Toshiba delivers in its projection televisions a truly cinematic experience you are looking for. TheaterView projection TVs bring superb picture and sound quality and cutting-edge features right into your home. Toshiba's renowned engineering expertise guarantees vivid, true-to-life video and audio.50A61 features Multi Linear Digital Convergence system that provides virtually perfect corner-to-corner convergence for the best possible focus, and superior picture quality. TheaterBright screen, utilizing a double-lenticular (two-lens) configuration, is tinted for increased contrast, and incorporates a surface layer diffuser (SLD), which concentrates the tinting on a thinner layer of the surface of the screen. The result is a high-resolution, high-brightness screen with a wide 160-degree viewing angle for use in any room. Built-in high-contrast TheaterShield acrylic shield protects the screen. Unlike some standard shields, the TheaterShield incorporates a special hard coat to resist scratching. Toshiba's TheaterView TVs are designed to offer the ultimate in image quality from all video sources. Unique image-enhancing technology called Cinema Mode (3:2 pull-down detection and compensation) delivers the most realistic and detailed reconstruction of film-based (24fps) video content such as DVD movies. Flesh tone control corrects phase deficiencies in the broadcast signal. Color detail enhancement circuit improves picture detail and reduces color video noise. 50A61 also offers picture-in-picture audio output. For more powerful and realistic home theater audio, it features Stable Sound, that automatically monitors volume levels and ensures that audio levels remain consistent during commercials or when a viewer is changing channels.

This widescreen 50-inch powerhouse packs everything from generous AV inputs to Toshiba's latest high-tech video innovations (including two-tuner, multiwindow picture-in-picture). The quality starts with a wideband video amplifier, works its way through the set's extensive lens system (including PowerFocus Plus CRTs and a five-element lens with Multilinear Digital Convergence and Multilinear Digital Focus), and manifests itself onscreen through a three-line digital comb filter with vertical contour correction, velocity scan modulation, and 900 lines of horizontal resolution. Can you say "HDTV ready"?

Among the 50A61's other image-enhancing features are flesh-tone correction and a color-detail enhancer, video noise reduction, black-level expansion, and color-temperature control (warm, medium, and cool).

This Cinema Series television uses Toshiba's TheaterShield Plus, an improved version of the acrylic shield the company uses to protect its screens. Standard TheaterShield incorporates a special hard coat to resist scratching, while TheaterShield Plus adds an antireflective layer to the surfaces of the shield. This additional layer reduces reflectivity by over 50 percent and improves the set's overall contrast.

Working in tandem with TheaterShield Plus is Toshiba's TheaterBright technology, which--between improvements to the projection lens and the screen--grants a wide, 160-degree viewing angle for use in any room. TheaterBright uses a double lenticular (two-lens) projection configuration, combining a Fresnel lens and a fine-pitch (0.72 millimeter) BlackStripe screen. The screen is tinted for increased contrast, and Toshiba has incorporated a surface layer diffuser, which concentrates the tinting on a thinner layer of the screen's surface. The result is a high-resolution, high-brightness, and--with TheaterShield Plus--high-contrast screen.

In the audio department, the set works either as a monitor in conjunction with your surround receiver and speakers, or as a self-contained audio-video entity, boasting 15 watts per channel through front-firing stereo speakers. Toshiba's Sub Bass System (SBS) ensures dramatic low-end performance with movies and music videos, and MTS Stereo/SAP (with dbx surround sound) delivers impressive broadcast audio. A center-channel audio input lets you enjoy 5.1-channel surround even if you have surround speakers but lack external front left, center, and right speakers. You'll also enjoy: variable audio outputs, PIP sound, and Stable Sound for minimizing the garish level hikes when the station cuts to a commercial break.

Other conveniences include an illuminated (backlit) AV universal remote control, color-icon trilingual onscreen display, direct video input selection, Movie and Sports modes, individual AV settings for inputs, Favorite Channel, and V-chip parental control.