many television pundits predicted the pathetic end of Plasma and some other brands like Vizio and NEC also announced their restructured strategy to be quit from plasma industry and to focus more on LCD televisions. After first April, Pioneer will produce only the limited edition KURO plasma television dubbed Pioneer KURO KRP 500A 50” Plasma Television and Pioneer KURO KRP 600A 60” Plasma Television.

Only 3000 units of limited edition KURO Plasma televisions will be manufactured, and once it is done no more plasma screens will be produced by Pioneer. The limited edition KURO series are Though the plasma screen production is ceased, Pioneer has reassured the customers that they will support their plasma products full-fledged and the Pioneer officials affirmed that they are maintaining eight years stock inventory too. This wipes out all questions about the maintainability and support of the “already sold” KURO televisions.

Though Pioneer is withdrawing from the plasma display manufacturing, all of us are pretty sure about the possibility of Pioneer technology re-appearing in some other forms in other plasma televisions. Pioneer has already developed a technology codenamed “Fuga”, and it is the latest slice in the picture processing wizardry of Pioneer Corp. Fuga handles the low quality input signals, and processes it intensely to render the best quality images. However the technology leaves the high resolution, superior video inputs untouched to maintain the naturality in the image rendition.

KURO Plasma Televisions are recognised as one among the finest plasma displays in the world, and it is sad that the KURO line-up production are about to cease! Pioneer Officials have made clear that the warranties remain unaffected, and full support for the products including spares, software and support engineering support are stocked by the organisation as the pre-withdrawal measure. This could be the last chance to own the king display in the global plasma television industry. For those who have KURO plasma displays in their wish list, it is the best time to own their dream display as the rates are slashed down compared to the launch price of Pioneer KRP displays.